Abdullah Smith
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Abdullah Smith, a fictional character of the Left Behind novel series, is an aircraft pilot, known to Mac McCullum, and who first appears in the fifth book, Apollyon. McCullum refers Buck Williams to Abdullah Smith when Buck needs a flight back to America. Smith uses a supersonic Jordanian Air Force craft (now surplus since global disarmament) to ferry Buck home with a series of supersonic jumps, the last midpoint being in Greenland.
Abdullah is hired by the Global Community as first officer of the Condor 216 alongside fellow believer and captain Mac McCullum, and is later assigned as first officer of the Phoenix 216 after the Condor is destroyed in Johannesburg, South Africa.
He is presumed dead by the GC after the crash of a GC Quasi Two off of the coast of Israel. The Quasi is believed by the GC to be carrying McCullum, Smith, David Hassid, and Hannah Palemoon. All four actually live and are assigned different roles in the Tribulation Force, and had to escape the GC before they were required to take the mark of loyalty to GC Supreme Potentate and Antichrist Nicolae Carpathia.
In the Left Behind prequel novels "The Regime" and "The Rapture", we learn that Abdullah's birth name was Abdullah Ababneh; his Jordanian colleagues nicknamed him "Smith" and "Smitty" because of his fondness of America. Before the Rapture, he was a Muslim, but his wife became a Christian and divorced him. After she and their children are taken up to heaven in the Rapture, Abdullah is grief-stricken over their disappearance, and becomes a Christian to follow her example.
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Major Characters in Left Behind Series Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
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| Original Tribulation Force Members: Rayford Steele | Cameron "Buck" Williams | Chloe Steele | Bruce Barnes |
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| Other Tribulation Force Members: Tsion Ben-Judah | Chaim Rosenzweig | Albie | Mac McCullum | Abdullah Smith | David Hassid | Chang Wong | Ming Toy | Ree Woo | Ken Ritz | Lionel Whalum | George Sebastian | Priscilla Sebastian | Amanda White | T. M. Delanty | Lukas Miklos | Floyd Charles | Hattie Durham | Steve Plank | Razor | Otto Weser | Naomi Tiberias | Eleazar Tiberias | Gustaf Zuckermandel, Jr. | Hannah Palemoon | Leah Rose | Annie Christopher | Marcel Papadopoulos | Georgiana Stavros |
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| The Global Community: Nicolae Carpathia | Leon Fortunato | Viv Ivins | Suhail Akbar | Walter Moon | Peter Mathews | Marilena Carpathia | Reiche Planchette | Aurelio Sequoia Figueroa | Jim Hickman | Ramon Santiago | Clancy Tiber | Guy Blod |
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| Others: Joshua Todd-Cothran | Jonathan Stonagal | Bo Hanson | Samuel Hanson | Anika Janssen | Bernadette Rice | Gerald Fitzhugh |
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