| " Early on that morning, between 08:00 and 09:00, several IDF soldiers stationed nearby noted killings were being conducted against the camp refugees | Following the assassination of Lebanese Christian President , the Phalangists sought revenge |
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| Sects, Wars, and Global Extensions Markus Wiener Publishers, Princeton, USA External links• , an American journalist, later wrote to her husband, Dr | Andreopoulos, Genocide: Conceptual and Historical Dimensions, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997, , p |
Before the attempted assassination of the ambassador, all such justifications had been shot down by its ally, the United States, as an insufficient reason to launch a war against the PLO.
25| The PLO had been attacking Israel from southern Lebanon and Israel had been bombing PLO positions in southern Lebanon since the early 1970s till early 1980s | , Oxford University Press 2001 pp |
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| The following morning, 16 September, the sixth IDF order relating to the attack on West Beirut was issued | The public reason given was to be that they were there to prevent chaos |