By tehe way Bruce - you have been given links to the most comprehensive study of the massacre
"SABRA & CHATILA - INQUIRY INTO A MASSACRE by Amnon Kapeliouk"
He was a Jewish citizen of Jerusalem, an acedamic; his work is annotated throughout and his sources are impeccable
Keeith dismisses the little bit he has read as "unreliable" (without explanation, of course) and has refused to read all of it because it is "too long"
It is corroborated by Robert Fisk's two major articles and also my the eyewitness testimonies of nurse, Ellen Siegel and Dr Ang Swee Chai.
Keith vaccilates between Seigal seeing nothing and the next minute "she was on top of the hospital building and taking long walks, viewing it all"
His most disgusting rejection of eyewitness evidence was that of traumatised Israeli soldiers who were there - he describes them as "unreliable".
"There were reports of fighting. Exchanges of fire."
There were no such reports - produce them if there were - otherwise you are lying again
"You do not need flares to massacre civilians"
Bloody nonsense - there was no street lighting Witnesses, including Ellen Seigal described it as being "as light as day"
"The Phalange were sent in by IDF to clear the camps of fighters."
The fighters had left long ago - none were found, there was no armed reesistance - the Israeli commandants were fully aware of this and if they hadn't been it was straightforward mass murder to send in a fanatical religious sect whose leader had recently been assassinated into a camp of unarmed refugees - this even contravened the Israeli constitution which makes it an act of murder.
Jim Carroll