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Salman Rushdie Bounty Increased to $3.3 Million

Description:An Iranian leader has announced that the reward for killing the British author Salman Rushdie is back on the table. Ayatollah Hassan Sanei is using the recent outrage over a film that insults the Islamic prophet Mohammed to reinstate the bounty that was put on Rushdie’s life after the publishing of his 1989 novel. ‘The Satanic Verses’ was deemed blasphemous towards the Muslim religion. (1:14)

Source: GeoBeats

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