Just in case any listers are not aware Christopher Hitchens is a US based 
English journalist who is a great embarrassment to us on this side of the 
Atlantic, as we worry that people on the Virginia side of the Atlantic might 
take him seriously. He is an excellent polemicist who does a very good novelty 
act as the "English Neo-Con". 

Always worth reading but not to be taken too seriously. 

The same, I suggest, applies to the remarks of Ambassador Abd Al-Rahman. 
Convenient polemic to justify a reaction.