The O.A.S. nearly incinerated the Casbah with a rolling petrol tanker
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 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Pied noir counter-terrorists bombed the Casbah, killing seventy Muslims. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 553
Related
- Pied noir counter-terrorists bombed the Casbah, killing seventy Muslims. (similarity 0.91)
- OAS terror in Algiers included massacres of dockers and a plotted tanker inferno (similarity 0.82)
- OAS metropole terror reached nearly into the French foreign ministry and Eiffel Tower. (similarity 0.81)
Broader Connections
- Pied noir counter-terrorists bombed the Casbah, killing seventy Muslims.
#corroborates(0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 553