Solomon

Solomon was a former CIA operative and is the main antagonist in Battlefield 3, also taking a major role in the tie-in novel, Battlefield 3: The Russian. He is seen wielding a .44 Magnum in most of his appearances throughout the game.

Solomon is the mastermind behind Faruk Al-Bashir's coup of the Iranian government and orchestrates a revenge plot to detonate Russian nuclear devices in Paris and New York City to plunge the world into a global conflict.

He is both voiced and portrayed in-game by Mark Ivanir.

Early Life
Born in 1971, the man who would come to be known as Solomon was in Lebanon in 1987 when American missionaries took him under their wing and brought him to Florida where he went to school. Suffering from amnesia and not knowing his own name, his guardians named him Solomon after the Wise King of the Bible's Old Testament. As a 16 year-old boy, Solomon was bullied in school for months. As payback, he kills three of the tormentors with a machete. After the incident, he stows away on a cargo ship headed for the Persian Gulf.

Solomon ends up in Kandahar, Afghanistan, during the latter days of the Soviet invasion in 1989, supporting the Mujahideen forces, known as "Suleiman" to them, until Dimitri Mayakovsky, then undercover, singled him out for his ability with languages, discipline, and ruthlessness. He then trained in Russia for two years in the Russian Spetsnaz program and was taken as an apprentice of Dimitri from then onward within GRU.

Beirut, 1991
Solomon was on his first GRU assignment with Dimitri in a plot to capture one of the physicists that was behind the top-secret Iranian nuclear program, a man by the name of Khalaji. During their undercover meeting, Solomon slips aside after eight American operatives intercede to capture Khalaji for themselves. Meanwhile, Solomon takes aim from behind nearby parked cars and kills the operative that would've otherwise shot and killed a then disarmed Dimitri. Saving Dimitri, however, costs the two a valuable asset in the Iranian nuclear program as Khalaji is taken by the American operatives.

After Beirut
With the coming dissolution of the Soviet union in December 1991, Solomon disappeared, only to return again after the September 11th Attacks on the New York World Trade Center and Pentagon Building in the United States in 2001. Although not connected to the attacks, he is put under custody in Guantanamo Bay, a US Navy Base and high-security prison in Cuba. However, being as clever as he is, Solomon offers intelligence on terrorist cells and intelligence from working with GRU in order to be released. His release is granted and he is used as a CIA operative for intelligence and deniable operations.

Operation Swordbreaker, March 15, 2014
By 2014, Solomon is working alongside the PLR, possibly as a field commander in Iraqi Kurdistan. In the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, he order his insurgent forces to capture injured US Marines that were caught in the rubble. It is here that he first encounters Blackburn, who is pinned underneath the debris of a collapse building, and taunts him about his situation, asking him to choose whether or not he should kill a fellow marine, who is subsequently dragged away. For unknown reasons, he leaves Blackburn alive.

Operation Guillotine, October 31, 2014
Several months later, Solomon appears to have risen in the ranks of the PLR command structure, as he is seen fairly close to the leader of the PLR, Faruk Al-Bashir, and accompanies him in Tehran, Iran during the US invasion. Solomon is revealed to have planned and began to execute terror attack on the west, by detonating nuclear devices obtained from Russian arms dealer Amir Kaffarov. His terror cells plan to attack Paris and then New York City several hours later. His base of operations was in the underground vault of the Metropolitan Bank of Tehran, where Blackburn's squad finds the plans of his attack as well as one of the three portable nukes. Shortly after this discovery, Solomon is spotted on the bank's security video tapes along with Al-Bashir.

New York City, November 14, 2014
On the evening of November the 14th, Solomon launches his terror attack on New York. Despite the efforts of Russian GRU, his terror cell succeeds in detonating a nuclear bomb in Paris, killing eighty-thousand people. Solomon and his conspirators use a subway train rigged with explosives to transport the nuclear device across the city. Blackburn, who had just broken free of the CIA's captivity, unexpectedly jumps onto the train from an overpass and storms the subway car, killing a portion of the terror cell as he advances. Despite Solomon's efforts of rigging a train car with explosives and shooting a Blackburn with his pistol, the marine makes it to the front of the train.

Solomon takes Blackburn by surprise, and threatens him with his gun in order to find out if other marines have boarded the train. Blackburn uses this opportunity to break free of Solomon's grip, and takes hostage the PLR terrorist with the detonator to the explosives on the train. Blackburn ends up detonating the explosives to stop Solomon reaching his objective.

Both Solomon and Blackburn survive the blast, with Solomon fleeing through the subway tunnels with the nuclear device, pursued by Blackburn. He then steals a car but is driven off the road by Blackburn and Montes, who have commandeered a police car. Dazed by the crash, Solomon gets to his feet first, executing Montes after he draws a gun on him. He then tries to shoot Blackburn, but is out of ammunition. Blackburn attaches himself to Solomon with handcuffs, and the two fight each other, with Solomon stunning Blackburn by repeatedly knocking his head against the roof of the police car. As Blackburn collapses, Solomon tries to activate the nuclear case. Blackburn trips him up before picking up a brick and bludgeoning him to death with it. With the final nuke in Blackburn's hands and with the other PLR plotters either dead or arrested, Solomon's plot to destroy New York ends with him.

Trivia

 * Throughout the story it is not stated why he is plotting against the various countries but it is hinted revenge from the dialogue in Comrades stating "After everything he still wants revenge" and how in The Great Destroyer he claims "It's not about winning" after shooting Montes.
 * On his left hand he has a black star in between his thumb and index finger, why he has this it is most likely to signify he is part of a group or religious cult.
 * His full name is unknown throughout the entire game.
 * Solomon is the only character to have his own song in the BF3 soundtrack (Solomon's Theme ) other than Vladmir.
 * On the Endgame maps; Nebandan Flats and Kiasar Railroad, players can find an advertisement sticker for a dating service hosted by Solomon. The advertisement says: "Are you alone? Call Solomon dating service! Tell: 555-0199-TEHRAN. An Al-Bashir trains! inc. associate partner".