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Image by Antonio Martins, 1 May 1999
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The [current national] flag is said to be a variation of the flag of liberational
forces of Abd el-Kader in 1837-1847, but there is not proof of that.
zeljko heimer 28 November 1995
Image by Jorge Candeias, 15 March 1999
In Crampton '90 there are two flags depicted in the Algerian section, without any text except the caption.
The first one is: a red field with a moor's head
in the canton. Crampton's caption says that this is "a pirate flag from the
Barbary Coast as shown on an eighteenth-century flag chart". This text
seems to me to contain some doubts on the veracity or accuracy of this
image, doesn't it? Anyway, it's hard to concile such a design with the
known muslim reluctance in the representation of the human figure.
Jorge Candeias, 15 March 1999
It doesn't look very frightening IMHO.
Jarig Bakker, 16 March 1999