Abu Fayed is a fictional character from the sixth season of the television series 24. He is played by actor Adoni Maropis.
Abu Fayed was a senior leader of an Islamic terrorist group led by Hamri Al-Assad. In the midst of a series of terrorist attacks in the United States seemingly masterminded by Assad, Fayed contacted the American government and offered to give up Assad's location in exchange for several demands: $25 million, Jack Bauer, and the relevant government satellite protocols to ensure he would not be tracked or observed.
Fayed sought revenge agaist Jack Bauer for the death of his brother, also a Muslim terrorist, whom Jack killed in Beirut in 1999.
Day 6
After being released from Chinese custody, Jack agreed to surrender himself to Fayed. While torturing Jack, Fayed revealed that not only was he the the mastermind of the attacks, but that Hamri al-Assad had renounced terrorism and had come to the United States to stop him. Thus, Fayed's offer of revealing Assad's location was a ruse intended to both eliminate his former comrade, dupe the American government into thinking the terrorists were leaderless, and extracting his revenge on Jack Bauer. However, Jack escaped from Fayed, located Assad, and saved him from a US airstrike.
After obtaining the final component for the bombs in the hour of 9:00 AM through 10:00 AM, Fayed and a few of his men hand off one of the suitcase nukes to a group of operatives in Valencia, where the bomb will be prepped before being brought to the intended target area. However, after Fayed leaves with the remaining four nukes, CTU storms the Valencia hideout. Cornered and with no escape, Fayed's men detonate the bomb. The suburb of Valenica is destroyed and roughly 12,000 people are killed.
In the next hour, Fayed contacts British businessman Darren McCarthy and asks him to find someone who can help them program an arming device and use the remaining suitcase nukes, since Fayed's nuclear engineer was killed in the Valencia detonantion. McCarthy's research leads him to Morris O'Brian.
Although Morris initially refuses to cooperate, Fayed forces his compliance by having his men beat him with a bat, hold his head underwater, and torture him with a power drill. To prove that the arming device works, and to distract CTU, Fayed arms one of the suitcase nukes (which Jack eventually defuses) then escapes via helicopter, with the remaining three nukes and the arming device.
After landing at an undisclosed location, Fayed calls Dmitri Gredenko, a former Russian general who supplied him with the suitcase nukes. Gredenko reprimands Fayed for "wasting" two of their bombs. After being told that the delivery systems for the nukes will reach their destination in two hours, Fayed tells Gredenko to use that time to reconfigure his plans for three nukes.
It is revealed in the 2:00–3:00 PM episode that Fayed is being used as a pawn by Gredenko, and that Gredenko plans to have him eliminated once he fulfills his usefulness. (This comes as no surprise, as the mutual antagonism between the two conspirators is plainly evident.)Fayed meets with Gredenko in the Mojave Desert, revealing their plan to use remote-controlled drones to launch the remaining three bombs at high-profile targets. The first drone, targeted at San Francisco, was crash-landed safely by Jack Bauer after locating and killing the drone pilot. However, the crash damaged the bomb loaded onboard, subsequently releasing radioactivity into the air thus creating a dirty bomb.
In the episode of 9:00–10:00 PM Fayed is set up to meet Gredenko at a pier, with Gredenko being tracked by CTU via a radioactive isotope injected in his arm. He meets Fayed, and they agree that to escape they have to get rid of the link to CTU, so they sever Gredenko's arm. They walk to a local bar where Gredenko screams that Fayed is the terrorist on the news, and Fayed is beaten by civilians in the bar until Jack Bauer arrives and brings Fayed into custody.
Despite Jack's best efforts, Fayed refuses to speak under torture during his captivity. Subsequently, Jack and Doyle stage a "rescue mission" of Fayed by Arabic CTU agents during his transfer to CTU to undergo pharmaceutically-based torture.
Meanwhile, Fayed's superior; General Mahmoud Habib, since revealed to be a partner of Fayed's, is detained and tortured in his native country in order to reveal the location of the bombs. Despite having earlier aborting an alleged nuclear attack on the country (the missle wasn't actually armed), President Palmer persuades the ambassador to threaten Habib's children with execution so the general would convince Fayed refused to go to his safehouse with his supposed rescuers. It is also worth noting that a similar method of coercion was used by Jack Bauer against Sayed Ali in season 2.
However, the General Habib manages to use a codeword to convey to Fayed that he is under duress, which Nadia is quick to realize after going over the call's transcripts. While Fayed and his supposed rescuers drive through a tunnel, CTU loses contact with their Arab agents, who are subsequently killed by Fayed. Fayed escapes the tunnel and commandeers a tanker truck, but Bauer manages to hide underneath it during the ride, thus tracking Fayed to a warehouse where the remaining suitcase nukes are being guarded. Following a gunfight in which Bauer kills Fayed's men, Fayed and Bauer engage in hand to hand combat. Although Fayed gains the upper hand by attacking Jack with a wrench, eventually Jack manages to block Fayed's blows with a chain suspended from the ceiling, which he then wraps around Fayed's neck and activiates the hydraulics that yank the chain upward, lifting Fayed off the ground by his neck and killing him by strangulation.