Witnesses to the stabbing say that the suspect wore black clothing and a black mask during the attack on The Satanic Verses author in Buffalo on Friday. Hezbollah's logo is based on the IRGC's.Īccording to the Council on Foreign Relation's profile on Hezbollah: 'The Iran-backed group is driven by its opposition to Israel and its resistance to Western influence in the Middle East.' Since the 1980s, the IRGC have been linked to Hezbollah, offering training and funding to the primarily Lebanon-based terrorist organization. NBC New York reports that Mater's social media accounts showed that he was sympathetic to Shia causes, including supporting the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. While one of the group's most notorious figures was Imad Mughniyeh, who was killed in a CIA-linked assassination in Syria in 2008. The group's current leader is named Hassan Nasrallah. Both the first and second names are linked to infamous terrorist organization Hezbollah. That driver's license, which was was found on 24-year-old Hadi Mater bore the name Hassan Mughniyah.

The man accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie held a fake driver's license bearing the surname of an infamous Hezbollah commander, it has been claimed.

Wylie said 'the news is not good' and that, 'Salman will likely lose one eye the nerves in his arm were severed and his liver was stabbed and damaged'īy Andrea Cavallier and Emma James and Paul Farrell For Dailymail.Com.

Rushdie's agent Andrew Wylie provided an update on his condition shortly before 7 p.m.

A fake driver's license that was found on Matar when he was arrested contained the names of two Hezbollah commanders.

Law enforcement sources have said that Matar has sympathies to the Iranian regime and to the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah.

Rushdie was attacked by Hadi Matar, 24, who rushed the stage before 'punching and stabbing' the author multiple times in front of horrified witnesses at a literary fair in Chautauqua, New York, near Buffalo.

Salman Rushdie, 75, was stabbed up to 15 times, including in the neck and in the abdomen.

Man, 24, who stabbed Salman Rushdie had fake driver's license in name of HEZBOLLAH commander and praised Iran's Revolutionary Guard on social media: Author is on ventilator, will likely lose an eye, his arm nerves are severed and his liver damaged

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