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...scenes of horror spread. In Oran, a legless Moslem veteran was pulled from his wheelchair and murdered, while near the city's imposing Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, European teen-agers gleefully urinated on the body of another slain Moslem. Near Algiers, a French jeweler was "executed" as a traitor by the S.A.O. because he planned "to flee the country when it was in danger." At industrial Bone, where 1,500 years ago St. Augustine preached the City of God, a bomb destroyed a Moslem tenement, killing ten women and children, and Europeans drove off rescuers with rocks and pistol...
Most European parents approve their sons' taking part in ratonnades?the hunting down of "rats," a French epithet for Moslems. Explained a father: "Our sons are all we have left to make us respected here. They are our only means of resistance." A Moslem says: "For each Moslem killed, we will kill a European." A European answers: "Since we are an eight-to-one minority in Algeria, eight Moslems will die for every...
...S.A.O. headquarters staff consists of Salan and 20 to 30 intimates. It has set up three Algerian departments, which, in turn, are subdivided into zones, sectors and subsectors. On paper there are some 77 subsectors?mostly in the cities, for the S.A.O. has little or no support in the Moslem countryside. This framework is fleshed out with men: first, 1,000 to 2,000 terrorists, gunmen and bomb specialists; next, up to 20,000 block leaders, spies, fund raisers and agitators. At bottom is a reserve of some 100,000 former militiamen who were disbanded in 1960 by De Gaulle...
...proclamations, and clandestine broadcasts, the fantastic S.A.O. platform shapes up like this: 1) all Algerians will remain French on French soil, and partition into separate Moslem and European states is unthinkable; 2) the Moslem population will get equal status?some time in the future; 3) in the new France, the S.A.O. will rip out the "Communist and Christian-Progressivist cancer that has undermined the state"; 4) the S.A.O. will eagerly join the French army as the "antiCommunist spearhead of the nation"; 5) having won France, the S.A.O. will then defend Western civilization through nationalism, which is "France's permanent vocation?...
...Their Lives. At first, Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda of the F.L.N. Provisional Government smugly announced that the S.A.O. was not an F.L.N. concern; it was an "affair between Frenchmen." But as the toll of Moslem deaths mounted in gunfights and ratonnades, Benkhedda reversed himself. This month, in an official communique, the F.L.N. declared war on the S.A.O. In Algiers, underground fighters stood guard at Moslem cafes and clubs; "self-defense units" were formed in the Moslem bidonvilles (shanty towns). Fellagha gunmen stopped skirmishing with the French-army patrols to step up attacks on S.A.O. terrorists...