Hassan Nadir

"Diplomatic immunity, my friend!"

Hassan Nadir is a Saudi diplomat, rapist and terrorist financer who appeared in Secrets and Lies.

Background
Hassan was a Saudi diplomat, working for the Saudi Arab government, who also raised funds for terrorist organizations that American intelligence had not been able to penetrate. He had a wife named Aaliyah, whom he abused physically and sexually, and two children: a daughter named Dalia and a son named Faris. Some time prior to the events of Secrets and Lies, Aaliyah contacted CIA agent John Summers and she gave him intelligence on her husband's activities and the terrorist groups he worked for. Hassan knew that he had a leak but he was unable to identify its identity. In February 2006, Summers revealed Aaliyah's identity to the CIA and arranged for her to seek refuge in the United States. One month later, Aaliyah defected with the children, and the three were hid in a location only known to Summers. To protect them, the CIA staged a car accident to make Hassan think that his family had died. However, Hassan learned the truth from his own mole in the CIA, the Deputy Director of Operations Bruno Hawks. Around April 20, Hassan travelled to the United States using his diplomatic passport and reunited with Hawks.

Secrets and Lies
Hassan and Hawks tie Summers to a chair in his own home and torture him with the intention of making him reveal the whereabouts of Hassan's family. When these efforts are unsuccessful, Hawks kills Summers, and the CIA later stages his suicide by gunshot. However, when BAU agent Jason Gideon reads about the suicide in the press, he contacts Hawks, unaware that it was Hawks who killed Summers, and tells him that he knows that Summers didn't kill himself. In order to learn how much Gideon knows, Hawks tells Gideon that there is a mole in the CIA, and invites him (and reluctantly, the rest of his team) to help identify the mole and find Aaliyah. After examining a recording of Summers meeting earlier with Gideon, the BAU realizes that Summers hid Aaliyah in a shipping container, and the CIA locates it in the Baltimore docks, using satellital thermal imagery. In order to keep the mission secret and avoid a diplomatic incident, the local authorities aren't alerted and Derek Morgan is sent there with CIA agent Gina Sanchez to retrieve the family alone. However, Hawks also relies the information to Hassan, who reaches the container before the agents get there and tries to force his wife out at gunpoint.

When Morgan and Sanchez find them, Morgan tells Hassan to drop the gun and let his wife go. Hassan claims diplomatic immunity to avoid arrest, but Morgan tells him that the container they are in has not passed U.S. customs yet. As a result, the container is not legally U.S. soil and Hassan's immunity is void. At this point however, Sanchez disarms Morgan and asks Hawks for further orders. Hawks tells her to kill Hassan, but she only agrees to carry out the order after Hawks has the CIA cut visual communication with them, leaving no evidence of the assassination. It is later revealed that Sanchez had figured out Hawks and that the shooting was a ploy to make Hawks expose himself as the mole. Insead of killing him, Sanchez fired into the air and Hassan was taken to CIA headquarters for interrogation about his partnership with Hawks.

Modus Operandi
Absolutely nothing is known of how Hassan performs his criminal activities.

Profile
No profile was made of Hassan, as the BAU's attention was centered on Hawks.

Real-Life Comparison
Aaliyah's defection seems loosely based on the 1994 defection of Saudi diplomat Mohammed al Khilewi and his family to the United States. Some differences are that, in the real case, the diplomat husband was the main agent of the defection rather than his wife, that he sought assistance from the FBI rather than the CIA, and that the persons al Khilewi claimed protection against and accussed of financing terrorist groups were the Saudi government in general, and King Fahd and Prince (later King) Salman, in particular.

Known Victims

 * Unspecified dates: Aaliyah Nadir
 * 2006:
 * April 26: John Summers
 * May 3:
 * Dalia Nadir
 * Faris Nadir

Appearances

 * Season One
 * Secrets and Lies