Pied noir counter-terrorists bombed the Casbah, killing seventy Muslims.

Evidence

On 10 August an immense explosion rocked the Casbah. A house in the Rue de Thèbes had been blown up; reputedly it had housed F.L.N. terrorists involved in the June reprisals, but also destroyed with it were three neighbouring houses, and the Muslim death-roll ran to seventy, including women and children. At first it was alleged that a secret bomb factory had gone off by mistake, but soon pied noir counter-terrorist groups associated with Kovacs and Achiary were making no secret of their responsibility. The F.L.N. claim that, up to this point, no bomb directed against human life, as opposed to property, had yet been detonated in Algiers. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 553

Categorization

• XREF: Counter-terror violence from settlers echoes themes from earlier chapters on pied noir psychology and the ‘fight back’ the reader is tracking. — connects to: The O.A.S. nearly incinerated the Casbah with a rolling petrol tanker

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