Mohamed Boudia, an Algerian activist;

He loved the theater and adopted issues of liberation in the world, led the Palestinian "Black September" operations in Europe, recruited "Carlos the Fox" in Moscow in favor of the Palestinian cause, and was assassinated by the Mossad in Operation "Wrath of God." After his assassination, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir said, "Finally the man died." The one with a thousand faces.

Birth and upbringing

Mohamed Boudia was born on February 24, 1932 in the ancient Kasbah neighborhood in central Algiers, where he received his first education and joined the ranks of the Algerian Islamic Scouts.

After that, his passion for theater led him to join the Regional Center for Dramatic Arts, with the beginning of the Algerian Revolution in 1954.

In the context of conscription;

Boudia joined the military service in Algiers and then in Dijon, France, where he met an Algerian theater group in the Parisian suburbs.

struggle path

Boudia began his political activity in the Algerian national movement in France, before becoming responsible for the Parisian cell of the Liberation Front;

Which carried out commando operations between 1957 and 1958, the most important of which was the bombing of oil pipelines in Marseille on August 25, 1958.

The Marseille process was the incident that drew the attention of the French authorities to the name of Mohamed Boudia, as one of the "most dangerous criminals", according to the reports of the French administration.

Then Boudia was arrested on the ninth of September 1958 by the French police and sentenced to 20 years in prison with hard labor, but he managed to escape on the tenth of September 1961, months before his country gained independence.

After independence, he was appointed director of the National Theater in 1963 at his request, during the era of former President Ahmed Ben Bella;

with whom he had a good relationship.

Boudia was also a friend of the Cuban fighter Fidel Castro, and organized courses and visits for artists from the Cuban theater to Algeria. He also decided to allocate the revenues of the summer season of the Algerian theater in 1964 to support the struggle of the Palestinian people.

His close relationship with President Ben Bella caused him direct hostility with Colonel Houari Boumediene, who turned against Ben Bella in June 1965.

On June 29, 1970, he was sentenced in absentia on charges of "forming a group of criminals and an assassination attempt," but Boudia had left Algeria since July 16, 1967.

His relationship with the Palestinian cause

The liberal and militant thought of Muhammad Boudiya contributed to establishing great and complex relations with prominent personalities in various countries of the world, whether in Europe, the Middle East, or even Latin America.

In Cuba, he had a great reputation among Castro's comrades, and it was there that he met Dr. Wadih Haddad, nicknamed "Abu Hani", the military official of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Boudia came out of this meeting with the conviction to contribute his field experience to the struggle for the Palestinian cause. He also came out with a kinetic name that would accompany him in his next movements, and it is the name "Abu Dia."

With his new nickname, "Abu Dia" joined Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, to enhance his strategic and military expertise, and there he had another meeting with one of the most prominent names in the list of "men who served the Palestinian cause."

And the records of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine confirm that Budiyah recruited in Moscow a young Venezuelan enthusiastic about the struggle against imperialism in the world, his name is "Illich Sanchez Ramirez", and his international fame is "Carlos", who masterminded the kidnapping of OPEC ministers in December 1975, in Vienna in order to support the Palestinian cause.

Carlos transferred the ministers to the airport, and then carried them on a plane to Algeria, and after painstaking negotiations it was agreed to release the hostages in exchange for 50 million dollars, in a historic operation, which Carlos called the "Martyr Muhammad Boudia".

Boudiya was the main mastermind of all the operations of the Popular Front in Europe in the early seventies, as reported by the French, British, American and Mossad intelligence reports, and despite that, no evidence was proven against him, especially with his permanent appearance in the theatrical dress present in Paris.

Algerian activist Mohamed Boudia was assassinated by booby-trapping his car with a mine that exploded on the morning of June 8, 1973 (French)

During his travels between Vienna and Geneva, he chose many pseudonyms, including: Bouillé, Maurice, Andrés, Bertan, Robert, Rodrigue, Roji, and Said bin Ahmed.

He used the name "Abu Khalil" during his frequent visits to the training camps of the Palestinian revolutionaries in the West Bank at the beginning of the seventies.

its operations

  • Planning to send 3 East German women to Jerusalem to bomb several Israeli targets.

  • Schönü Center bombing in Austria;

    Concerning the grouping of Jews of the Soviet Union immigrating to Israel.

  • The bombing of Israeli warehouses and an oil refinery in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

  • The hijacking of an Israeli plane at Lod Airport (Ben Gurion), west of Jerusalem, on May 8, 1972.

  • Operation of the Japanese Red Army cell against Israeli planes at Lod airport.

  • The bombing of an oil pipeline between Italy and Austria on August 5, 1972.

  • His participation in the Munich operation during the 1972 Olympics, by hosting Palestinian commandos before the operation, and then smuggled and hid them.

assassinate him

After the Munich Olympics, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir launched, under the supervision of the Mossad;

Operation "Wrath of God", which included the "X12" list, which requires the liquidation of 12 names of Palestinian leaders around the world.

Among them were Wadih Haddad, Abu Hassan Salama, Wael Zuaiter, Basil al-Kubaisi and Mahmoud al-Hamshari, and Muhammad Boudiya's name came on the list as "the man with a thousand faces."

On the morning of June 28, 1973, Muhammad Boudia was killed in a premeditated operation by the Israeli firing squad, with the participation of French security forces, in front of the university center on Foss Bernard Street in Paris, where he was parking his booby-trapped Renault 16 car.

French judge John Pascal investigated the incident, and did not reach any conclusions, and President Houari Boumediene allowed the burial of the body of the deceased in the train cemetery in Algiers.

And Israeli reports stated, 12 years after Boudia’s killing, that the officer, Silvia Raphael, was the leader of the assassination team, and she is “Spy No. 01.” Yacht in Larnaca, Cyprus.

However, investigations have shown that the spy, Silvia, continued her life in South Africa with her husband, Norwegian lawyer Aniosch Jawdat.

Former Prosecutor General of the Supreme Court in Oslo, until her death in 2005, and her burial in the Israeli kibbutz cemetery near the Palestinian town of Qalqilya (in the West Bank).

Rabin's former chief of staff wrote in the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper on October 3, 2005, "Muhammad Budiyah was a real terrorist."