Aussaresses

Aurauserees

• Algeria
• admitted killing two prominent resistance FLN leaders and making them look like suicide
• claims in COIN the justice system gets clogged
• civilians justice standards are too high and paralyzing for war
• he advocates killing suspects again

city of battle of algiers

• ben heady
• ali bumajel
• discussion of implicit or tacit approval by Paris of the assasinations (Mitterand was implicated)
• he says these killings crippled the insurgent capacity and forced them to retreat into the mountains
• attacks died down significantly
• killings had a demonstration effect against french sympathizers in Paris who supported the FLN
• justice is expendable and has no role in COIN operations
• the general was scared that they would get off or be made martyrs by the justice system

Aussaresses

• chieu hoe house
• trained in Algeria in 1942
• familiar with muslim locals
• when he returned in the 1950's torture was common practice
• begins post of intelligence gathering in philipville
• he randomly picked up people and tortured them (Beat, Shock, Water)
• if it is revealed they are FLN then they should be killed immediately
• getting lots of cabs meant or medical supplies meant an attack was imminent
• he uncovers an FLN and works very hard to get reinforcements
• the attack was purely for terror purposes
• catastrophic dehumanization