http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43456.htm "France’s Unresolved Algerian War Sheds Light on the Paris Attack
The French-Algerian identity of one of the attackers demonstrates how France’s savage 1956-62 war in Algeria continues to infect today’s atrocities.
A colonial war 50 years ago is no justification for mass murder, but it provides a context without which any explanation of why France is now a target makes little sense."
OIL http://www.opec.org/opec_web/en/about_us/146.htm
Just as S Arabia & US have an oil based "relationship" France too needs Africa's oil.
Algeria was colonised by France, for 132 years.
Someone who answered a Y/A said those were dark days she lived through, the turmoil after independence, "the dark decade".
Fundamentalism, chillingly similar to the Taliban, Al Qaeda, ISIS. No help from US/UK to fight it.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/karima-bennoune/algeria-twenty-years-on-words-do-not-die
http://www.wluml.org/news/algeria-lessons-january-11-1992-remembering-cancellation-algeria%E2%80%99s-elections-wake-%E2%80%9Carab-autumn%E2%80%9D
Watch "Al Jazeera Algeria Test of Power 1of2 An Authoritarian Era" on YouTube https://youtu.be/jK7aK98xrr8
Watch "Al Jazeera Algeria Test of Power 2of2 An Era of Tempests" on YouTube https://youtu.be/A3jQ3ZgWqys
French politicians financed by ELF. No prosecutions!
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2003/11/elff-n25.html
Watch "The French African Connection 2of3: The Elf Scandal" on YouTube https://youtu.be/DOM59Ty9yX8