Upon hearing that name, Captain Price confides in his team about an earlier mission in his career, where he and his Captain were sent on a covert mission to Pripyat to assassinate Zakhaev, but only managed to wound him. The SAS team finds Al-Asad in his safe house but through interrogation learns that he did not set off the warhead, instead, it was the Russian Ultranationalist leader, Imran Zakhaev. Al-Asad uses a nuclear warhead to decimate the area.

Believing that Al-Asad is cornered, the US army moves in, only to find out that it was a trap. Meanwhile, the US army invades the Middle East to stop Al-Asad. Bravo Team, assisted by Russian Loyalists, then rescue the Russian pilot Nikolai, who gave them the intelligence. The team manages to find the shipping manifest, and discover that Al-Asad is the perpetrator.

At the same time, the SAS' Bravo Team, led by Captain John Price, receives a new recruit named John 'Soap' MacTavish.īravo Team sets out on a mission to retrieve stolen nuclear materials, which are believed to be on a tanker in the middle of the sea. Call of Duty 4 opens with the dictator Khaled Al-Asad staging a coup in the Middle East. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare may not be a part of the same continuity as the current Modern Warfare series, but it is where fans got their first introduction to the iconic members of Task Force 141, and a few plot details do seep into the current timeline.

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