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Under Zitouni, the GIA hijacked an Air France flight to Algiers in December 1994, and mounted a series of bombings in France in 1995.
The GIA told all foreigners to leave the country under threat of death in 1993, and since September that year the GIA has been accused of killing over 100 foreign nationals.
However, the government and its security forces may be partially responsible for some of the violence, as they have been repeatedly accused of infiltrating and directing GIA attacks in order to weaken popular support for Islamists by continuing the trail of violence.
The GIA strategy for actions was to attack to government of Algeria, by defining anyone working for or with the government structures as target for their killings.
GIA was in strong opposition to competing Islamist groups, and issued death threats against several members of both FIS and MIA (Islamic Armed Movement).
The GIA never cooperated with FIS, and there was a strong political and ideological divide between the GIA and the militant portion of FIS, the AIS.
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