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'''Jabbar''' is the official wise man of a tribe of [[D'reg|D'regs]] met by [[Sam Vimes]] during the events of {{J}}. 

:Carrot: "He's their... well, he's like an official wise man."
:Vimes: "Oh, so he's not the one who tells them (i.e. the D'regs) to charge?"
:Carrot: "No, that's the leader. Whenever they have one."
:Vimes: "So perhaps Jabbar tells them when it's wise to charge?"
:Jabbar: "It's always wise to charge, offendi." 

He is a bearded man, as befits a Son of the Desert in [[Klatch]], and has a sly edge to him. He is a likeable fellow, although one who would cheerfully kill anybody whom he disliked or from a different tribe. He tries to test Vimes with such ordeals as eating a sheeps eyeball, but is impressed when Vimes won't fall for it.

He owns a camel called [[Evil Brother-in-law of a Jackal]].

He takes Vimes to meet [[71-hour Ahmed]] deep in the desert, and helps win the incipient war before it becomes one.

==Annotation==

Jabbar is described - as are the D'regs themselves, despite their Northern-African-inspired name - to be very similar to the Afghan {{wp|Mujahideen|Mujahideen}}, where the the basic units of mujahideen organization and action reflected the highly segmented nature of Afghan society - i.e. they all fought each other under their warlords. In the face of foreign (in this case, Soviet) opposition, however, the main mujahideen parties allied themselves into a single political bloc whose uneasy alliance lasted as long as the war and then disintegrated.

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