Waraabe Burhaan Ashkir (1983 - 8 October 2016) was a Somali warlord and commander of the African Militia, a loosely organized Islamist ethnic terrorist organization spanning to Sierra Leone. Waraabe assisted Vladimir Makarov in the production and smuggling of chemical weapons to major cities across Europe using Fregata Industries. He was killed by Captain John Price of Task Force 141 after interrogating him in Bosaso.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Waraabe was born in 1983 in Mogadishu, Somalia. When he was ten years old, his father was killed in the Battle of Mogadishu by US Army Rangers defending the downed helicopters, cementing his hatred of the West. Waraabe served in the Somali National Army from 2001 to 2013, when he learned English. When he became an officer and learned all he could about tactics, he left and joined the African Militia, seeking to be their leader.
African Militia service[]
Waraabe rose to the top of the Militia after staging a coup against the previous leader. He expanded the African Militia from Somalia westwards to Sierra Leone, targeting and killing many ethnic groups as part of a systematic genocide to control the populations of central Africa. Waraabe also targeted religious adherents to any religion that was not Sunni Islam.
He obtained funds through the production and sale of narcotics, commercial piracy, arms dealing, human trafficking, terrorism, and homicide. These crimes marked Waraabe for capture or killing by Interpol, entering their most wanted in 2015.
World War III[]
In August 2016, during the early stages of World War III, Waraabe was contacted by Viktor "Volk" Khristenko, a Russian Ultranationalist and CEO of Fregata Industries who served as a messenger between Vladimir Makarov and Waraabe.
After some negotiating and a steep payment, Waraabe agreed to have his men smuggle arms and chemical weapons to Inner Circle operatives and the Russian Army forces that agreed to fight under Makarov once he enacted a coup d'état against President Boris Vorshevsky. These were distributed by smuggling the goods from Sierra Leone into Morocco and then into Spain.
Death[]
On 5 October, Captains John Price and John "Soap" MacTavish as well as Yuri Astakhov assaulted a factory in Imperi, Sierra Leone, though were unable to stop the Mi-8 Hip from taking off with the chemical shipments. After the chemical attacks the next day, Baseplate informed Price that Waraabe oversaw the shipments to Europe from Bosaso, Somalia, though his intel was the full extent that he could help his former protégé at the time. Task Force 141 assaulted Bosaso alongside Russian Loyalist PMC Chimera on 8 October, mere minutes before a sandstorm was to hit the town.
As 141 entered the main building, Waraabe attempted to exfil though his room was breached before this could happen. Price, Soap, and Astakhov put on their gas masks as Price threw an open chemical gas canister in the corner of the room. He baited Waraabe with a mask, interrogating him on Makarov's whereabouts. He told Price that they never met Makarov, only Volk, and that Volk managed the operation in Paris, France. Price then threw him the mask, before shooting him in the head, proclaiming that it "was for the boys at Hereford."