Ali La Pointe
Seeing his potential, FLN(National Liberation Front), militants explained to him that Algeria was a victim of colonialism and recruited him to their cause. After a trial conducted by Yacef Saadi to test his commitment (which he successfully passed) he was hired in the FLN. Within few months he became an important member of FLN. It was Ali who first suggested the idea to FLN leaders of a hidden passageway that, in case of alert, would permit fighters to rapidly reach the terraces of the houses situated near our hideout of the moment. The idea was often put into practice and in many cases allowed fighters to escape and save their lives. At these moments, Ali put to use all the techniques of his craft as a mason. According to Christopher Cradock and M.L.R. Smith, "the chief assassin" for FLN. After some figures of the local underworld suspected of being informants were executed by Ali, such as Rafai Abdelkader, Said Bud Abbot and Hocine Bourtachi, he "sowed terror" in the casbah, according to Marie-Monique Robin, a documentary filmmaker and TV journalist by applying "revolutionary instructions, such as not allowing drinking alcohol or smoking".