"Lawrence Upton." wrote:
> Yes
> How did I forget Algeria?
> I was only talkingt about it, as if I know anything, yesterday morning
> .
> Why aren't we bombing Algeria?
> .
> The French attitude to Algeria, as was, would make an interesting comparison
> to the Serbian approach to Kosovo - perhaps...
French bombing techniques in Algeria were not as highly technological: the
French army would fill their planes with arrested Algerians, presumed
moujahideens or just any fellaheen they could get their hands on, then throw
those as live ammo on the villages they wanted to bombard.
Pierre
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> L
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> From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> To: British poets <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 30 March 1999 03:58
> Subject: Re: (Fwd) Unca Bart's reply To Poet
> |How are some atrocities worse than others? How can some murders require
> |action, while others can be forgotten? Is it less outrageous to
> |slaughter Algerians than to slaughter Albanians? etc etc etc.
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