Boumedienne, Krim's enemy from the earliest days, had come to power, Krim too went into exile and formed an opposition group. Declaring in 1969 that "seven years of independence were worse than seven years of war", Krim was sentenced to death (in absentia) on charges of treason and conspiring with foreign powers. He took to travelling heavily armed, but his undoing was indirectly caused by the sudden coming to notoriety of Leila Khaled and the Palestinian hijackers in the autumn of 1970; in an airport check his automatic was found and removed from him. A few days later he was discovered weaponless and murdered in a Frankfurt hotel. The means of his death seems, ironically, to have been the same as that which he had tacitly approved for Ramdane Abane in 1957 — strangling.

XREF: Mirrors the dynamics in Orwell's Animal Farm and Hannah Arendt's observations on revolutionary purges. FICTION: Irony of a conspirator being undone by airport security and dying by the same method he sanctioned is potent tragic material.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1674