Habib Marwan

Evil-doer
Full Name	Habib Marwan
Alias	Harris Barnes Ace of Clubs
Origin	24
Occupation	Terrorist
Powers / Skills	Genius-level intelligence Sophistication Wisdom Intimidation Cunning Planning Great strength Great endurance Great resources Manipulation High-level fighting skills Gunmanship
Hobby	Wreaking destruction through terrorist attacks.
Goals	Kill Jack Bauer and use the Dobson Override device in order to cause nuclear power plants to melt down what will lead to the deaths of millions by its radiation (failed).
Crimes	Attempted genocide Murder Kidnapping Terrorism Conspiracy False imprisonment Crimes against humanity
Type of Villain	Genocidal Terrorist

“	People of America, you wake up today to a different world. One of your nuclear weapons has been used against you. It will be days and weeks before you can measure the damage we have caused. But, as you count your dead, remember why this has happened to you. You have no knowledge for the causes of the people you strike down or the nations you conquer. You choose to meddle in their affairs, without respect. You follow your government, unquestioningly, toward your own slaughter. Today, you pay the price for this ignorance....unless you renounce your policies of imperialism and interventionist activities. This attack would be followed by another....and another after that.	„
	~ Marwan's speech to the USA, revealing his plan.

Habib Marwan is the main antagonist in Season 4 of 24. He is the mastermind of many terrorist attacks.

He was portrayed by Arnold Vosloo, who also played Imhotep in The Mummy films, the Spirit Killer in Charmed, François Molay in Agent Cody Banks, Colonel Coetzee in Blood Diamond, Zartan in the G.I. Joe film series and Jacob Broadsky in Bones.

Biography

Marwan hired the Araz family and Omar. After one of his terrorists blew up a train, which was a cover for the true first phase of his plan, Omar's men kidnapped James Heller, the secretary of defense, and his daughter Audrey. He hired Mandy to assist him with this. Heller was to be executed for crimes he did not commit, but Jack Bauer rescued Heller and Audrey.

However, the kidnapping was a cover for Marwan's true plan, to acquire a device called the Dobson Override so he could use it to cause nuclear power plants to melt down, which would kill millions by radiation. All the reactors but one were eventually shut down bu CTU, but Marwan escaped when Jack and Curtis tried to capture him.

Jack had Dina Araz, whom he made a deal with to give her and her son Behrooz immunity from their involvement in Marwan's plan, take him hostage so he could get to Marwan. Marwan tested her loyalty by giving her an unloaded gun and telling her to kill Jack. Dina tried to shoot Marwan instead, so he had his men kill her.

As a distraction from his next attack, Marwan offered to trade Jack to CTU in exchange for Behrooz. They put tracking devices on him, while Marwan intended to kill Jack, but his sniper was killed, and Jack survived the exchange. Marwan found the tracking devices on Behrooz. He also got another of his men, Mitch Anderson, to shoot down President Keeler's plane, severely injuring him. Anderson was presumably killed by US fighters.

Marwan and his men then acquired the nuclear football, a briefcase containing all the firing codes for the US's nuclear warheads. Marwan set up a nightclub as his hideout, and was nearly captured by Jack and his team, but the attempted capture of Marwan failed due to the new president, Logan, arresting Jack for disobeying orders, and Marwan escaped again.

Marwan had his associate, Robert Morrison, launch a nuclear warhead at Los Angeles. He planned to escape in his helicopter, but was found once again by Jack, who was informed of his location by Mandy. CTU's objective was to take him alive so he could tell them the warhead's target. Marwan, knowing there was no escape this time, jumped off the balcony in a suicide attempt, but Jack grabbed onto his hand. Marwan cut Jack's hand to make him let go, and fell to his death.

Fortunately, CTU found information inside Marwan's helicopter that said where the warhead would strike, and it was shot down before it could destroy Los Angeles.

Trivia

• Habib Marwan is commonly considered the most well-prepared and successful of all 24 villains. For nearly five years he maintained and funded a number of terrorist sub-cells, primarily in Los Angeles, but ranging as far as Iowa and the East Coast. He had an enormous amount of subordinate terrorists and mercenaries, including Omar, Navi Araz, Henry Powell, Marianne Taylor, Ali, Mitch Anderson, Rafique, Joe Prado, Sabir Ardakani, Robert Morrison, Yassir, and Mandy. His plans resulted in the successful kidnapping of the Secretary of Defense, stealing the Dobson override, the destruction of a nuclear reactor, shooting down Air Force One, assassinating President John Keeler, stealing the nuclear football and almost firing a nuclear missile at Los Angeles.
  • The reason for this is probably because Marwan was originally supposed to appear in only six episodes of Season 4. However, the producers were so impressed by Arnold Vosloo's performance that they decided to make him the main antagonist of the entire season. He appeared in almost all of the remaining episodes of the season after this change. As a result of this prominence, Marwan is shown to have an extremely large amount of reserve resources such as manpower (including technicians), safehouses, technology, money and weaponry. As such, there is no explanation for how he acquired such vast resources.
• Marwan narrowly avoided capture four times, and then outright escaped from custody once, making him one of the most evasive terrorists faced in 24. His first escape was from IDS Data Systems, after he posed as a CTU field agent he killed, and murdered another who spotted him. Later he escaped from Rafique's warehouse in Boyle Heights as CTU raided it, then set off explosive charges hidden inside his computer systems. His next escape was evading Jack and some military helicopters at the wreckage site of the downed Air Force One in the Mojave Desert. Through the use of a tunnel at The Hub nightclub (as well as an inopportunely timed call for Bauer's arrest by Charles Logan), he was able to escape from there as well. Finally, after being captured by Jack and Curtis at the factory on 6th and Alameda, Marwan was freed by terrorists who had hidden themselves outside the factory and initially were undetected.
• Habib Marwan is the only 24 main antagonist who died before he could see his plans fail.
  • He is also the only 24 main antagonist to commit suicide. All the other villains were killed, either by a hero or another villain.
• Habib Marwan has the most American kills of any 24 villain. The fatalities caused by his meltdown of the nuclear reactor on San Gabriel Island were never counted, but an early estimate of the maximum potential death count was 50,000 persons. This figure was never revised, and the effectiveness of the mass evacuation was never described. The most confirmed kills on US soil, at least 13,000, belongs to one of the masterminds of Season 6, Abu Fayed. Internationally, Season 7 villain General Benjamin Juma was responsible for around 300,000 fatalities.
• In one deleted scene, Marwan met up with his wife, Hessa, and young son, Badar, to send them to safety in Mexico. However, this scene was cut to eliminate any feeling of compassion towards the terrorist.