Short in stature, Abane had a smiling, chubby face with lively eyes. They belied a morose personality imbued with an unwavering belief that, just as France had conquered Algeria through violence, nothing but violence would ever shake loose her grip. The sinister dictum, “one corpse in a jacket is always worth more than twenty in uniform”, was a favourite of Abane’s, and representative of his basic thinking.

XREF: Connects to broader themes of asymmetric warfare and terrorism strategy literature, where targeting civilians is framed as a coercive political tactic rather than mere brutality.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 412