Christopher Hitchens and the Battle of Beirut

This is the kind of thing that infuriates me. 

http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2009/02/christopher-hit.php

For anyone who ever plans to travel to country where the facist thugs are more powerful than the police, be wise and keep your mouth shut. They're lucky they're not dead. All Lebanese militia groups maintain very fast-acting mobile kidnapping squads.