i have no explanation for it. his attacker was at from new jersey who lived in his mother s basement he s believed to be a lone wolf. he s pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and is awaiting trial in an interview, he told the new york post, he d only read a couple of pages of the satanic verses and seen some clips of rushdie on youtube he said he didn t like him very much because rushdie had attacked islam, doesn t matter to you what his motive was. i mean, it s interesting to me because it s a mystery. if i had written a character who knew so little about his proposed victim. and yet was willing to commit the crime of murder. my publishers might well say to me that that s under motivated. you need to develop that character and not enough of a reason no, not convincing but yet that s what he did rushdie s knife, his 22nd book is one. he initially did not want to write. the was the last thing i
paramedics, flu rushdie to a hospital in erie, pennsylvania, 40 miles away, or team of doctors battle for eight hours to save his life when he finally came out of surgery, his wife, eliza, a poet and novelist, was waiting. and many wasn t moving and he was just laid out. he looked half that to you? yes. he did. he was a different color he was cold. i mean, his his face was staple. just staples holding his face together, kind of rushdie was on a ventilator, unable to speak. aliza and the doctors had no idea whether the knife that had penetrated his i had damaged his brain. someone from the staff said that we would use this system of wiggling the toes to communicate to communicate. do you remember the first question you ask to get a wiggle or i think i said some on its aliza. can you hear me and there was there was a wiggle and asked him, i think can you know where
this was my way of dealing with it it s been almost two years since the attack. and rushdie is back home now in new york, slowly getting used to navigating the world with one eye. how much time did it take to kinda readjust it? i m still doing. you still are? yeah. do you feel like you are a different person after the attack? differen but i do feel that it has left a shadow. i think that shadow is just there. and some days it s dark and some days it s not. you feel less than you were before? no. i just feel more of the presence of death in an interview almost 25 years ago, you said a of the fatwa. i want to find an end to this story. it is the one story i must find an n2 have you found that ending? and an ending to this story as well? i felt i had and then turned out i hadn t. i m hoping this is just last twitch of that story. i m i don t know. i ll let you know my
used to navigating the world with one eye. how much time did it take to readjust? it i m still doing it. you still are? yeah. do you feel like you are a different person after the attack? i don t feel i m very different, but i do feel that it has left a shadow. i think that shadow is just there. and some days it s dark and some days it s not. you feel less than you were before no. i just feel more of the presence of death in an interview almost 25 years ago, you said of the fada. i want to find an end to the story. it is the one story i must find an end to have you found that ending. and an ending to this story as well. i felt i had and then turned out i hadn t i m hoping this is just a last twitch of that story i don t know. i ll let you know. my interview with salman rushdie for 60 minutes. next, a new effort today in arizona s state legislature to repeal the state s civil war era near
he got one. oh, yes murphy s law if you lift as you wouldn t be in jail that woman is a wreck into deserves of compassion he sees the flight bound to just go easy on pregnant women pain means pause on the things you love. but brene means go cool the pain with bio free and keep on going bio freeze green means go as we wait here in tel aviv for israel s response to iran s missile and drone attack. i want to bring you my conversation with one of tehran s longest standing and best personal targets salman rushdie has been a marked man for nearly half his life. in 1989, iran is leader ayatollah khomeini declared his novel the satanic verses, blasphemous an insult to islam, and called for the indian born writers assassination rushdie went into