Wafi Nagi

Affiliation: Iraqi government

Position: Senior member of the Sunni bloc

Background

Life is good for you and your family. You live in Baghdad in a very fine house. Your children attend an elite school. Your wife is very happy. You have a comfortable job that pays well. You have influence, money and power. Who could want more?

Not everyone is happy with you, particularly those who helped you get into your current position. In fact, they're downright angry at you, saying that you haven't done enough for them. It is true, of course. There is no great advantage in Iraq to having long-lasting ties to insurgents. They did a very helpful thing in catapulting you into a government position, but if you want to progress further you need to distance yourself from them.

You are a natural politician and leader. This has always been the case. It is how you made yourself the spokesman for a group of Sunni insurgents during the early years of the war. Once there you set your sights on higher goals and with your skill at rhetoric (and willingness to undercut any opposition) you made your way into government. You got a seat in the government and the insurgents you represented agreed to a ceasefire. In the past two years you've worked your way rapidly up the ranks into a senior position in the Sunni bloc of the Iraqi government. You have every expectation that you can become the Sunni Vice President of Iraq within a few years.

Of course, there is a very major hurdle that has to be cleared first. His name is Sabriya Nejem. He is the commander of the Sunni insurgents that you once represented. He's a hard-liner who doesn't recognize the political realities... and knows your ambition entirely too well. He caught word of this meeting today and decided to show up unannounced, claiming that you had invited him. It is all too likely that he's going to threaten to end the ceasefire if you don't get the concessions he wants. You have to find some way to distance yourself from him and keep the ceasefire intact. The last thing you need is to be affiliated with a faction that starts a new round of fighting.

Of course, you've made new connections to acquire your current influence. For one, you've got a running agreement with Aegis Defence Services, the British military contractor. You help British businesses with ties to Aegis get oil contracts and they provide you with a lot of money and some extra political support. In the past few months, Blackwater has also been sounding you out. They've hinted that they can make your old "friends" disappear for you, but haven't yet mentioned a price. If things get bad enough with Sabriya, you may want to consider a deal of some sort.

Contacts

Joseph Prince: From everything you have heard, this man is a modern-day Christian crusader, and the owner of Blackwater. If you must deal with men such as this to assure a good life for yourself and your family, it is unfortunate, but a necessity nonetheless.

Erik Schmitz: He is the man who actually keeps Blackwater running, and a skilled military commander by all accounts. It is he who mentioned that Blackwater may be able to remove Sabriya Nejem and those who work closely with him from the equation. You hope that the price is one you can afford to pay if Sabriya will not listen to reason.

Field Marshall Lord Lockwood: Lockwood, the head of Aegis Defense Services, is an easy man to deal with. He cares about money before anything else and is always looking for a way to earn some more money. He has a lot of political muscle and his support could help you considerably.

Veronica Miles: She is from the U.S. State Department and could be a very useful source of money and political clout if you could win her over. You have never met her before, but most of these Americans are pretty much the same.

Tariq Ibn Faruq: You know little about the military commander of Al-Araf. What is most important to you is that he not upset the precarious balance inside Iraq.

Sabriya Nejem: As the commander of the Sunni insurgents you represented before getting your current position, he is your greatest threat. He must be sidelined, undermined, payed off, or somehow made to disappear. Yet replacing the Sunni insurgents who backed you is impossible without significant other support from elsewhere.

David Kinder: The UN moderator who is here to oversee these talks. While nowhere near as influential as the United States itself or the various military contractors, the UN is still a potential source of political support.

Basit Ibn Karim: The Prime Minister is a hard-line Shiite who wants a strong Iraq, free of foreign influence. He has so far looked past the differences of Sunnis and Shiites in the interest of undermining external influence, but you do not know how long that would last if the foreigners left.

Imad Ibn Junayd: The assistant to Basit Ibn Karim is nothing more than a "yes man". No one sucks up that much without wanting something they have not gotten yet.

Munir Faiz: He is the head of the Classical Liberal Party and completely in the pockets of the United States and foreign business interests. If only there room enough for two senior politicians to take that mantle you might be able to shake loose from your past.

Emel Faiz: She seems to have her husband wrapped around her little finger. She is the one who truly holds the power in that relationship.

Abilities

Stats

• Combat: 2
• HP: 4
• Sanity: 5

Pay Off Insurgents

Because of your connections and affluence, you can take control of one visible Sunni insurgent unit by paying them $5 million. You can do this only once by turning in this card to the Map GM.

Goals

• Maintain or increase your influence in the Iraqi government.
• Assist Aegis in return for their political support.
• Keep the Sunni insurgents from breaking the current ceasefire.
• Distance yourself from the Sunni insurgents that got you into office.