The episodes marked the beginning of what was in effect a kind of civil war, and another of those “secret wars” fought behind the scenes of the main battle-front — savage, mean and without quarter — of which the first round had been won by the O.A.S. For the time being they appeared once again masters of Algiers.

XREF: Parallels the internal O.A.S. struggles in French Algeria with similar shadow conflicts seen elsewhere in political and colonial history.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1495