Sahib Ashman
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Sahib Ashman is a fictional character from the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED. He is voiced by Masashi Hirose in the original Japanese version and by Fred Henderson in the English dub.
Sahib Ashman is the leader of Desert Dawn, a resistance group in North Africa fighting to oust ZAFT from their homeland, which is occupied by Andrew Waltfeld also known as The Desert Tiger. Although Sahib believes the Earth Aliance is no different from ZAFT, he and his fellow resistance fighters come to the aid of the Archangel and its lone mobile suit, the GAT-X105 Strike, while they are fighting a legion of BuCUEs under the command of the Desert Tiger. In order to punish the Desert Dawn for interfering in his assault on the Archangel, the Desert Tiger ordered an assault on the town of Tassil, which served as a base of operations for the Desert Dawn. Even though none of the townspeople were killed in this assault, the Desert Tiger and his men destroyed all of their food and supplies, which angers and drives several of the resistance fighters, including Cagalli Yula Athha, to recklessly chase after the BuCUES in an attempt to kill the Tiger despite Sahib's best efforts to reason with them. Sahib follow these resistance fighters only to find that several of them, including Cagalli's good friend Ahmed El-Fasi, have already been killed. Luckily, the Strike intervenes just in time when one of the BuCUEs is about to run over Sahib as well and forces them to retreat.
The Desert Dawn and the Archangel unite for one final assault against the Desert Tiger and emerge victorious thanks in large part to Kira Yamato who delivered the final blow while piloting the Strike. Afterwards, the Desert Dawn and the Archangel part ways with Sahib vowing to keep on fighting until his people are left alone to govern themselves. During the Second War, Ashman's Desert Dawn guerillas are seen attacking the home of a Logos member, and, from the evidence on screen, said member appeared to be Lord Djibril himself. During the conclusion of the Battle of The Messiah, Ashman watched Messiah crash into the moon, though he didn't seem as emotional as some of his men in the background.
