The most precise, synchronised timing was to be observed; under strictest orders from Ben Boulaid not a shot was to be fired until 03.00 hours on the morning of 1 November.

XREF: This deliberately synchronized coordinated attack (midnight launch) parallels the opening of the Algerian War with simultaneous strikes — echoes of coordinated uprisings like the Easter Rising or Tet Offensive.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 266