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About Courage Under Fire
24 has had a long line of minor character allies for the bigwig heroes of 24, but there are none we will remember for their guts, smarts and committment to the truth so much as Yusuf Auda, the initially suspicious foreign intelligence agent who turned out to be an unlikely hero who gave his life to protect crucial evidence and save his country from decimation at the hands of the American military machine. Yusuf exemplifies the concept that when it comes to protecting the integrity of justice, ethnicity, origin, colour and race are moot -- it lies in the heart of the man himself.

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A Brief History of Yusuf Auda
Yusuf enters the story during the second act of season two. As a result of an intelligence sharing agreement struck between the US and Yusuf's country, CTU agreed to include Yusuf in their investigation of who is responsible for the nuclear threat. He arrives at CTU with the contents of Syed Ali's safehouse. Ali is the leader of the terrorist cell responsible for the nuke. Tony Almeida is immediately suspcious of Yusuf and is unwilling to trust him with any sensitive intel, which creates tension between them, particularly after CTU analyzes a hard drive recovered from the safehouse which seemingly implicates Yusuf's country in supporting the terrorists and conspiring to detonate the nuke.

After interrogating Syed Ali, Michelle Dessler suspects that the recording on the hard drive which implicates Yusuf's country is a forgery, however no one believes they should pursue this thread, even Tony. Michelle confides in Jack and after talking to Ali, Jack agrees with her. Unfortunately, Ali is assassinated before he can give them any more information. Michelle suggests that Jack talk to Yusuf, as he may have more information. However Yusuf is still angry at being exluded from the investigation by Tony and doesn't want to co-operate with Jack.

Before Jack can gain Yusuf's trust, he receives a phone call from Jonathan Wallace, a US military defector who claims to have planted the evidence implicating Yusuf's country in Ali's safehouse. He says that he'll give Jack the evidence in exchange for bringing Kate Warner, a material witness, to a warehouse in Studio City. Yusuf notices Jack taking Kate out of CTU against agency authority, and decides to follow him on a hunch. Jack spots him and corners him, and Yusuf astutely points out that Jack will need his help to protect Kate. At this point, Jack and Yusuf join forces.

Yusuf successfully protects Kate from Jonathan Wallace's secret accomplice, and joins Jack and Wallace in the warehouse. Wallace demands that Jack and Yusuf surrender Kate to his custody if they want the evidence. Jack and Yusuf plant a tracker on Kate and let Wallace take her, but before Wallace can leave, snipers begin shooting at them from the rooftops in the alley. Wallace is forced to join forces with Jack and Yusuf to escape from the warehouse. Yusuf, Jack and Wallace are all highly trained operatives and manage to lay out 11 hostiles in a massive firefight, however Wallace does not escape unscathed. He takes a bullet in the neck and is seriously injured. Jack and Yusuf have no choice but to take Wallace to an urgent care clinic nearby to attempt removal of the bullet. Wallace dies on the table, but after examing Wallace's X-Rays, Jack realizes that Wallace surgically implanted the microchip with the evidence exonerating Yusuf's country in his abdomen. Jack and Yusuf extract the chip and realize that there is a tracker attached to it, which is how the hostiles found Wallace at the warehouse.

As Yusuf attempts to remove the tracker, the men trying to kill Wallace arrive at the clinic. Yusuf manages to remove the tracker, and he and Jack formulate a plan: Yusuf and Kate will take the chip and Jack will try to divert the assassins by taking the tracker separately. Yusuf and Kate manage to escape from the clinic, but Jack isn't so lucky. He is captured and tortured by the men who want the chip back.

As Yusuf and Kate wait at the agreed meeting place for Jack, Kate worries about the fact that Jack is late. Yusuf says their priority is to get the chip back to CTU. They are about to leave when they are ambushed by a group of irate racist rednecks who are out on a rampage against Middle Easterners to avenge the detonation of the nuke. He is dragged from the car and though he manages to fend off two of his attackers, a third sneaks up behind him and brains him with a brick. The three rednecks beat Yusuf within an inch of his life and steal the chip. Kate offers to exchange money for the chip at her house. The rednecks but her in the SUV and drive away, leaving Yusuf bleeding on the ground.

Yusuf manages to crawl to a phone booth with his last ounce of energy, but he can't call for help with the phone lines down because of the nuclear detonation. He crumples to the floor in frustration.

Meanwhile, Jack has escaped from his torturers and now knows the name of the man behind the bomb. He rushes to the meeting place to find Kate and the car gone, and Yusuf half-dead. Yusuf manages to cling to life long enough to tell Jack where the men have taken Kate and the chip with his last breath. As his life slips away, all he can say is "Go get the chip, Jack. Go get the chip."

Yusuf's death was a tragedy, and his is the epitome of a man who had justice and truth at his heart even in his last breath. Alas, Yusuf. You will not be forgotten.