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Along the road the column was stopped at an Afghan checkpoint. Afghan troops gathered round to find out what was happening. Suddenly the flaps of the front vehicle went up and the Afghans were machine-gunned to the ground. The column rolled on. When it reached the palace, the special troops attacked from three sides, while Colonel Bayerenov (the head of the KGB's terrorist-training school) led the assault on the palace. The attack got off to a good start. It would have been even better had the leading armored vehicle not got caught up in the palace...
...euphoria, only relief that it was over. No one knows how badly Beirut was damaged, but one Lebanese businessman places the cost of rebuilding the city at more than $10 billion. Though it is possible to drive safely from East to West Beirut, passing only the occasional Lebanese army checkpoint, the years of division have left their wounds. It is as if the people still cannot believe their luck in having survived...
More baffling was the role the Israelis had played. Certainly Israeli soldiers had not done the shooting, but the Israelis controlled the area, had checkpoints near the camps, and were within earshot of the firing. How and why had they allowed the militiamen to enter the camps? At the Israeli checkpoint outside the Sabra camp, an officer of the Lebanese Forces told Correspondent Suro Friday afternoon: "We have been waiting to get in there for years.'' Explaining that his troops had been going from house to house through the camp "clearing out the last fighters," he added: "We are better...
When newsmen tried to enter the Sabra camp late Friday afternoon, they were stopped at the checkpoint by Israeli soldiers, who told them that fighting was still going on inside the camp. Reported Suro: "We could hear the burst of automatic weapons fire and the explosion of grenades. It was clearly not a firefight because the volleys of gunfire were not being returned: the guns were being fired in only one direction." Israeli soldiers rested at the edge of the camp even as the firing continued. They did not appear concerned about snipers or any kind of attack from inside...
...colder as well. At 31, he holds a high rank in Al-Fatah, the largest faction within the P.L.O. He says very little at first, sizing up the stranger. Their taxi rolls past a fat man who has been forced to drop his pants for a search at a checkpoint in the middle of the street. He stands there helpless before a group of boy soldiers and squeals in rage and humiliation...