Ambassador to the Sudan. Cleo Noel. Jr.. Charge DAffaires Curtis Moore. and Belgian diplomat Guy Eid. Throughout the daylong drama. the terrorists treated Noel courteously until they received a phone call with the code words Nahar El Bard. Arabic for Cold River. Cold River was the name of a Lebanese refugee camp that Israeli commandos had raided a few weeks before. Shortly after the call. the terrorists brutally machinegunned the diplomats after allowing them to write farewell notes to their families. and beating them. A day later. the terrorists surrendered to Sudanese authorities after a lengthy round of transoceanic communications involving. among others.