Ali Al-Saachez

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Ali Al-Saachez
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 character
First appearance	Episode 6, Seven Swords
Voiced by	Keiji Fujiwara
Profile
Aliases	Gary Bradge (AEU French Foreign Legion)
Age	35 39 (After Time Skip)
Nationality	Kurdish Republic
Information
Allegiance	PMC Trust AEU
Mobile weapons	AEU-09 AEU Enact AEU-09Y812 AEU Enact (Ali Al-Saachez custom) GNW-002 Gundam Throne Zwei

Ali Al-Saachez (アリー・アル・サーシェス, Ali Al-Saachez^?) is a fictional character and a major antagonist in the Gundam series, Mobile Suit Gundam 00. He first pilots the AEU-09 AEU Enact while in the PMC Trust, he then pilots the AEU-09Y812 AEU Enact (Ali Al-Saachez custom), but later pilots the GNW-002 Gundam Throne Zwei after stealing it from Michael Trinity.

He is voiced by Keiji Fujiwara ^[1].

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The nemesis of Setsuna and Lockon and a primary villain in the series. Ali Al-Saachez is the man whose voice recording was being broadcasted across the Kurdish battlefield in the events leading up to the appearance of the O Gundam in AD 2301. Currently a top field officer under the private military contractor known as the PMC Trust. He has some relationship with Setsuna's past. After Setsuna found his secret base where he was hiding the kidnapped Massoud Rachmadi, he was left with no doubt as to the identity of the pilot of Exia. Saachez considers himself a mercenary, and flies the latest AEU Enact mobile suit. However, France promised him the mobile suit Agrissa to capture the Exia unit. He was serving in the French Foreign Legion under the assumed name of Gary Bradge of the 4th Independent Squadron.

He is an excellent mobile suit pilot and a cunning strategist. He has been shown to fight Gundams to a standstill with a mere Enact mobile suit. Furthermore, he is also shown to be highly skilled in the arts of hand-to-hand combat. However, he would rather not engage directly if the chance to have an advantage is given beforehand, like when he shot Johann Trinity on the shoulder before a Gundam battle or ambushed the Dynames Gundam from behind.

In the past, Saachez attempted to create a group of freedom fighters and convinced young children that they were fighting in the name of God. It is made clear in the same episode that Saachez commanded children to murder their own parents as proof of faith and devotion ^[2]. Thus Setsuna's hatred towards him is due to the fact that Saachez influenced him to murder his parents. He is a man addicted to war and does not want it to end. By his own admission, he is the 'worst kind of human'. His love of war seems to fuel his opposition to Celestial Being. Saachez murders Kinue Crossroad, after telling her top secret information. He later expressed interest in obtaining one of the 30 GN-X units in order to battle against Celestial Being.

A clean-shaven Ali as Gary Bradge, dressed in a standard AEU uniform, meets with Sergei Smirnov on one of the UN Army's transport ships.

After killing Kinue Crossroad and Laguna, Ali pursued the Trinity siblings to an island where they were supposed to rendezvous with Wang Liu Mei. After shooting Michael Trinity, he steals the Throne Gundam Zwei. After bypassing its biometric security system using Veda, he overwhelms Gundams Eins and Drei, killing a weakenened Johann Trinity in the process. However, Setsuna arrives just in time on the battlefield to rescue Nena, the sole survivor of the Trinity siblings. With the assistance of the Trans-Am back-up program set up by Aeolia Schenberg, Setsuna's Gundam manages to beat Ali. Nevertheless, Ali successfully retreats from the battlefield to fight another day.

Later, Saachez, under his alternate identity, joins the UN assault force attack on the Meisters. Saachez, true to his nature, does not charge headlong into the conflict like the rest of the UN Army. Instead he hangs back, only moving in to engage the Gundams with Throne Zwei when they are distracted or overwhelmed. He finds Lockon destroying the carrier ships with his GN Arms and is able to destroy it. Saachez and Lockon engage in a vicious close-range battle. Saachez realizes that Lockon cannot see on his right side after Daryl Dodge interrupts their duel to attempt to avenge his fallen comrades. Using Zwei's GN Fangs, Saachez is able to severely cripple Dynames, forcing a retreat into an asteroid field. As Saachez searches for Dynames, Lockon, who has exited the suit, targets Zwei using one of the GN Cannons from his destroyed GN Arms. Saachez spots Lockon and charges at him after a heat signature is detected by his unit. While Saachez fires a shot from Throne Zwei's GN Handgun to critically damage the GN Cannon, Lockon fires a shot from the GN Cannon that destroys Throne Zwei. Ali Al Saachez survived the Zwei's explosion through unknown means. Four years later, he is seen with a drink in hand and seems to be frustrated, most likely about the union of the world via the newly-formed Earth Sphere Federation and its dissolving of each member nation's armies, replacing each with an Earth Sphere Federation peacekeeping army. Because of such, more or less, war is no longer necessary.

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