OAS Terrorists Launch Another Attack in Algiers
May 23, 1962 - European Secret Army Organization (OAS) terrorists killed a special security policeman and wounded four others today in a gun battle in the center of Algiers. The incident was one of 33 acts of terrorist violence that cost the lives of 23 persons and left 29 wounded. Nineteen of the dead and twenty-two of the wounded were Moslems. The high number of attacks was attributed to a decision by the Right-wing OAS to exact blood toll from Moslems after the discovery y