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Suspect in Salman Rushdie attack pleads not guilty

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Hadi Matar, 24, center, arrives for an arraignment in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, N.Y., Saturday, Aug. 13. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault.
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Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13.
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Hadi Matar, 24, listens while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, N.Y., Saturday, Aug. 13.
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Hadi Matar, 24, second from right, listens as his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, center, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13.
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Portraits of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are displayed at the entrance of the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from. On Friday, Matar, 24, born in Fairview, N.J., attacked author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in New York. His birth was a decade after "The Satanic Verses" was first published.
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A Lebanese youth walks next to portraits of killed Hezbollah fighters in the Lebanese-Israeli border village of Yaroun, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 13, where the parents of Hadi Matar emigrated from.
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People scan publications at a news stand in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Aug. 13. Salman Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses” drew death threats from Iran’s leader in the 1980s, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen Friday by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lecture in western New York.
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People gather at an evening vigil for author Salman Rushdie after was attacked, Friday Aug. 12, in Chautauqua, N.Y. Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" drew death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was stabbed as he was about to give a lecture in western New York earlier in the day.
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People gather at an evening vigil pray and observe a moment of silence after an attack on author Salman Rushdie, Friday Aug. 12, in Chautauqua, N.Y.

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