Some Algerian analysts speculated that the President was placing himself above partisan politics by abandoning his own party, which has ruled Algeria since the nation received its independence from France in 1962.

What is clear is that France, which ruled Algeria for 130 years before it was defeated in an independence war in 1962, cannot easily extract itself from involvement in the country's new war.

The Revolutionary Council was the body that ruled Algeria after the coup d'état in June 1965.

It is a shock to the aging generals who rule Algeria.

It is made up of army officers, former guerilla leaders, their families, friends, and assorted hangers-on who have assumed the right to rule Algeria since they won the 1962 war of independence.

It clearly reflects the outlook of the entrenched military-backed oligarchy that has ruled Algeria since independence from France in 1962.

The criticism of the new rulers included a sharp attack by an official of the National Liberation Front, which had ruled Algeria for all its 30 years of independence.

The F.L.N. has ruled Algeria ever since it achieved independence in 1962.

France ruled Algeria starting in 1830.

And for that he blames the "revolutionary" Governments that ruled Algeria after independence in 1962.