Abdullah Smith

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Abdullah Smith, a fictional character of the Left Behind novel series, is an aircraft pilot, known to Mac McCullum, and who first appears in the fifth book, Apollyon. McCullum refers Buck Williams to Abdullah Smith when Buck needs a flight back to America. Smith uses a supersonic Jordanian Air Force craft (now surplus since global disarmament) to ferry Buck home with a series of supersonic jumps, the last midpoint being in Greenland.

Abdullah is hired by the Global Community as first officer of the Condor 216 alongside fellow believer and captain Mac McCullum, and is later assigned as first officer of the Phoenix 216 after the Condor is destroyed in Johannesburg, South Africa.

He is presumed dead by the GC after the crash of a GC Quasi Two off of the coast of Israel. The Quasi is believed by the GC to be carrying McCullum, Smith, David Hassid, and Hannah Palemoon. All four actually live and are assigned different roles in the Tribulation Force, and had to escape the GC before they were required to take the mark of loyalty to GC Supreme Potentate and Antichrist Nicolae Carpathia.

In the Left Behind prequel novels "The Regime" and "The Rapture", we learn that Abdullah's birth name was Abdullah Ababneh; his Jordanian colleagues nicknamed him "Smith" and "Smitty" because of his fondness of America. Before the Rapture, he was a Muslim, but his wife became a Christian and divorced him. After she and their children are taken up to heaven in the Rapture, Abdullah is grief-stricken over their disappearance, and becomes a Christian to follow her example. Abdullah lived through the Tribulation period, and during the Millennium was led to preach to those at the Theological Training Institute in Amman, a front for the TOL (The Other Light) organization, and was present at the final battle at the end of the Millennium (as portrayed in the final book Kingdom Come), having lived a bit over 1000 years to that point.

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mid-thirties, former Jordanian fighter pilot, former first officer of the Phoenix 216, faked death in plane crash, a principle Trib Force pilot on assigment at Petra.

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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 • Naomi Tiberias • Eleazar Tiberias • Gustaf Zuckermandel, Jr. • Hannah Palemoon • Leah Rose • Annie Christopher
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Raymie Steele • Ekaterina Risto • Kenny Bruce Williams • Bahira Abaneh • Zaki Abaneh
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Joshua Todd-Cothran • Jonathan Stonagal • Gerald Fitzhugh • Qasim Marid
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