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Essam Tasir was a former college roommate of Sayid at the University of Cairo, were he earned a degree in Philosophy.
Essam's Wife, Zahra, was killed in the bombings of civilian areas in Bagdad during the invasion of Iraq by an American stray bomb, while shopping for a dress.
In the events of his wife's murder, the then angry and desperate Essam is lured into a terrorist cell in Sydney, Australia, that aims to disrupt the US-lead Coalition prison on Iraq. Initially bribed with the knowledge of the Nadia's whereabouts, Sayid was recruited by Agents Alyssa Cole of the CIA and Robbie Hewitt of the ASIS at the Heathrow Airport, in order to hook up with Essam and recover 300 pounds of stolen C-4 explosive stolen by his cell.
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Sayid talking to Essam
To gain the trust of the cell, Sayid's first move was to uncover a bug planted in their apartment, while pretending to talk to Essam about their good time in Sharm El Sheikh. Later, Essam confinds in Sayid that he was chosen to be the martyr in a bombing operation using the c-4 explosive. However, Essam revealed his strong doubts about his role and the legitemacy of the whole operation. As he explained to Sayid, his main concerns were not fear of his own life, but the conflict he struggled between the just and peaceful teachings of Islam and the opposing role he will take in the killing of innocent lives during the operation. Consequently, Sayid asked Agents Cole and Hewitt to let him save Essam and bring him in. However, they harshly refused and ordered Sayid to convince Essam of shedding his doubts and going on with his role, only to enable the uncovering of the explosive's location. When Sayid refuses to cooperate, he is blackmailed with threats of arresting Nadia in false charge at his faliure to talk "Essam into blowing himself up".
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Essam and Sayid, on their last conversation
On his return, the blackmailed Sayid used the memory of Essam's murdered wife to remind him of the injustice that fell upon him, and thus fuel his will to avenge her, discarding any other concerns he had for the "Greater Good". As Essam Listened, he gradually agreed to accept his mission, and asked Sayid to come along with him for support.
Unable to stand his guilt, Sayid confessed to Essam of his true role and cause before they set on their mission, and asked him to take this last chance in escaping. However, Essam was by that time unstable and distraught. As he condemned Sayid's trickery over a woman, he initially threatened to kill him and then immediately shot himself instead.
On the knowledge that Essam's body will be unclaimed, Sayid insisted on claiming it and remained in Sydney to give Essam a proper Muslim burrial and funeral. Thus, he was delayed to be on Oceanic Flight 815.
Theories
- In the events of Essam's death and confiscating the explosive, Sayid may have recieved threats to Nadia's life from Haddad and the terrorist cell to force him to cooperate in a retaliation act against the CIA. Sayid may have refused and boarded Oceanic Flight 815 with the aim of rescuing Nadia, but as he got stuck on the Island he felt that her death would be inevitable by then. Thus, Sayid felt that she died because of him.