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Drawing on a juxtaposition of the New York Times Book Review with Bob Woodward’s Veil and its CIA “code word” for covert operations, the text challenges the idea that terrorism is only the horror of an enemy. It reframes terrorism through decolonizing campaigns in Algeria, focusing on how Fanon’s “historic dynamism of the veil” and women’s agency shaped resistance leading to independence in 1962.","Terrorism(Un)Veiled:Frantz Fanonand the Women of Algiers  \nJeffrey Louis Decker  \nShe was therefore enveloped in veils and flowing robes likeexplosive material which has to be well packed.In some Arabsocieties,this uncovering of a finger or a toe was considered apotential source of fitna [i.e.,chaos motivated by feminineseductiveness]in society which might therefore lead to anar-chy,uprisings,rebellions and the total destruction of the es-tablished order!  \n—Nawal El Saadawi  \nTruth is not an unveiling which destroys the secret,but therevelation which does it justice.  \n—Walter Benjamin  \nAphotograph of war-torn Beirut,1985,runs alongside the NewYork Times Book Review cover story of Bob Woodward's bookentitled Veil:The Secret Wars of the CIA,1981-1987.1 Everywhere in  \nthe photograph are signs of the manichean conflict between thefirst world and postcolonial societies.In the background is the faceof a building desolated by an explosion.Hanging from the edges ofthe wrecked facade are banners inscribed with the English words“MADE IN USA”and “DEATH TO USA.”In the foreground ofthe picture three conspicuously veiled Muslim women in black garbmove silently past.Two of these women return the photographer'sgaze.The scopic effect on the first-world viewer is that the voyeursees himself or herself being seen.2  \nThe third Muslim woman mottles my perception.Lookingelsewhere,her gaze exceeds the frame of the picture and frus-trates my desire to realize the object of her look.Furthermore,thethird woman appears to be in the process of lowering her veil inorder to uncover her face.Where will her gaze move next?Will itbe in my direction?Yet,when I look again,she seems to be simul-taneously raising her veil over her face in a gesture that will serveto conceal her body completely.What is she hiding?As a Westernobserver,I wonder...Why do they look that way?3  \nAs stated above,this photograph is placed next to the reviewof Woodward's book Veil.The book discloses the fact that theAmerican Central Intelligence Agency functions primarily byradically concealing its operations from the public—first as well asthird world.This comes as no surprise to anyone who knows thehistory of the CIA;and Woodward's Veil adds evidence to thehistorical record by uncovering for the reader a number of recent  \ncovert campaigns.4 As Woodward's title indicates,and as he sug-gests within his expose,“Veil”is the code word par excellence forthe CIA's internal operations—campaigns that fall under themodern definition of,and yet always remain an unspoken formof,terrorism.  \nBut there is more here than meets the eye.Why the veil?Specifically,why should the Reagan administration CIA choose“Veil”as the “top-secret code word for covert operations”5一particularly covert operations directed against an orthodox Mus-lim society such as Libya?More broadly speaking,what signifi-cance does the veil have in the history of terrorism?My project isto theorize the cultural force of the veil within the discourse ofterrorism in an effort to understand better terrorism as a re-sponse to contemporary historical crises.This will,I hope,assistan ongoing effort to reconstruct what has been excluded from theWestern historical register:namely,the struggles of third-worldpeople and,more specifically,women's place within thesemovements.  \nTerrorism,as it is constructed in Western discourse,signifiesall that is horrific concerning the violent tactics of “our”enemies,especially those enemies who “hide out”in the Middle East andneighboring regions.However,it must be acknowledged thatthere is no force more terroristic than the violence of the “legiti-  \n5.Woodward,Veil,4.  \nmate”nation-state (I am referring to the CIA's Phoenix Program,the government-sponsored death squads in Central and SouthAmerica,the destruction of entire cities during World War II,etc.).It seems to me that,following the recent work of RichardRubenstein,terrorism can only be defined as “politically moti-vated violence engaged in by a sm","cbCaig9B2z019p2C","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaig9B2z019p2C","pdf",311162,5,1,19,"English","en",105,"# Framing the Veil Through Terrorism\n## CIA Secrecy, Code Words, and Covert Violence\n## Rethinking Terrorism and “Legitimate” State Violence\n# Decolonial Context in Algeria\n## FLN Resistance and the Politics of Terror\n## Fanon’s “Algeria Unveiled” and the Historic Dynamism of the Veil\n## Women as Political Agents in the Revolution\n# Toward an Integrated Account of Feminine Specificity","[{\"question\":\"What does the “veil” symbolize in the paper’s discussion of terrorism?\",\"answer\":\"The veil is treated as a cultural force that shapes discourse about terrorism and also as a historically dynamic political instrument when manipulated by women in 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