THE SUNDAY TIMES, BEIRUT, APRIL 5, 1987 She lay where she had fallen, face down on the dirt path leading out of Bourj al Barajneh. Haji Achmed Ali, 22, crumpled as the snipers’ bullets hit her in the face and stomach. She had tried to cross the no man’s land between the Palestinian camp and the Amal militiamen besieging it to buy food for her family.

