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Mr Matar’s lawyer, Nathaniel Barone, told the BBC his client plans to plead not guilty to the new charges. <\/p>\n

“We plan on zealously and feverishly defending him on these matters,” Mr Barone said, adding that his client maintains his innocence on all the charges brought against him. <\/p>\n

He has been held without bail since the attack. <\/p>\n

The indictment said Mr Matar attempted to provide “material support and resources” to Hezbollah, knowing it was a terrorist organization, but the document did not detail what evidence connected him to the group. <\/p>\n

Hezbollah is designated a terrorist organisation by Western states, Israel, Gulf Arab countries and the Arab League.<\/p>\n

It remains unclear exactly why the 26-year-old New Jersey resident attacked the famed British author, though he told, external<\/span> the New York Post, in an interview from jail, that he had watched videos of Sir Salman on YouTube. “I don’t like people who are disingenuous like that.”<\/p>\n

In an interview with the BBC earlier this year, Sir Salman recalled Mr Matar “sprinting up the stairs” and stabbing him 12 times. <\/p>\n

“I couldn’t have fought him,” he said of the attack that lasted 27 seconds. “I couldn’t have run away from him.”<\/p>\n

The attack left him in hospital for six weeks recovering from his injuries. <\/p>\n

Sir Salman’s memoir about the incident “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder” was released earlier this year. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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