The state’s anti-O.A.S. barbouzes were hopelessly outmatched amateurs

Evidence

By comparison with Degueldre’s highly trained and ruthless army deserters and the veteran pied noir counter-terrorists of Pérez, Bitterlin’s barbouzes were a motley and amateurish crew. Their nucleus consisted of Jim Alcheik, a Jewish-Tunisian karate champion, and eight judo black belts he had brought with him; four Vietnamese expert in torture (which they not infrequently used), but who stood out like sore thumbs in the Algiers scene; and a mixture of pieds noirs of Jewish origin, Gaullist party “bouncers” and untrained muscle-men. None of them was a match for Degueldre’s Deltas, by whom they were almost immediately identified before even going into action. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1499 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The anti-O.A.S. barbouzes were amateur amateurs outmatched by the Deltas — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1499

Related

• The anti-O.A.S. barbouzes were amateur amateurs outmatched by the Deltas (similarity 0.96)
• The sacrificial barbouzes served as a decoy that exposed the OAS (similarity 0.82)
• The barbouzes suffered ambush almost immediately after arriving in Algiers (similarity 0.79)
• The O.A.S. extorted pieds noirs with surveillance and threats (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The anti-O.A.S. barbouzes were amateur amateurs outmatched by the Deltas #corroborates (0.95) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1499