In 1995, two rays of hope appeared. Oil exploration in Algeria made the world's biggest oil discoveries for the past year. But would these now be put to the salvation of the country's desperate economic problems, and to countering the demands of overpopulation — that fertile field on which Fundamentalism breeds so readily — or would they be, once again, profligately wasted, as under Boumedienne?

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1696