During his visit to “Binoculars”, after Kabyle village children had dutifully chanted the Marseillaise, Just as I was leaving, the Muslim town clerk stopped me, bowing and trembling, and murmured: “Mon général, don’t be taken in! Everyone here wants independence.” At Saida, where the heroic Bigeard introduced me to a commando unit who had been won over, I caught sight of a young Arab doctor attached to their group. “Well, doctor, what do you think of it all?” “What we Arabs want, and what we need,” he replied, his eyes filled with tears, “is to be responsible for ourselves instead of others being responsible for us.”

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1025