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Author Salman Rushdie on ventilator after New York stabbing

Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) A police officer, center, carries out a bag from the amphitheater after author Salman Rushdie was attacked during a lecture, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., about 75 miles (120 km) south of Buffalo. (AP Photo/Joshua Goodman) Lebanese boys ride their ATV in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Workers clean a street in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A police officer, center, carries out a bag from the amphitheater after author Salman Rushdie was attacked during a lecture, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., about 75 miles (120 km) south of Buffalo. (AP Photo/Joshua Goodman) Lebanese boys ride their ATV in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Workers clean a street in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A police officer, center, carries out a bag from the amphitheater after author Salman Rushdie was attacked during a lecture, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., about 75 miles (120 km) south of Buffalo. (AP Photo/Joshua Goodman) Lebanese boys ride their ATV in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Workers clean a street in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A police officer, center, carries out a bag from the amphitheater after author Salman Rushdie was attacked during a lecture, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., about 75 miles (120 km) south of Buffalo. (AP Photo/Joshua Goodman) Lebanese boys ride their ATV in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Workers clean a street in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A police officer, center, carries out a bag from the amphitheater after author Salman Rushdie was attacked during a lecture, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., about 75 miles (120 km) south of Buffalo. (AP Photo/Joshua Goodman) Lebanese boys ride their ATV in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Workers clean a street in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A police officer, center, carries out a bag from the amphitheater after author Salman Rushdie was attacked during a lecture, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., about 75 miles (120 km) south of Buffalo. (AP Photo/Joshua Goodman) Lebanese boys ride their ATV in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Workers clean a street in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A police officer, center, carries out a bag from the amphitheater after author Salman Rushdie was attacked during a lecture, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., about 75 miles (120 km) south of Buffalo. (AP Photo/Joshua Goodman) Lebanese boys ride their ATV in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Workers clean a street in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A police officer, center, carries out a bag from the amphitheater after author Salman Rushdie was attacked during a lecture, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., about 75 miles (120 km) south of Buffalo. (AP Photo/Joshua Goodman) Lebanese boys ride their ATV in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Workers clean a street in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A police officer, center, carries out a bag from the amphitheater after author Salman Rushdie was attacked during a lecture, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., about 75 miles (120 km) south of Buffalo. (AP Photo/Joshua Goodman) Lebanese boys ride their ATV in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Workers clean a street in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A police officer, center, carries out a bag from the amphitheater after author Salman Rushdie was attacked during a lecture, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., about 75 miles (120 km) south of Buffalo. (AP Photo/Joshua Goodman) Lebanese boys ride their ATV in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Workers clean a street in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A police officer, center, carries out a bag from the amphitheater after author Salman Rushdie was attacked during a lecture, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., about 75 miles (120 km) south of Buffalo. (AP Photo/Joshua Goodman) Lebanese boys ride their ATV in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Workers clean a street in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A police officer, center, carries out a bag from the amphitheater after author Salman Rushdie was attacked during a lecture, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., about 75 miles (120 km) south of Buffalo. (AP Photo/Joshua Goodman) Lebanese boys ride their ATV in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Workers clean a street in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A police officer, center, carries out a bag from the amphitheater after author Salman Rushdie was attacked during a lecture, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., about 75 miles (120 km) south of Buffalo. (AP Photo/Joshua Goodman) Lebanese boys ride their ATV in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Workers clean a street in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A police officer, center, carries out a bag from the amphitheater after author Salman Rushdie was attacked during a lecture, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., about 75 miles (120 km) south of Buffalo. (AP Photo/Joshua Goodman) Lebanese boys ride their ATV in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Workers clean a street in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A police officer, center, carries out a bag from the amphitheater after author Salman Rushdie was attacked during a lecture, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., about 75 miles (120 km) south of Buffalo. (AP Photo/Joshua Goodman) Lebanese boys ride their ATV in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Workers clean a street in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A police officer, center, carries out a bag from the amphitheater after author Salman Rushdie was attacked during a lecture, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., about 75 miles (120 km) south of Buffalo. (AP Photo/Joshua Goodman) Lebanese boys ride their ATV in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Workers clean a street in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A police officer, center, carries out a bag from the amphitheater after author Salman Rushdie was attacked during a lecture, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., about 75 miles (120 km) south of Buffalo. (AP Photo/Joshua Goodman) Lebanese boys ride their ATV in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Flowers bloom outside the Chautauqua Institution welcome center in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Workers clean a street in front of posters that show from left, the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the late Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) The front pages of the Aug. 13 edition of the Iranian newspapers, Vatan-e Emrooz, front, with title reading in Farsi: "Knife in the neck of Salman Rushdie," and Hamshahri, rear, with title: "Attack on writer of Satanic Verses," are pictured in Tehran Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses” drew death threats from Iran’s leader in the 1980s, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen Friday by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lecture in western New York. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) ADDS NAME OF DETAINED PERSON This still image from video shows Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, N.J., at left, being escorted from the stage as people tend to author Salman Rushdie, center right, at the Chautauqua Institution, in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by Matar who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture in western New York. (AP Photo) ADDS NAME OF DETAINED PERSON Law enforcement officers detain Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, N.J., outside the Chautauqua Institution, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, in Chautauqua, N.Y.. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by Matar who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the institute in western New York. (Charles Fox via AP) Local police and FBI block the area around the home of Hadi Matar on Morningside Avenue, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, in Fairview, N.J. Matar rushed a stage and stabbed Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" drew death threats from Iran in the 1980s, as the author was about to give a lecture in western New York earlier today. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey) A person makes a call outside the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) Law enforcement stand watch outside at the Chautauqua Institution after author Salman Rushdie was attacked during a lecture, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, in Chautauqua, N.Y., about 75 miles (120 km) south of Buffalo. (AP Photo/Joshua Goodman) An officer stands outside a gate of the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) An officer with the Chautauqua Sheriff's Department speaks to a person at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) An officer stands outside a gate of the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) FILE - Salman Rushdie attends the 68th National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner on Nov. 15, 2017, in New York. Rushdie was attacked while giving a lecture in western New York. An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man storm the stage Friday at the Chautauqua Institution as Rushdie was being introduced. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File) FILE - Author Salman Rushdie appears during the Mississippi Book Festival in Jackson, Miss., on Aug. 18, 2018. Rushdie, whose writing led to death threats, has been attacked on stage at an event in western New York (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)