Christopher Hitchens assaulted in Beirut.

[leo-rcc]

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/wor...40138.aspx

LONDON: As a professional provocateur and vocal supporter of the war in Iraq, Christopher Hitchens has been engaged in countless verbal punch-ups with his ideological opponents, most of them conducted from the safety of a television studio.

But when the author, broadcaster and journalist defaced a political poster in Beirut, he found himself at the wrong end of a bruising encounter that left him with a limp and nursing cuts and bruises.

I can't say I'm surprised. I'm more amazed it hasn't happened before.

[Edwardo Piet]

Ouch.

Lame.

Weak.

Yeah Leo, I see what you mean because there are a lot of angry people around and Hitchens is an anti-theist (not just an atheist). He's been around and he's pretty militant isn't he? No one quite like Hitchens. Been to 'all 3 of the axis of evil'. I guess I'm also surprised this hasn't happened before.

Its happened now though. Ouch. Not good.

EDIT: I read some of the article and its not good but less bad than I imagined (it seems). Could have been worse. But "could have been f*cking better!" as Lee Evans would say.