"Isn’t it even more cowardly to attack defenseless villages with napalm bombs that kill many thousands of times more? Obviously, planes would make things easier for us. Give us your bombers, sir, and you can have our baskets."
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Actually said in The Battle of Algiers (film) as an adaptation of the real quote.
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Larbi Ben M'hidi
Larbi Ben M'hidi (1923 – 4 March 1957) was an Algerian revolutionary and co-founder of the Front de Libération Nationale, active during the Algerian War of Independence.
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