Now IIRC the IDF were under orders to withdraw from Beirut. The Lebanese Militias and Lebanese Army was going to take over responsibility for "security" in Beirut. Tell me Jim why would those militiamen and Lebanese troops need transporting from the airport? Where had they flown in from, their holidays? 3,500? That number has never been substantiated or verified - your best bet was that the IDF under the gaze of the UN and world's press somehow buried them "in secret" under a sports stadium that at the times was in ruins, but no bodies or the slightest trace of human remains found at this site.
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