government refused to negotiate to get him released. Saunders was held prisoner and tortured by the Bosnian secret police for two years, and the U.S. It was later revealed in Day 1 that Drazen's body double was killed in explosion, not Victor himself.

Bauer's team was ambushed and he thought he was the only one to survive the operation. MI6 loaned Saunders to the United States for the operation.ĭuring the mission, things went wrong and an explosion ending up killing not only Drazen, but his wife and daughter as well. Saunders as part of the Operation Nightfall teamīauer was ordered to gather a six-man team that would infiltrate Kosovo by air, eliminate the threat posed by Drazen, and move to a distant extraction point where they would be extracted by a helicopter. The mission, which was authorized by Senator David Palmer, required a Delta Force team to take out Victor Drazen, a Balkan war criminal.

Two years prior to the events that took place in Day 1 (six-and-a-half years before Day 3), Saunders was assigned to work with Jack Bauer on Operation Nightfall. Through the use of his daughter as leverage, he was eventually captured by CTU and forced to halt his plot, but was killed by the vengeful wife of one of his victims.īefore Day 3 View Stephen Saunders' profile at Character profiles. He masterminded a terrorist plot where, using the threat of the extremely lethal and contagious Cordilla virus, he forced President David Palmer to acquiesce to his demands to initiate a take-down of the American intelligence/military apparatus. Six years later, he contacted his daughter Jane and returned to the United States. While working with Jack Bauer on Operation Nightfall, he was abandoned in enemy territory by the Delta Force team and was presumed dead for several years. Saunders was a former MI6 agent and soldier. 'I was abandoned by the people I worked for.like you will be someday.'

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