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 literature on revolutionary strategy, e.g., Che Guevara, Mao, and the 'terror pays' calculus in asymmetric warfare. QUESTION: Do historians agree that Philippeville's massacre actually netted the FLN strategic gains, or was its cost assessed differently later?

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