UPDATE: Hitchens' fellow traveler, Michael Totten, gives the full blow-by-blow of the attack, including photos of the sign defaced by Hitchens, and recounting how a Lebanese policeman refused to help them moments before the impending ambush and how they, along with journalist Jonathan Foreman, fled from the mob in a taxi.
Here is an excerpt of Totten's account of the attack:
We knew it, too, because six or seven furious men showed up all at once and faced us in the...
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