<P> In the evening of the third day, the U.S. launches a full - scale assault on Al - Asad's presidential palace, aware of the SAS warning about the possible nuclear device . As U.S. Navy SEALs invade the palace, the Marines engage Al - Asad's ground forces . The assault, however, ends in catastrophe when the nuclear device suddenly detonates, wiping out most of the city along with everyone in it . </P> <P> Refusing to assume Al - Asad dead, Price's strike team supported by Russian loyalists raids a potential safe house in a village in Azerbaijan to eradicate the occupying Russian forces and capture Al - Asad . Shortly into the interrogation, Al - Asad's phone rings . After hearing the voice of the caller, Price executes Al - Asad and reveals that the caller was the leader of the ultranationalists: Imran Zakhaev . Price informs his squad about his assassination mission against Zakhaev in Pripyat, Ukraine in 1996 . In the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster and the collapse of the Soviet Union, Zakhaev took advantage of the turmoil to profit from nuclear proliferation and used his new wealth to lure soldiers from the Soviet Army to form his ultranationalist party . Price, then a lieutenant, and his superior, Captain MacMillan, were sent on a black operation to eliminate him . Making their way through Pripyat and into Chernobyl, the two reached their vantage point in an abandoned hotel, with Price firing upon Zakhaev with a Barrett M82 sniper rifle; however, the shot only severed Zakhaev's arm . Price and MacMillan barely escaped Zakhaev's henchmen . </P> <P> Following the death of Al - Asad, Price's team hold off against Ultranationalist forces who arrive to avenge him . Later, a joint task force, composed of the SAS, Force Recon, and the Loyalists, attempt to capture Zakhaev's son, Victor, to learn Zakhaev's whereabouts . After ambushing him in an enemy convoy at a vehicle checkpoint, Victor flees the scene but is soon cornered on the roof of an apartment building . Refusing to surrender, he commits suicide . Enraged, Zakhaev retaliates by taking control of a nuclear launch facility . </P> <P> An operation is launched by the task force to take back the site from Zakhaev's forces via halo jump . However, Zakhaev promptly launches nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles at the U.S. Eastern Seaboard, with the potential of causing 41 million casualties . The SAS and Force Recon, however, manage to breach the facility, seize the command room and remotely destroy the missiles over the Atlantic Ocean . They escape in military trucks with Zakhaev's forces in hot pursuit . </P>

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