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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>COUNTERPUNCH EXCLUSIVE!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>THE WAR CRIMES OF CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The criminal saga of Christopher Hitchens
continues. A source close to CounterPunch says that Hitchens was in Thanh Phong
the night Bob Kerrey and his squad killed women and children at pointblank
range. The source, who wishes to remain anonymous, says that Hitchens was part
of a short-lived CIA program called FOC -- Friends Of Charlie (also known as
Fucking Over Charlie) -- in which Western students posing as Marxist
sympathizers of the NLF were flown to Hanoi and sent southward to mix with those
forces resisting US aggression. The idea was to locate key NLF staging areas so
that Phoenix Program operatives could better do their jobs. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hitchens, then 20 years old, was apparently one of
the better spies. Like the Beltway snitch he would later become, Hitchens used
his considerable charm and supposed "revolutionary" fervor to win the trust of
NLF regulars. He would then rat them out to undercover US hit squads and collect
a sizable fee for his efforts. According our source, Hitchens sat back as Kerrey
and his men performed their grisly actions, smoking cigarettes and looking at
his watch. He later told US intelligence of other NLF outposts, then left the
country to return to England, not knowing and not caring how many Vietnamese
civilians were killed in his wake.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>FOC didn't last long, but those who served in it
are well known. Serving alongside Hitchens were David Horowitz and Ronald
Radosh, both of whom came out of the closet years before Hitchens partially
dropped his cover. Indeed, during Clinton's impeachment drama, Hitchens reunited
with his old buddy Horowitz by speaking before a crowd of Horowitz's friends and
followers, urging them on with pre-scripted anti-Clinton rants. That he now has
a book out criticizing Kissinger for his war crimes is part of the ongoing
cover. Let a little out here, as with the Clinton book, then dodge back a little
there, as with Kissinger. His dance of deceit continues with his supposed mea
culpa regarding Kerrey in the Nation. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>None of this fools CounterPunch. And after our
first reports citing Hitchens's apologia on behalf of Kerrey (which now makes
perfect sense), CounterPunch has been deluged with testimony of those who say
that Hitchens was also involved with the Kwangju and El Mozote massacres. Then
there is the report of Hitchens at a KLA roadblock last November, when the
snitch looked on as a KLA soldier beat to death an elderly Serb woman with the
butt of his rifle. According to this eyewitness (an employee of CNN), Hitchens
leaned against a jeep and applauded, cigarette dangling from his rouged lips.
"Put your shoulder into it, dear boy," he allegedly said, encouraging the
soldier. Hitchens then rewarded the KLA squad with cartons of Rothman Blues, his
personal brand. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As days go by it becomes ever so clear that the
days of Christopher Hitchens, "truth-teller," are numbered. </FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2><STRONG>CP</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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