Abdul-Aziz al-Razim

"Well spoken Alex. My friends at Scorpia told me you were someone to be reckoned with and they were certainly right. I am willing to accept that you have managed to work out at least part of what we are planning. You have seen the rifle. it is common knowledge that the Secretary of State is here. But it is too late to stop us, and I can assure you that you have no idea what we are really planning."

- Razim to Alex Rider.

Abdul-Aziz al-Razim is the main antagonist of Scorpia Rising, the ninth book in the Alex Rider series. He is a former member of Al Qaeda and the Mukhabarat, and a board member in the criminal organisation Scorpia who is assigned to carry out Operation Horseman.

Biography
Early Life Razim was born in the Iraqi town of Tikrit in 1966. Growing up, he was a difficult child, driving away all the nannies his parents attempted to install in the household (stabbing at least one of them in the thigh with a pair of scissors). He was also apparently a genius, although he quickly began to realise that he was different from other children in one key way: he didn't feel emotions. In order to put this to the test, he strangled his dog in the orchard to see if this would make him feel sad. It didn't.

After came to power, Razim heard about an incident in which he forced party members accused of treason to execute other party members, and decided that he supported Saddam as they shared sadistic tendencies. Soon after, his parents, immediately realising Saddam was insane, held a meeting with several high-ranking friends to discuss how they could get rid of him, not realising Razim was recording the whole thing, which he then handed over to the police, resulting in the execution of his parents and their friends, and the implied rape of his sister Rima, who Razim last saw being dragged screaming from the house by four laughing officers, who threw her in their van. After this, Razim was called in to talk with the commissioner of police, who informed him he was being placed with foster parents, narrowly resisting the urge to shoot Razim in the process due to his unnerving lack of any real emotion regarding his parents execution.