General Kilbaba



General Kilbaba (also known as "The Madman") is the main antagonist of the game Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf. He is a ruthless terrorist of a man, who shows no mercy to anyone who opposes him and will even harshly punish his own men if they do not meet up to his expectations. He is usually inside his underground bunker, giving commands to his second in command Muammaar.

Role
While it is unknown how Kilbaba managed to seize power and climb up the military ranks in service, he manages to invade a small, but wealth Arab emirate and take over. His plans are almost well underway except that Muammar has not yet dispatched the WMD missiles. Before the master plan can be enacted, some of his forces are destroyed by an Apache helicopter driven by an unnamed Strike Force pilot. Kilbaba realises that his territory is under attack and sends Muammaar to launch his SCUD chemical missiles.

The SCUD launches are thwarted by the Strike Force and several prisoners are liberated. In response, Kilbaba travels in his super yacht and sends his forces to capture the American Embassy and hold the U.N. Inspectors hostage in an attempt to drive his opposition away, while he launches his ICBM weapons fitted with bio-warheads. As the Strike Force neutralizes the ICBM threat, the Madman holds 12 prisoners as human shields. The Strike Force manages to damage the yacht and rescue the prisoners, but Kilbaba gets away in a speedboat.

After the U.N. inspectors are liberated and the enemy forces destroyed, Kilbaba is surprised that this is the work of only one helicopter. Running out of options, he decides to use his largest bomber to nuke the area. The Strike Force promptly invades, denying the Madman almost any nuclear capability for his bomber. The Strike Force manage to locate the general bunker under the presidential palace, then they level the building down to allow the co-pilot to infiltrate the bunker and capture the Madman. However, the co-pilot is captured and taken with Kilbaba in his personal APC right to the bomber. The Strike chopper pilot blows open the bomber to rescue the co-pilot, then unleashes all the chopper's arsenal to blow the bomber up, killing Kilbaba for good.

The death of the Madman would provoke his son Ibn Kilbaba to start his own strike against the United States in Jungle Strike.