12 May, 2007 -- It is 50 years since the violent campaign began against the French in Algeria.

One of the so-called terrorists who led the so-called Algerian Liberation Front is today still being asked by terrorist organisations about the guerilla warfare he used to gain the country's independence.

More4 News has been to see him as The Battle of Algiers, the film about the Algerians' independence struggle is about to be re-released.

Fought between 1954 and 1962 the bitter conflict in Algeria cost as many 1.5m lives. On one side was the might of the French army and thousands of French Algerians determined to keep Algeria under the rule of Metropolitan France, on the other, was a vast Muslim popular uprising and its vanguard, the FLN.

Saadi Yacef was a commander in the FLN, a group labeled by the French as a terror organisation: