whitebeard

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Anniversaries

Friday 17 September, 1982

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

01:00am - IDF radio reports from Beirut that "the IDF will not operate tonight to purge the areas of Sabra and Shatila ... It was decided to entrust the Phalange with the mission to carry out these purging operations." The report was rebroadcast at 02:00am, never to be repeated afterward.

Daybreak - Israeli officers and soldiers watch with binoculars what is happening inside the Shatila camp. They can see piles of bodies and men being lined up for execution. Soldiers from an armored unit stationed 100 meters from the camp report that they can see the execution of civilians by the militiamen. Lieutenant Avi Grabowski, deputy commander of an IDF tank company witnesses the Phalangists killing civilians, including women and children. He confronts a Phalangist about killing pregnant women. The Phalangist answers that "pregnant women will give birth to terrorists." Israeli soldiers who report Phalangist atrocities against civilians to their superiors are ordered not to interfere with what is happening in the camps and not to enter the area. When Grabowski reports to his battalion commander, he is told: "We know, it's not to our liking, and don't interfere."

05:30am - Lieutenant Colonel Moshe Hevroni, the bureau chief at IDF General Staff HQ in Tel Aviv, receives a report indicating that 300 casualties are reported in the camps. At 07:30am, he passes this information to Avi Duda'i, a personal aide to Defense Minister Sharon.
See here

And now?
VIOLENCIA EN IRAK
Al menos 60 muertos en los bombardeos de Estados Unidos contra Faluya y Ramadi
El Ejército de Estados Unidos ha confirmado la muerte de al menos 60 personas tras el bombardeo contra campamentos insurgentes en Faluya y Ramadi supuestamente bajo mando del radical islamista Al Zarqaui. Varios testigos afirman que entre las víctimas se encuentran civiles.
http://www.elpais.es/

32 killed as US pounds Falluja
8.30am: US forces attack suspected terrorists in insurgent stronghold.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/

Fallujah strikes 'kill 60'
US warplanes bomb targets in flashpoint town
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
I don't see this news in the american newspapers.

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