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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (23143)	4/2/2002 12:46:52 PM
From: DrGrabow	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

You got to have a toady to do your dirty work. The Israeli-allied Phalangists (Lebanese) went into the camps while the area was sealed off by Israeli tanks and soldiers. You can't go in, you can't go out. Sounds like Ramallah today. Lebanon's new president, Bashir Gemayel, was reluctant to rush into a peace treaty with Israel, but on September 12, he agreed to Israel's request that Phalangist forces eliminate the 2000 "terrorists" which Israelis claimed were still in the refugee camps. On September 14, Gemayel was killed in a powerful explosion at the Phalangist headquarters in East Beruit, it being uncertain who was responsible. A day later, the IDF moved into West Beruit in violation of the evacuation agreement. Sharon authorized entry of what were presumed to be members of Gemayel's Lebanese Forces (a Phalangist milita) and Saad Haddad's South Lebanon Army into the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps, home to 30,000 Palestinians and some Lebanese. The camps were completely sealed off by Israeli tanks. When the militiamen entered on Thursday evening, September 16, the only resistance they encountered was from a few lightly-armed young boys. For the next 38 hours, aided by Israeli flares at night, the militiamen raped, tortured, mutilated and massacred civilians. IDF personnel, including General Amos Yaron, IDF Commander in Beirut, were stationed on the rooftop of a seven-story building 200 meters from Shatilla, with a clear view of the camps below. Also there were members of the Phalangist intelligence who had radio communication with militiamen on the ground. By Friday morning, evidence that a massacre was taking place was communicated to Israeli Chief of Staff, Raphael Eitan, but he approved a request that the Phalangists remain in the camps until 5:00 am Saturday. The militiamen finally left the camps at 8:00 am. globalpolicy.org