Rushdie’s first thought on attempted assassin: ‘So it’s you’

Salman Rushdie, targeted for assassination since 1989 over his writing, had long wondered who would kill him. When he was stabbed almost fatally, his first thought was, “So it’s you.”The novelist has recounted his thoughts on his 2022 near death in a book, “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder,” which is set for publication on Tuesday.In an excerpt from the book which he read for the CBS News show “60 Minutes,” Rushdie described “the last thing my right eye would ever see” — a man in black clothes “coming in hard and low” like a “squat missile.””I confess, I had sometimes imagined…