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February 14, 1989: The fatwa against Salman Rushdie
February 14, 1989: The fatwa against Salman Rushdie

Friday's knife attack on Salman Rushdie comes more than 33 years after the fatwa against him by Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in which he sentenced him to death. Until Friday's knife attack, he had very much resumed a normal life. ccd/jmy/br/kjm