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He has a truck. And I never said where he was taken to in his backstory
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I imagine our forces pinned down, then a random truck barrels down the road to randomly run the baddies over. I suppose he wanted to escape the Arabian Empire by way of ship, which would bring him to Dubai. Of course he'd realize it was now a war zone very quickly, but by that point he'd be running out of room to escape back where he came so would be forced to where our characters go.