Also targeted, in a determined effort by the F.I.S. to ruin the country's economy by scaring off badly needed external investment, were foreign journalists and technicians. Distinguished political leaders, like Ait Ahmed, were driven — once more — into exile, for fear of their lives. The Government met terror with counter-terror. There leaked out accounts of torture, executions without trial, and "disappearances" that recalled the worst moments of the French Occupation. As in the '60s, during the reign of the O.A.S., terrorist bombings now struck at Metropolitan France again.

QUESTION: The parallel drawn to the French Occupation and the O.A.S. bombing of Metropolitan France suggests a cyclical pattern worth investigating further.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1695