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 IBRAHAM.
A
member of the Israeli intelligence group known as the Mossad. His
parents
were Morrocan Jews by descent. Ibraham led a branch of the Mossad that
tracked down Nazi war criminal Otto Totenschadel to Buenos Aires, but
before
they could capture him, Totenschadel fled. Ibraham spent the next eight
years looking for the Nazi until he found him again in Brazil, where
members
of the G.I. Joe team had tracked Totenschadel, as well. The Joes made a
deal with Otto in order to get information he had about an old Nazi
bomber
filled with poisonous gas. Ibraham and his men were only interested in
bringing him to trial, but the Joes made a deal to protect Otto from
the
Israelis. The Mossad agents captured the Joes, but Recondo snuck away
to
make the deal anyway. Eventually, the Joes and the Mossad attacked
Otto's
compound. The Joes kept the Israelis from getting to Totenschadel,
despite
Ibraham's wishes. Otto thought he was safe, but the Joes pointed out
that
they hadn't made a deal to protect Otto from the other Nazis who were
protecting
him. The Joes and Ibraham left Otto behind and the man was promptly
killed
by his fellow Nazis for selling them out. (SM 2) |
 ICEBERG.
The
code name used by U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Clifton L. Nash, a snow
trooper
on the G.I. Joe team. Growing up in Brownsville, Texas, Iceberg came to
hate hot weather. While other kids saved up for bicycles, he saved up
for
an air conditioner. When he was old enough to enlist, Iceberg joined
the
Army and asked for duty in Alaska. Through both his military service
and
his love of cold weather, he came to learn everything about survival in
the arctic and became a cold weather survival instructor. Iceberg
eventually
was assigned to the G.I. Joe team. On one of his first missions on the
team, Iceberg joined a team led by Hawk to the icy nation of
Frusenland.
Their mission was to provide protection for the military research team,
Battle Force 2000, but Cobra attacked them on arrival, and the team was
actually rescued by the group they were sent to protect. Iceberg was
later
at Joe headquarters when Cobra's Star-Viper stole the government's top
secret "black box", a theft which prompted the Joes' involvement in
Cobra's
civil war. As much of the Joe team headed to Cobra Island to enter the
conflict, Iceberg, Chuckles, Scarlett and Snake-Eyes were sent on a top
secret mission into the snow-covered Himalayan kingdom of Chomo-Lungma
to track down rogue CIA agent Cullen Esterhazy. Esterhazy never
returned
to America after the government recalled him from his mission of
fighting
the communist Chinese years before. The Joes were accompanied by a CIA
agent and were to bring Esterhazy back to America. The Joes were pulled
into Esterhazy's fight to defend a local monastery instead. After the
mission,
it took Iceberg and the others months of traveling across Asia before
they
reached an extraction site to catch a transport helicopter home. On the
way, they befriended an old farmer who was being bullied by a local
bandit
chief. He surprised Chuckles by not betraying the Joes to the enemy,
prompting
Chuckles to order Iceberg and the team to fight to save the farmer.
After
making their way back home, Iceberg continued to work for the team over
the next few years until it was shut down in 1994. In 2001, the Joe
team
was reinstated and Iceberg soon participated in a mission tracking down
Russian terrorists smuggling a nuclear device into the U.S. across the
border from Canada. Iceberg later headed into Tibet
as backup for a team investigating a hidden Red Ninja retreat where
Cobra
Commander and Storm Shadow had been hiding. Some time later, after the
Joes stopped a plot by Cobra to unleash the weapon known as the
Tempest, and defeated a new threat, the Red Shadows, the military again
disbanded the team. One year later, the Joe team was reformed with a
smaller roster of active members. Iceberg, like most former Joes, is a
reserve member of the new team. He was called back to duty to shut down
Cobra's illegal oil-drilling operation in the arctic, and was wounded
during a firefight. Iceberg is expected to fully recover from his
injuries. (GI 68, 72; OB 1; SM 14-15, 18-19;
GIv2 8, 27, 28; SM:A; Figures: 1, 2, 3) |
| IVAN. One of ten clones created by Dr. Mindbender when trying to create Serpentor, named for Ivan the Terrible. The ten young clones would grow at a slower rate than normal, and Mindbender nearly abandoned them once he perfected the process to create the mature clone that became Serpentor, but instead placed them in stasis and left them alive unbeknownst to Cobra Commander. Each clone was the amalgamation of history's greatest soldiers. After the defeat of Cobra in the 1995, the U.S. government raided Mindbender's secret lab on Cobra Island and recovered the clone children. They were placed in foster care until Serpentor and Dr. Mindbender gathered them in secrecy. All the children joined Serpentor on Cobra Island during a battle between his forces and Cobra and G.I. Joe. After the battle, Ivan and the other boys were again placed in the care of the government. (GIv2 24, 25) |
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