Algeria, June 29th of 1992.

Chairman of the HCE, President of Algeria, Mohamed Boudiaf, was gunned down on live television today; while making a speech, dozens of shots were heard as he collapsed from his wounds. His bodyguards were confused, shook, until they noticed the perpetrator: one of their own. Lambarek Boumaafi was a lone gunman that emptied his submachine gun on the President before getting shot to death; it was an immediate reaction to the death of the President that many saw as a critic of the military regime of Algeria - and some saw him as the fighter against authoritarianism.

Regardless of thoughts, Boudiaf was killed by a man with mysterious allegiances, of which the military claimed as the GIA. On July 18th of 1992, a dissenting officer, Mahmood Zeroual, said that a final speech written by Boumaafi said that he had a massive hatred for Boudiaf due to his interference with the military, blaming him for the slow collapse of the economy due to his Decree, which allowed insurgents to gather a massive footing as one of, as he calls it, “the greatest blunders of the century”. This declaration has been met with upheaval by the population and social protests were ripe, mostly concentrated in Algiers. Other cities, like Touggourt, were met with minor attacks by the GIA, including a car rigged with explosives which killed eight soldiers and one military officer, along with wounding four civilians.

The case was known as the “Boudiaf Conspiracy” and it included the HCE defending their claim that Zeroual was a GIA supporter and radical killer, but many dissenting civilians started to believe Boumaafi, and while the case mostly indicated that Zeroual was a rogue, albeit pro-military killer, the entire assassination and the effects of it were blamed on the entire Armed Forces as a whole. Boudiaf had become a martyr in the matter of days, and his legacy had a brutal effect on the situation of Algeria as a whole.

The GIA, however, savored the accusations of the Army for their own benefit, talking to Saudi donors and others interested in investing in the GIA, including the mujahideen in Afghanistan and the famed al-Qaeda, including utilizing it as propaganda in specific sectors of Algeria, more specifically those discontent with FIS’ inertia in regards to attacking the Algerian government. The strategy that GIA was utilizing, more specifically, was the one that FIS was a jahili organization, interested in decadent behavior including the profiteering of oil for frugalities instead of jihad. One of the pamphlets held a very special citation from the Prophet himself: “Whoever dies never having fought (in Jihad), nor in having made up his mind to do so, dies on a branch of hypocrisy”. The text below the citation then says: “Do your duty or fall to jahiliyya, join the Armed Islamic Group.”