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Congress did authorize use of military force though, but technically only against Tripoli, not Algiers or Tunis.

Too bad that the tactics that served the French so well in Algiers can not be applied in Iraq.

Then see Battle of Algiers and read the revolutionary struggles and biographies of Che, Trotsky, Mao.

I agree that The Battle of Algiers is an excellent film, one of the best ever made even.

Ah yes, 21st of April, date of the failed Algiers putsch against De Gaulle.

Maurice Audin was a young Mathematician who died in 1957 in Algiers under torture by the French Military because he supported the Algerian independence cause.

Like watch The Battle of Algiers or any Costa-Gavras movie and you realize most western cinema is at best just infantilizing and at worst outright propaganda.

I recently watched The Battle for Algiers - what an incredible movie!

For instance, the battle of Algiers is well-documented.

>Technically speaking, not factoring time on loan to exhibitions, Women of Algiers has only been on public view for the last ten days.

Following the arrest, torture (often followed by extra-judicial executions) of numerous FLN members in Algiers and civilian collaborators, the FLN organization in the area was destroyed, and its bombing campaign ended.

A great illustration of this from another era is the film The Battle of Algiers - torture, repression, removal of civil rights, and extra-judicial killing by the government in response are exactly what terrorism aims to achieve.

Along these lines get "The Battle of Algiers" on netflix.

I posted something earlier about the divide between the rich/poor--and claimed something about the lack of modern Horatio Algiers.

This effectively put an end to the FLN presence in Algiers.

There is also the fact that the people who die in handovers in Algiers, Tunis or Cairo are giving their lives to a cause they believe in.