The F.L.N. justified civilian bombing as morally equivalent to French air attack.

Evidence

When the two bombs went off a few minutes later the carnage was particularly appalling in the Milk-Bar, where the heavy glass covering the walls was shattered into lethal splinters. Altogether there were three deaths and over fifty injured, including a dozen with amputated limbs, among them several children. Only Djamila Bouhired’s bomb, placed in the hall of the Air France terminus, failed to go off, due to a faulty timer. Pied noir reactions were expectedly violent, and those sympathetic to the F.L.N. cause were shocked by the callous placing of the bombs. Dr Pierre Chaulet, who was sheltering Ramdane Abane, expressed his disapproval but was told coldly: “I see hardly any difference between the girl who places a bomb in the Milk-Bar and the French aviator who bombards a mechta or who drops napalm on a zone interdite.” — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 559 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

In all this wave of terrorism it should be noted, however, that there was not one act of promiscuous bombing against civilians such as had been commonplace in Algiers and was to become so on a larger scale in Britain under the scourge of the I.R.A. a decade and a half later. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 970 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The February 6 hysteria also dashed the French army’s standing with Muslim Algerians; FLN leaders justified civilian bombing as equivalent to French aerial bombardment. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 559; F.L.N. France terrorism avoided indiscriminate civilian bombing — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 970 (+4 more)

Related

• FLN leaders justified civilian bombing as equivalent to French aerial bombardment. (similarity 0.94)
• Both Blair and bombers justify civilian deaths as means to a Good end (similarity 0.89)
• F.L.N. France terrorism avoided indiscriminate civilian bombing (similarity 0.88)
• The F.L.N. mirrored French collective responsibility with collective reprisals (similarity 0.84)
• Indiscriminate F.L.N. bombing alienated the Muslim working class (similarity 0.84)
• The F.L.N. moved its terrorism into metropolitan France in summer 1958 (similarity 0.83)
• Lamp-post bombs killed almost equal numbers of Muslims and Europeans, hurting F.L.N. image. (similarity 0.83)
• F.L.N. terror backfired against France, not the F.L.N., abroad (similarity 0.83)
• F.L.N. terrorism in France alienated even its expected leftist allies. (similarity 0.83)
• The F.L.N. adopted total war against French civilians in direct retaliation. (similarity 0.83)
• F.L.N. attacks on French schools were targeted war against French culture, not random savagery (similarity 0.83)
• F.L.N. terrorism backfired against France more than against Algeria itself (similarity 0.81)
• The F.L.N. physically extended its Algerian terror and fundraising methods to metropolitan France. (similarity 0.81)
• The F.L.N. justified civilian massacre as reprisal for collective repression (similarity 0.81)
• The F.L.N. adopted total war on civilians as its strategy (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• FLN leaders justified civilian bombing as equivalent to French aerial bombardment. #corroborates (0.95) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 559
• F.L.N. France terrorism avoided indiscriminate civilian bombing #contradicts (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 970
• The F.L.N. justified civilian massacre as reprisal for collective repression #expands (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 373
• The F.L.N. mirrored French collective responsibility with collective reprisals #expands (0.60)
• The F.L.N. physically extended its Algerian terror and fundraising methods to metropolitan France. #expands (0.40) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 743