Khaled Al-Assad is a supporting antagonist in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2007 or 7 AH).
Biography[]
Khaled Al-Assad was born May 1, 1963 in Medina, Saudi Arabia. He joined the Saudi Arabian Army in the 1980s and by 2003, he rose to the rank of a colonel, right below the general. It was around 2004 when he met three FSB agents from Russia named Vladimir Makarov, Imran Zakhaev and his son Viktor Zakhaev. They supplied him with weapons and equipment. The four of them had their own cross-country squad known as “the Four Horsemen.” Khaled Al-Assad was known as the “Second Horseman.” He is not to be mistaken with the Syrian dictator, Bashar Al-Assad, nor are they related.
In 2007, Viktor Zakhaev brought a Saudi journalist who spoke out against the Saudi government named Yasir Al-Fulani in a car to a stadium where Khaled Al-Assad was broadcasting a speech on national television. There, Al-Fulani was tied to a post and executed by Khaled Al-Assad with a pistol handed to him by Imran Zakhaev who was standing right there the whole time. What followed was a mass purging of Al-Fulani’s supporters and followers. Any opposition to Khaled Al-Assad was met with brutal and excessive force.
The United States and the United Kingdom started a military invasion of his group in the Middle East in order to hunt him down. The Americans located a television station where Al-Assad was broadcasting his speech but it turned out that the speech was pre-recorded and Al-Assad went into hiding.
Al-Assad was eventually located in the capital city of Saudi Arabia and a large-scale attack was launched onto it and him. He wasn’t found in the city but the American forces found a Russian nuclear warhead in his palace. Teams were sent in order to disarm the weapon but the warhead was detonated by Al-Assad on Vladimir Makarov’s orders, wiping out the entire U.S. invasion force, leaving no survivors. The American government swore revenge against the Four Horsemen for this.
The British spy agency discovered that Al-Assad was hiding in his safe house in Azerbaijan where he was protected by a team of FSB agents. Jonathan Price, John McTavish and several other British soldiers were dispatched to the location where Al-Assad was hiding alongside a Russian defector named Nikolai. Eventually, Al-Assad was captured by them.
Jonathan Price tied Al-Assad to a chair and began interrogating him then intercepted a call from Al-Assad’s cellphone. Recognizing the caller as Imran Zakhaev, Jonathan Price shot Al-Assad in the head. After Al-Assad was killed, the Americans and the British realized that the whole thing was masterminded by Imran Zakhaev, who began to saw Al-Assad as a thorn in his side and wanted to get rid of him.