slamic political party. The frustrations experienced by members of this political party resulted, according to Dalacoura (2006), in the establishment of a domestic insurgency which coalesced around the GIA and ushered in an all out civil war between Islamist radicals and the Algerian state.
Dalacoura (2006, p. 518) states that "the prerequisites for the radicalization of Algerian Islamism may have existed well before 1992." However, when the Islamic Action Front (FIS) won a surprising electoral victory in 1991, the Algerian army staged a coup. FIS wanted the election results ratified but GIA disagreed and become the most radical and violent of the insurgencies in Algeria.
Dalacoura (2006) takes the position that repression by the Algerian state against Islamic groups created the
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