By comparison with Degueldre’s highly trained and ruthless army deserters and the veteran pied noir counter-terrorists of Pérez, Bitterlin’s barbouzes were a motley and amateurish crew. Their nucleus consisted of Jim Alcheik, a Jewish-Tunisian karate champion, and eight judo black belts he had brought with him; four Vietnamese expert in torture (which they not infrequently used), but who stood out like sore thumbs in the Algiers scene; and a mixture of pieds noirs of Jewish origin, Gaullist party “bouncers” and untrained muscle-men. None of them was a match for Degueldre’s Deltas, by whom they were almost immediately identified before even going into action.

XREF: Painting the personnel composition of irregular paramilitary forces, comparable to other covert group profiles in the reader's library.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1499