Rushdie Tells Trial of 'Lake of Blood' after Stabbing
This is Beirut, 11/02 17:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Novelist Salman Rushdie described Tuesday the moment a knife-wielding attacker stormed on stage and attempted to kill him with a frenzied attack that left him blind in one eye. "The Satanic Verses" author told jurors at the trial of his alleged attacker, 23-year-old American-Lebanese Hadi Matar, that Matar "was stabbing and slashing" at him. "I ...