Kim Ghattas

And when the Americans learn of that, one of the diplomats, Morris Draper, is actually in Tel Aviv and he's meeting with Begin and Sharon and he says, you promised us you wouldn't do this.

You promised us that you wouldn't go into West Beirut.

You have to leave now.

And there's a whole back and forth that is very detailed in various accounts of how this unfolds.

Bashir Jumail has been assassinated and soon enough his brother Amin Jumail will become president.

He's now the leader of the Falange party and he is complicit in what unfolds because he is also getting phone calls from people.

the Americans saying, you know, your men are entering the camps, you need to get them out.

We're hearing reports of terrible things unfolding in the camps.

And he's like, yes, I'll get back to you.

From Thursday evening until Saturday morning, there's an orgy of killing inside the camps.

It is too gruesome almost to describe what happens.

And yes, Israeli pilots

are throwing flares in the air to light up the camps for the Lebanese forces armed militia leaders who are inside the camps.

And just as a short aside, the Lebanese forces are this new militia created by Bashir Jemayel as the sort of his own militia.

military faction that is slightly separate from the Falange party, but still under the same umbrella.

So it's not the Falange party that is inside the camps, but the Lebanese forces, which is slightly distinct.

And it's led by a man, Bashir Jumail's right hand, Elie Habayka.

And they are in there, they say, as revenge.

But you could also argue that it was always their plan to go in and to finish off whatever they could finish off.

Well, what does that mean though, Cam?