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Salman Rushdie Upstate New York A man accused of stabbing in a
Hadi Matar, 24, admitted in a video interview from behind bars at Chautauqua County Jail where he is being held on charges of attempted murder and assault. rice field. ``I read a few pages. He said of reading the controversial novel by Mr. Rushdie, who placed a fatwa in the 1980s and ordered Muslims to kill him.