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Algeria marks 50th anniversary of war of independence with France
I believe that this war is one of the prototypes used by al-Q in its current operations. Note that the scheme was cooked up and nurtured in Egypt. And also that the UN was used to provide the appearance of legitimacy for terroristic acts performed in the name of "self-determination."
Fifty years ago Sunday, Algerian nationalists sparked what was to become one of the African continent's bloodiest independence wars with a series of some 60 nearly simultaneous explosions and attacks that left a dozen people dead. Their meticulously planned surprise operation targeted symbols of French rule such as police stations, municipal buildings, bridges and electrical facilities, stunning the colonial authorities only months after France lost Indochina at Dien Bien Phu. | Multiple coordinated explosions, check. Infrastructure targeted along with civilians, check. Complete and utter surprise, check. |
It would take the French political class nearly nine more blood-soaked years to grasp the amplitude of the rebellion, and to break ranks with proponents of an eternal French Algeria.| Elites in France completely clueless and in denial, check. |
The National Liberation Front (FLN), announcing in Cairo its intent to wrest independence from France after 132 years under its rule, was immediately embraced by charismatic Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser, at a time when European colonial powers, weakened by World War Two, faced a wave of nationalism encouraged by the defeat of Nazi totalitarianism. | Someone more knowledgeable about Nasser's role will have to comment here. |
| Nasser getting revenge for Suez, 1956, check. |
Posted by: Seafarious 2004-10-28 |
