Word: mourad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trick had been done. Helped by hooded native informers, the French claim to have arrested the top men in FLN's justice, medical, propaganda and intelligence sections in Algiers. All are under 30. Last week French paratroopers found the trail of two of FLN's top terrorists-Mourad, 27, a mechanic turned bombmaker, and Ramel, 26, a 250-lb. onetime Zouave in the French army, who plotted rebel forays from the Casbah. Led to the spot by a native informer, two companies of French paratroopers boxed in Mourad and Ramel on the third floor of a once ornate...
...more, while terrified Moslems in the area shrieked and scattered to safety, the siege went on. The rebels dropped six more bombs, killed two French soldiers, wounded three others. At last Ramel, already wounded, made a dash for the street and was shot dead. Then with a homemade bomb Mourad blew up himself, Ramel's 20-year-old mistress and most of the house...