Al B
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Al Basrah, Al B, or Albie, is a character in the Left Behind series of novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. A Muslim by faith, he has connections to the black market and supplies things for Mac McCullum; he is in his late forties. Rayford Steele is introduced to him immediately after the Wrath of the Lamb earthquake, as Rayford wants scuba equipment to take a dive into the Tigris River in search of the crashed plane his wife Amanda White Steele was supposed to be aboard.
Albie, who worked at Al Basrah Airport, obtains other items for Rayford, including an assassin's gun, the Saber, that Rayford uses to try to assassinate Antichrist Nicolae Carpathia, just three days after Carpathia used such a gun to kill the two God-sent, prophetic witnesses Eli and Moishe at the Wailing Wall. Between when Albie obtains the gun for Rayford, and Carpathia's death and resurrection, Albie becomes a believer.
Albie also fakes an identity as Global Community peacekeeping deputy commander Marcus Elbaz, and although he shows the mark of a believer, his actions sometimes make Rayford suspicious, yet Rayford does not follow through on a desire to check the mark. Albie's goading is partly responsible for Rayford becoming a more responsible, assertive leader of the Tribulation Force.
Albie is killed by an old friend - who is now loyal to the GC - in Armageddon.
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Major Characters in Left Behind Series Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
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| Original Tribulation Force Members: Rayford Steele | Cameron "Buck" Williams | Chloe Steele | Bruce Barnes |
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| Other Tribulation Force Members: Tsion Ben-Judah | Chaim Rosenzweig | Albie | Mac McCullum | Abdullah Smith | David Hassid | Chang Wong | Ming Toy | Ree Woo | Ken Ritz | Lionel Whalum | George Sebastian | Priscilla Sebastian | Amanda White | T. M. Delanty | Lukas Miklos | Floyd Charles | Hattie Durham | Steve Plank | Razor | Otto Weser | Naomi Tiberias | Eleazar Tiberias | Gustaf Zuckermandel, Jr. | Hannah Palemoon | Leah Rose | Annie Christopher | Marcel Papadopoulos | Georgiana Stavros |
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| The Global Community: Nicolae Carpathia | Leon Fortunato | Viv Ivins | Suhail Akbar | Walter Moon | Peter Mathews | Marilena Carpathia | Reiche Planchette | Aurelio Sequoia Figueroa | Jim Hickman | Ramon Santiago | Clancy Tiber | Guy Blod |
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| Others: Joshua Todd-Cothran | Jonathan Stonagal | Bo Hanson | Samuel Hanson | Anika Janssen | Bernadette Rice | Gerald Fitzhugh |
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