Though Abane could hardly express satisfaction at the savage slaughter of innocents that accompanied it, his cold reasoning told him that the consequences of the Philippeville uprising would be a net gain for the F.L.N., and they were to encourage him in the initiation of a new offensive of urban terrorism—the Battle of Algiers. Like other revolutionaries both before and since, Abane concurred with his fellow F.L.N. leaders who had reached the conclusion that terror paid.

XREF: Connects to broader scholarship on how liberation movements coerce rural populations versus winning hearts and minds, paralleling other insurgencies.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 415