Nadia Khan looked at the tall, dark and handsome African-American man who lay next to her. Hard to believe that a year ago, her husband Omar Jackson considered himself an atheist and a soldier of the United States of America. Now he was a practicing Muslim and a hard-working herdsman and farmer living in the woods outside Multan, one of the largest cities of Pakistan. Gently she kissed him on the lips, and rested her head on his hairy chest as he slept. The miracles of Allah will never cease, the young woman smiled to herself. Anything is possible to the Most High, she said with contentment. How else could one explain how a Godless black American soldier who slaughtered Muslims for fun came to embrace Islam and take a Pakistani Muslim wife?
Omar Jackson was born on February 7, 1987 in the City of Savannah, Georgia, to Shamika Jackson, an African-American mother and Italian-American father, Michael Tartaglia. He never knew his parents, for his father never had anything to do with his upbringing and his mother died he was a few months old. He grew up in the foster care system. At the age of eighteen, he joined the United States Army. He went to fight for Uncle Sam in Afghanistan and Pakistan after the events of September 11, 2001. The U.S. Army gave the young man something he never had, a family of sorts and a place where he belonged. He fought the Taliban in the Desert countries where they hid, and also took on the evil minions of Al Qaeda wherever they dwelled. Protecting America was his priority.
Omar Jackson had a singular hatred of Muslims, whom he viewed as subhuman and good only when dead. He killed so many throughout his time in the Army that his fellow soldiers nicknamed him the Crusader. Once, his fervent hatred of Muslims got him in trouble for he shot and killed five Pakistani soldiers who had been helping the U.S. Mission in Pakistan and when a fellow U.S. soldier intervened, Omar Jackson shot private Katherine Beaumont in the head. Immediately he was arrested, and the incident was heard around the world. The Pakistani government demanded justice, as did the United States Military Command. Loose cannons like Omar Jackson couldn't and wouldn't be tolerated in today's U.S. Army. They threw the book at him and wanted to make an example out of him.
Omar Jackson knew what awaited him. Under the Barack Hussein Obama administration, the most pro-Arab administration in recent times, he'd face the death penalty for sure. He couldn't let the U.S. Army take him back to America. So when they came to transport him from the U.S. Army base in Peshawar to the States, he escaped, leaving three dead U.S. servicemen in his wake. The six-foot-five, caramel-skinned and green-eyed Omar Jackson had always been an exceptional athlete and when he joined the U.S. Army he basically became a super soldier. Growing up in the foster care system he encountered all kinds of creeps, from sexually abusive foster parents to racist bozos and the like. He also dealt with gangs in the rough neighborhoods where he was forced to live. That's where he learned to be brutal and ruthless. In the cutthroat environment where he grew up, the strong survived and the weak died. That was the law of the jungle, applied to the concrete jungle that was Savannah, Georgia.
Omar Jackson escaped from U.S. custody in Pakistan and when the news hit CNN, he became the most wanted man in the world since the death of Saudi terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden. The Pakistani national police force helped the U.S. Army Special Forces team when they scoured Pakistan to find the most dangerous man in the world. Yeah, just like in his youth, Omar Jackson had made a lot of enemies but fortunately, he was one step ahead of them all. Even though he hated the Muslims with a passion, Omar wasn't stupid. In his time in the Middle East he became fluent in Arabic, Farsi and Urdu. Due to his mixed heritage, he could pass for one of the darker skinned members of Pakistani society, especially after letting his beard grow. The guy was born for infiltration, and that's exactly what he did.
For over a year the U.S. and Pakistan tracked him across one of the most populous countries in the Muslim world, and couldn't find him. How could that be? Omar Jackson knew how to stay one step ahead of his enemies. He never stayed in one place too long. Still, even the most wanted man in the world needs a moment of respite from time to time. He is human, after all. That's how Omar Jackson ended up, hungry and thirsty, exhausted beyond belief, and half-naked, in the woods outside of Multan. He'd been wandering for a long time, moving from place to place, until he ran out of money and passed out in the woods. The starving, weakened ex-U.S. soldier was found by a tall, slender Pakistani herdswoman, eighteen-year-old orphan Nadia Khan.