A bombing targeted on August 26, 1992, Algeria’s Houari Boumedienne Airport. It was evidence that the country was headed towards a confrontation between the security forces and Islamist extremists. The bombing was not the first attack carried out by supporters of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) in wake of the annulment of elections which the party was on the brink of winning. The results of the first round of the elections were annulled in January 1992, marking the beginning of what is known in Algeria as the “Black Decade” that left thousands of casualties.