At the Paddington Hotel in London, a book bomb was being prepared by Mustafah Mahmound Mazeh in order to attempt to assassinate Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie, but the bomb went off prematurely, effectively killing Mazeh and destroying two floors of the Hotel.
From:
http://www.salmanrushdie.net/ Translator of 'Satanic Verses' Slain
July 13, 1991
LESLIE HELM, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The Japanese scholar who translated Salman Rushdie's controversial novel "The Satanic Verses" was found stabbed to death Friday morning.
The body of Hitoshi Igarashi, 44, an assistant professor of comparative Islamic culture at Tsukuba University, northeast of Tokyo, was discovered by a cleaning lady in the hallway of a campus building. Igarashi's body bore a deep knife wound in the neck and cuts on the hands and face, police said, adding that he was killed Thursday night or early Friday.
Police said they have no suspects but are investigating the possibility that the stabbing was related to Igarashi's translation, which appeared in Japan in early 1990.
In what may be a related incident, Ettore Capriolo, 61, the translator of the Italian version of "The Satanic Verses," was attacked July 3 at his Milan apartment, suffering knife wounds on his neck, chest and hands. The attacker escaped.
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"The Satanic Verses" gained prominence in 1989 when Iran's supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, denounced Rushdie's novel as blasphemy, sentenced the author to death and offered a $1-million reward to anyone who killed him.
From:
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-07-13/news/mn-1822_1_satanic-verses
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