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Matar carried a fake driver's license in name of [[Hezbollah]]'s most notorious figures was [[Imad Mughniyeh]], who was killed in a CIA-linked assassination in Syria in 2008.<ref>Andrea Cavallier and Emma James and Paul Farrell, [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11108029/amp/Man-24-stabbed-Salman-Rushdie-fake-drivers-license-HEZBOLLAH-commander.html 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], ''Daily Mail'', Aug 13, 2022.</ref>
Matar carried a fake driver's license in name of [[Hezbollah]]'s most notorious figures was [[Imad Mughniyeh]], who was killed in a CIA-linked assassination in Syria in 2008.<ref>Andrea Cavallier and Emma James and Paul Farrell, [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11108029/amp/Man-24-stabbed-Salman-Rushdie-fake-drivers-license-HEZBOLLAH-commander.html 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], ''Daily Mail'', Aug 13, 2022.</ref>
Attacker's mother says her son "changed" after a trip to Lebanon in 2018.<ref name=mena/>
Hadi Matar had contact With Iran's Revolutionary Guard ([[IRGC]]).<ref>Mitchell Prothero, Salman Rushdie Stabbing Suspect 'Had Contact With Iran's Revolutionary Guard'], Vice, Aug 14, 2022.<blockquote>Intel officials told VICE World News Hadi Matar had been in contact with members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. ..
The 24-year-old man accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie had been in direct contact with members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on social media, European and Middle Eastern intelligence officials told VICE World News.
Hadi Matar has been charged with attempted murder after Rushdie, 75, was repeatedly stabbed on stage ahead of a speaking event in Chautauqua, New York, on Friday. On Sunday, Rushdie’s son Zafar Rushdie said his father was in a critical condition and had sustained “life-changing” injuries but had been taken off a ventilator and had been able to speak.
A NATO counterterrorism official from a European country said the stabbing had all the hallmarks of a “guided” attack, where an intelligence service talks a supporter into action, without direct support or involvement in the attack itself.
“Close scrutiny needs to be paid to his communications,” said the NATO official, who was not authorised to speak on the record. “More investigation will reveal more information on the exact nature of the links.”... Security officials who confirmed the social media contact would not elaborate on the nature of the communications because investigations are ongoing. They would not disclose who initiated the contact, when it took place, or what was discussed.
A Middle Eastern intelligence official said it was “clear” that at some point prior to the attack, Matar had been in contact with “people either directly involved with or adjacent to the Quds Force,” referring to the Revolutionary Guard’s external operations force...</blockquote></ref>
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