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[backhoe]

Old post:

Terror in Algeria- a little history, please....
various websites | 12-15-01 | backhoe

[fso301]

Did the author consider the Soviets to be in any way involved in Algeria? This civilian atrocity tactic is right out of their playbook originating with the Partisan fighting in WWII.

[Free ThinkerNY]

Destroy the enemy before they destroy us.

[Capt. Tom]

The opening attack came in a small hot place called Philippeville. Philippeville was a small mining center of about 130 Europeans and about 2,000 Muslims, who for years had coexisted amicably. Apparently, labor relations were extremely good with a rare degree of equality between Muslim and European.

2,000 Moderate Muslims to be sure.
As I have said before, you never know when the moderates are going to get religion.

They got it that day. - tom

[tgambill]

The Balkans early 90's comes to mind as well as Kosovo long story stort.

[VOA]

"Alistair Hornes’s magnificent book Savage War of Peace"

I'll see your savage war and raise you a couple:
"The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power"
by Max Boot

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/046500721X/qid=1142901226/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-3820179-8299331?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

This book basically says the USA has either been "rattling swords" or
weilding them somewhere on the planet since 1805.
So much for all our peace activists talking about our country ever
totally being "at peace".

[Jonah Johansen]

Right On target.


It should be added that during the Algerian War the French academics and intellectuals took the side of the terrorists.
also, the left was not just satisfied with surrender to the Islamic radicals they then opened the door for massive immigration of Islamic radicals to France.

[OldPossum]

I think that the last paragraph was right on target. We won't see the end of this conflict, not in our lifetimes.

And when the enemy again brings their evil to bear on Americans here in the homeland, perhaps even the dodos that inhabit our nation's pressrooms might get the message.

[Savage Beast]

"...the Americans are playing it smart. They are reacting calmly and professionally. The terrorists are getting desperate..."

"But...the mainstream media have not a clue as to the grand strategy the terrorists are using. They see car bombs, body parts, and chaos and assume that all is lost. They do not understand warfare; worse, they do not understand evil.

"In fact they enable evil with their foolish dispatches."

[strategofr]

"One could easily argue that Al Qaeda and the worldwide jihad pansurgency have their roots in the Algerian War."

I was waiting for someone to come up with this angle. The reason being: the Algerian war apparently occurred before the Russians (Soviets) jumped in and took over the terrorist racket for themselves.

The story of terrorism in the 20th century is primarily a Soviet story. So of course, someone comes up with the theory saying it all stemmed from Algeria---the major pre-Soviet terror event.

I believe Al Qaeda works closely with the Russians, just like every other post-Algerian terrorist group, both in the 20th and the 21st centuries!

[justshutupandtakeit]

The Battle of Algiers was a well known recruiting tool for the Left during the sixties. Its dream was to repeat it across the world. Those leftists dominated the Clinton administration and left us with an appaling situation.

Those leftists also dominate the Treason Media which cannot allow the word of Victory to come from Iraq. The desparate attempt to paint this amazing achievement as Defeat has overreached all bounds. Imagine a three yr effort with loses of about two deaths a day has become a Lost Cause to the majority of dumbassed Americans if the polls are to be believed.

[SauronOfMordor]

It appears that the Muslim community was aware of what was about to happen on August 20, 1955. A number of Muslim families even left town. But no one warned the Europeans.

A moderate Muslim is someone who is not inclined to kill non-Muslims himself, yet is also not about to oppose fellow Muslims who DO want to kill them.

A Muslim who fights against fellow Muslims on the side of the infidels, is an apostate by definition