The O.A.S. claim that Feraoun’s murder was a mistake is implausible

Evidence

According to Salan’s aide, Captain Ferrandi, the shooting of Feraoun was a mistake; the main target was the missing man, “a certain Petitbon, a senior official of the national education services”, who had decided not to attend the meeting at the last moment — so the O.A.S. squad just killed whoever was there. In view of the singling out of “the best Muslim elements in the liberal professions” in Salan’s Instruction No. 29, the excuse — such as it is — hardly convinces. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1624

Categorization

• XREF: Salan’s Instruction No. 29 targeting educated Muslim professionals links neatly to the book’s earlier accounts of systematic O.A.S. assassinations of liberal Muslim elites. — connects to: O.A.S. murders in late 1961 were indiscriminate and grossly exceeded their intended targets; O.A.S. terror drove out the very pieds noirs it claimed to defend; Guise’s murder was an indirect casualty of the Armada’s failure — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 870

Related

• O.A.S. murders in late 1961 were indiscriminate and grossly exceeded their intended targets (similarity 0.92)
• The O.A.S. sabotaged peace talks by assassinating moderates and Muslims. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Guise’s murder was an indirect casualty of the Armada’s failure #corroborates (0.40) — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 870
• O.A.S. terror drove out the very pieds noirs it claimed to defend #corroborates (0.35)