On 19 February a jubilant Bigeard announced that his 3rd R.P.C. had seized eighty-seven bombs, seventy kilos of explosive, 5,120 fulminate of mercury detonators, 309 electric detonators, etc.; many of the bomb network were either identified or already under lock and key. Yacef's organisation, which had taken eighteen months to construct, had all but fallen apart.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 575