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(PFLP). He was assassinated in

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by a car bomb placed under his seat by

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agents as part of

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. At the time of his assassination, Boudia was the Chief of PFLP operations in Europe. Boudia was replaced by Michel Moukharbal. Boudia had participated in the

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, during which he was jailed for an attack on a petrol depot in southern France. The end of the war and Algerian independence in 1962 led to his release, after spending three years in prison. Boudia was a playwright, and after independence, he became the director of Algeria's national theatre. He fled to France after

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seized power in June 1965 and ran a theatre in Paris, whilst collaborating with figures such as

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, pp30-31

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