Terrorism in Algeria

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 101. Chapters: Algerian Civil War, Algerian War, Suicide car and truck bombings in Algeria, Torture during the Algerian War, Insurgency in the Maghreb, Air France Flight 8969, Paris massacre of 1961, Pied-Noir, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, History of Algeria, Battle of Algiers, Algerian Six, Armed Islamic Group of Algeria, Algiers putsch of 1961, National Liberation Front, Ahmed Zaoui, Islamic Salvation Front, Harki, Camp de Rivesaltes, Comparison of Iraq War to the Algerian War, Women in the Algerian War, May 1958 crisis, Religion in Algeria, La Question, Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic, December 11, 2007 Algiers bombings, Battle of Agounennda, Timeline of the Algerian Civil War, Sahara hostage crisis 2003, Sétif and Guelma massacre, The Centurions, Algerian national reconciliation referendum, 2005, Manifesto of the 121, Assassination of the monks of Tibhirine, Oran massacre of 1962, Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation, 2009 Algerian military ambush, Battle of Philippeville, 2008 Issers bombing, 2007 Batna bombing, Canary Islands Independence Movement, Évian Accords, List of Algerian massacres of the 1990s, Oujda Group, 1995 Paris Metro bombing, Café Wars, 11 April 2007 Algiers bombings, 2008 Beni Amrane bombings, Yacine Akhnouche, Nabil Sahraoui, Front Algérie Française, Morice Line, Armée de Libération Nationale, Operation Jumelles, Groupe d'Intervention Spécial, Beni-oui-ouis, Jeanson network, Conseil national de la Résistance, 2007 Dellys bombing, Aïssa Messaoudi, Fellagha, Triangle of Death, A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962. Excerpt: The Algerian War, (Arabic: ¿ Thawra Jaza'iriya, "Algerian Revolution"; French: ), was a conflict between France and Algerian independence movements from 1954 to 1962, which led to Algeria's gaining its independence from France. An important decolonization war, it was a complex conflict characterized by guerrilla warfare, maquis fighting, terrorism against civilians, the use of torture on both sides, and counter-terrorism operations by the French Army. The conflict was also a civil war between loyalist Algerian Muslims who believed in a French Algeria and their insurrectionist Algerian counterparts. Effectively started by members of the National Liberation Front (FLN) on November 1, 1954, during the Toussaint Rouge ("Red All Saints' Day"), the conflict shook the foundations of the French Fourth Republic (1946-58) and led to its eventual collapse. The war involved a large number of rival movements which fought against each other at different moments, such as on the independence side, when the FLN fought viciously against the Algerian National Movement (MNA) in Algeria and in the Café Wars on the French mainland; on the pro-French side, during its final months, when the conflict evolved into a civil war between pro-French hardliners in Algeria and supporters of General Charles de Gaulle. The French Army split during two attempted coups, while the right-wing Organisation de l'armée secrète (OAS) fought against both the FLN and the French government's forces. Under directives from Guy Mollet's French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) government and from François Mitterrand, who was minister of the interior, the French Army initiated a campaign of "pacification" of what was considered at the time to be a full part of France. This "public-order operation" quickly grew to a full-scale war. Algerians, who had at first large...