[guitarplayer1953]

"British-born author Christopher Hitchens"

Then why put this in the first line of the story?

[Lib-Lickers 2]

maybe because he was born there and still has a British accent and he’s just recently become a US citizen(has duel citizenship)..this from the article

Hitchens was born in Britain, lives in Washington D.C., and retained his British citizenship when he also became an American citizen in 2007.