Salman Rushdie attacker says he's 'surprised' author survived
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Hadi Matar, the 24-year-old who attacked author Salman Rushdie last week, admitted during an interview from prison that he intended to kill the writer and is surprised he lived.
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Matar went on to admit he had not actually read Rushdie's book at the source of the controversy, "The Satanic Verses."
"I read a couple pages. I didn’t read the whole thing cover to cover," he said.
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