Salman Rushdie’s Attacker Is the Son of a Lebanese Goatherd

From the New York Times news section:

In Lebanon, the mayor of Yaroun, a village on the southern border with Israel,

That’s Hezbollah country.

said that Mr. Matar’s father lives there, and that authorities had been trying to reach him without success. The father lives in a stone house in the village’s center and tends to flocks of goats and sheep, the mayor, Ali Tehfe, said.

Our immigration system sure does a bang-up job of finding America only the highest potential human capital. Great job, everybody!