Christopher Hitchens speaking in 2007 at The Amazing Meeting 5 (TAM5) conference in Las Vegas. -born author, journalist and political commentator  has died yesterday aged 62 at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in  , , following a diagnosis of esophageal cancer in June 2010. In more recent years, Hitchens sided with  in supporting the war in Iraq, and also went on to write a polemical book on religion, , following a theme apparent in his earlier debunking efforts towards —"a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud" according to Hitchens. The death of raised Hitchens' ire, stating that it is "a shame that there is no hell for Falwell to go to" and calling him a "faith-based fraud".
Christopher Hitchens speaking in 2007 at The Amazing Meeting 5 (TAM5) conference in Las Vegas. British-born author, journalist and political commentator Christopher Hitchens has died yesterday aged 62 at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas , following a diagnosis of esophageal cancer in June 2010. In more recent years, Hitchens sided with George W. Bush in supporting the war in Iraq, and also went on to write a polemical book on religion, , following a theme apparent in his earlier debunking efforts towards —"a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud" according to Hitchens. The death of raised Hitchens' ire, stating that it is "a shame that there is no hell for Falwell to go to" and calling him a "faith-based fraud".
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Christopher Hitchens
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Houston, Texas
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George W. Bush