Sayid Hassan Jarrah (Arabic: سعيد حسّان جراح Sa‘īd Ḥassān Jarrāḥ) is a character from the ABC show Lost.
The son of an Iraqi war hero from the Iran–Iraq War, Sayid served as a communications officer in the Iraqi Republican Guard and is a skilled radio and mechanical engineer. During the Gulf War, Sayid's base was captured by the Americans. Since he is the only Iraqi in his squad to speak English, he is forced to ask his superior officer about a...
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Sayid Hassan Jarrah (Arabic: سعيد حسّان جراح Sa‘īd Ḥassān Jarrāḥ) is a character from the ABC show Lost.
The son of an Iraqi war hero from the Iran–Iraq War, Sayid served as a communications officer in the Iraqi Republican Guard and is a skilled radio and mechanical engineer. During the Gulf War, Sayid's base was captured by the Americans. Since he is the only Iraqi in his squad to speak English, he is forced to ask his superior officer about a missing U.S. pilot. When Sayid learns of a planned attack on his home village, his head captor, Kelvin Inman forces Sayid to torture his superior officer to gain the information of the missing pilot, who he learns was executed earlier. At the end of the Gulf War, Sayid is released back into the Republican Guard. Inman tells him that he now has a valuable gift of being able to gain information. Sayid swears that he will never torture again, but later becomes a torturer for the Guard. At one point, he learns his victim is his childhood friend...
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