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On Nov. 1, 1954, 50 years ago, the Algerian National Liberation Front coordinated bomb attacks and assaults throughout Algeria; it was the start of the Algerian war of independence. Eight years later, and at a cost of nearly 1 million lives from a population of less than 9 million.

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