Its leader, Larbi Alilat, son of a Kabyle caid from the Soummam valley and a veteran of the 1957 Battle of Algiers, renounced the old rigid pyramidal structure of Yacef's Z.A.A. which had become so disastrously susceptible to bleuite penetration. Instead, each trusted member of the network was instructed to recruit one lifelong friend. Co-ordinated under the aegis of a newly reconstructed Wilaya 4, a minimum of carefully chosen operations was attempted in the course of the year. Thus the growth of Alilat's force went on largely undisturbed by the French security forces.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1267