i wouldn't've thought of listing "battle of algiers" on my blogger profile as one of my favorite flicks if i hadn't seen it on a local pbs station a few weeks ago.
briefly, the sequence of escalation in algiers in the 1950s began with serial shootings of colonial french cops.
the cops retaliated with the first act of terror: a big bomb in the casbah in the middle of the night, killing and injuring a large number of innocent people.
the rebels responded with a terror campaign of their own, setting off bombs at civilian targets in the french section of the city.
when the number of daily incidents grew to more than 4, the french sent in the army.
contrast that with iraq, where the average number of attacks is 65 per day.
but don't worry. rummy assures us it's the "last throes of the insurgency."
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