Algeria’s civil war terrorism carried the conflict into France itself

Evidence

As for France, if at every hand in Algeria one could detect the roots, and pattern, of the war of 1954–62, so too in a similar fashion did the civil war between Algerians of the 1990s soon overflow across the Mediterranean. In 1995 and 1996 feuding between rival clans of the GIA brought terrorism to the Paris Metro, killing and wounding over eighty persons. Supposedly aimed at dissuading the French from backing the repression of the Algiers government, in what could have been a hideous preview of 9/11, an Air France plane hijacked, pointedly, on Christmas Eve, 1994, was evidently programmed to be flown suicidally into the Eiffel Tower. The problem of immigration became an ever hotter issue for any French government to handle, as carnage in Algeria—on top of overpopulation—persuaded increasing numbers of Algerians to seek refuge, and employment, in France. In the winter of 2005–6, outbursts of rage in the overcrowded banlieues, with their substandard housing, gave the lie to the Gaullist notion that, with the end of the war in 1962, France could wash its hands of the “Algerian Problem.” Now there are over five million of Algerian extraction living in France. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 46

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s own account of ‘Battle of Algiers’ terrorism and to contemporary Paris banlieue riots scholarship. — connects to: Metropolitan terrorism alienated the French Left that supported Algerian independence; F.L.N. terrorism backfired against France more than against Algeria itself; The F.L.N. coerced Algeria’s Jews through terrorism and economic sanctions (+7 more)
• SEED: Angle: the Algerian War as the first ‘transnational’ counterinsurgency, anticipating 9/11 and the 2005 banlieue riots.

Related

• The Algerian War’s aftermath migrated with émigrés into France’s banlieues (similarity 0.94)
• F.L.N. terrorism backfired against France more than against Algeria itself (similarity 0.91)
• The F.L.N. coerced Algeria’s Jews through terrorism and economic sanctions (similarity 0.86)
• Metropolitan terrorism alienated the French Left that supported Algerian independence (similarity 0.86)
• Algeria’s post-independence civil conflict replicated both the OAS bombings and French counter-terror patterns (similarity 0.85)
• Algeria’s 1990s civil war echoed the war of liberation in scale and tactics. (similarity 0.85)
• Algeria’s post-independence civil war killed over twice as many as the war against France (similarity 0.84)
• Algeria’s 1990s violence deliberately recycled tactics from the war against France (similarity 0.84)
• Algeria’s 1990s civil war killed roughly 100,000 people. (similarity 0.83)
• Algeria’s post-independence ‘peace’ proved as savage as its war (similarity 0.83)
• Algeria’s 1990s civil war reprised the FLN’s 1954 insurgency pattern (similarity 0.83)
• F.L.N. terrorism in France alienated even its expected leftist allies. (similarity 0.82)
• French Muslim presence traces to Algeria’s 1830-1962 colonial conquest (similarity 0.82)
• F.L.N. France terrorism avoided indiscriminate civilian bombing (similarity 0.82)
• The Algerian War was anticolonial, not religious, yet seeded later jihad (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Algeria’s 1990s violence deliberately recycled tactics from the war against France #expands (0.75) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1694
• Algeria’s post-independence civil conflict replicated both the OAS bombings and French counter-terror patterns #expands (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1695
• Torture boomeranged against France in the Algerian war #expands (0.60)