Word: bashir
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...investigating the massacres at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon. Time asserted that there was a secret "Appendix B" to the commission's report which claimed that Sharon spoke with Lebanese Christian leaders about "the need...to take revenge" on the Palestinians for the assassination of President Bashir Gemayel...
...fighting in West Beirut, a car bomb was detonated in Christian East Beirut, killing the driver and 55 passersby, including ten children who were trapped in a blazing bus. No organization claimed responsibility for the blast, the worst in East Beirut since the one that killed President-elect Bashir Gemayel in September...
...Last week, however, Gemayel's Phalange Party was suddenly challenged by a senior officer in the Lebanese Forces, which are dominated by the Phalangist militia. Both the party and the militia were founded by the late Sheik Pierre Gemayel, and the Lebanese Forces were formerly led by the late Bashir Gemayel, the son of Pierre and brother of Amin. The challenger was one of the Lebanese Forces commanders, Samir Geagea, 32, who seemed bent not only on taking over the militia but on changing Amin Gemayel's allegedly pro-Syrian policy. Late last week, Geagea and seven other militia commanders...
Geagea is reported to have won the backing of Solange Gemayel, Bashir's widow. One of his chief allies is another militia commander, Elias Hobeika, who led the Phalangist forces into the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in September 1982, where they murdered an estimated 700 to 800 Palestinian and Lebanese civilians. The following year, Geagea helped direct the Christian assault on Druze villages in the mountains. The Druze fought off the Christian forces, and on one occasion Geagea had to be rescued by an Israeli helicopter...
Sharon's lawsuit was aimed at the 22nd paragraph in TIME's eight-page story. The passage described a sympathy call Sharon paid to the Gemayel family the day after Bashir's death and said that details about the visit were contained in a classified Appendix B to the report. The paragraph went on to say: "Sharon reportedly told the Gemayels that the Israeli army would be moving ; into West Beirut and that he expected the Christian forces to go into the Palestinian refugee camps. Sharon also reportedly discussed with the Gemayels the need for the Phalangists to take revenge...