The Bombing of Sakiet Sidi Youssef in 1958 and the Complexity of the Algerian War
Valette, Jacques
The Bombing of Sakiet Sidi Youssef in 1958 and the Complexity of the Algerian War - 2009.
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The Algerian bombing in the spring of?1958 of the Tunisian village Sakiet led to a serious French-Tunisian crisis and an attempt by Anglo-American diplomats to intervene. According to archives recently declassified, the action consisted only of a military operation, ordered by the French High Command and authorized by the French Government, against an FLN base on the Algerian-Tunisian frontier. Convoys of arms and fellagha were being sent from this base to the maquis in Kabylie and eastern Algeria.
The Bombing of Sakiet Sidi Youssef in 1958 and the Complexity of the Algerian War - 2009.
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The Algerian bombing in the spring of?1958 of the Tunisian village Sakiet led to a serious French-Tunisian crisis and an attempt by Anglo-American diplomats to intervene. According to archives recently declassified, the action consisted only of a military operation, ordered by the French High Command and authorized by the French Government, against an FLN base on the Algerian-Tunisian frontier. Convoys of arms and fellagha were being sent from this base to the maquis in Kabylie and eastern Algeria.
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