Early in the afternoon they [Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Ulrike Meinhof and others] reached Amman, and were welcomed by military leaders of the Fatah organization. …

After less than an hour's journey, the group came to the [military training] camp outside the city. …

They were served the scanty food on which the Palestinians had been living for years: canned meat donated by UNRRA, the United Nations refugee relief organization, generally mixed with rice. With it they got flat cakes of Arab bread, water, fruit only occasionally, fresh meat never.

The Germans did not like this diet, and complained from the start. One of the young girls, in all seriousness, demanded the installation of a Coca-Cola machine in the camp.