Ghazi
- "Are you blind? Its a bomb"
— Ghazi to his friend
Ghazi is a character that appears in the film, The Sum of All Fears.
Biography
Ghazi worked as a scrap collector in Syria, scavenging debris from past wars such as the Yom Kippur War. In September 2002, Ghazi was called by his friend to help load a large object out of a hole he had dug in Golan Heights. When his friend asked what it was, Ghazi informed him that it was a bomb. Ghazi then reached inside the bomb to try and find it's fuse. Not finding anything, Ghazi told his friend that the bomb was warm, unaware that it was nuclear and that he had exposed himself to a lethal amount of radiation. Ghazi and his friend then hoisted the bomb out of the hole, which dropped after the cable snapped. Seeing the bomb as a dud, Ghazi asked his friend how they would sell it now, only to be told that there was always someone willing to buy things like this.
Both men later met with Derek Olson and explained through a translator that they had found it in Golan Heights. Olson then asked if either of them had witnessed any fighting back in the 1970s. While Ghazi had been too young by then, his friend told Olson that he had lost a son during the war and confirmed that an Israeli plane had been shot down in that area. Olson then told Ghazi's friend that the bomb was worthless but offered him four hundred dollars because of his son.
A month later, Ghazi was suffering from severe radiation sickness after being exposed from the bomb. The local doctor had never seen a case before and posted about Ghazi's condition on the internet to receive help. This led John Clark to travel to Ghazi, posing as a doctor. After Clark reassured him that he was not going to get in trouble, Ghazi revealed how they had found and sold a bomb. Ghazi was then told by Clark that while he was going to die, they could help those who had also been exposed to the bomb if they knew who it had been sold to. Finally, Ghazi told Clark that they had sold it to Olson who was a known arms dealer in Damascus. With this information, the CIA hacked into Olson's computer and learned that the bomb had been sold to Richard Dressler for $40 million and that he was the man behind the attack on Baltimore.
Gallery
Ghazi and his friend meeting with Derek Olson
Ghazi suffering from the effects of radiation sickness.
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