Trivia[]
- In the beginning, Yasir Al-Fulani is dragged from a mosque.
- When Khaled Al-Asad executes Al-Fulani, he walks up, cocks the pistol, and fires. When seen on replay before "Blackout", he walks up and fires without cocking, but a small fuzz in the screen before and the audience suggests that a frame was skipped. This was changed in Modern Warfare Remastered, which appropriately features the full cocking part.
- Using the noclip cheat, if going under the map, one can see an AK-47 following the car underneath it. This is a placeholder weapon for Al-Fulani.
- There is a pistol above Victor Zakhaev's head, in the shade flap, which appears to be the M1911 he used in "Sins of the Father".
- When looking at the rear-view mirror in the car, there is no reflection on consoles, only a drawn image of the driver in the mirror, likely an excuse for no player models being rendered in the campaign. On the PC version, there is a reflection of the driver, although it is a static image.
- In the Modern Warfare 2 beginning cutscene, the last parts of this level can be seen.
- When using the "give all" cheat in this level, the game crashes when pressing the switch weapons button. Also, using noclip at any point before Al-Fulani is dragged out of the car will make the soldiers taking Al-Fulani out of the car not appear, making the level impossible to complete.
The banner on the top left reads "Infinity Ward" in Arabic.
- While Al-Fulani is being dragged to the car, several banners can be seen hanging with Arabic text on them. The black banner on the top left reads "إنفنيتي ورد", a transliteration of "Infinity Ward".
- Al-Asad borrows Zakhaev's Desert Eagle to execute Al-Fulani. In the original, this is necessary as he carries no weapon. However, his remastered model is shown with a sidearm.
A civilian following Al-Fulani's car
- When driving past the executions, one will notice that the soldiers in the firing squad continue to fire at the wall even after the bodies have fallen down.
- As the car drives through the narrow alley, one can see a graffiti of a man's face on the wall. The man is Jason West from Infinity Ward staff.
- This is later replaced with Arabic writing in the Remastered version.
- After the civilian is dragged out of his car by OpFor soldiers, he will stand still and seem to be holding an invisible weapon.
- The subtitles of the level are not counted as subtitles by the game, as turning off the subtitles won't do anything to it.
- Using external developer console commands such as "cg_draw2d 0" and/or "cg_drawhud 0" will also be unable to remove the subtitles when it normally does in other levels. It also is unable to remove the staff credits.
- If the player looks back after the civilians are killed in a gunfight one will notice a civilian car tailing the car where President Yasir Al-Fulani is in and stops in the middle of the road in one part of the game.
- When Al-Fulani is carried out of the mosque, the OpFor soldiers dragging him are holding AK-47s, while in the intro cutscene they instead have AK-74 rifles strapped to their backs.
- Before executing Al-Fulani, Al-Asad says, "This is how it begins." Appropriately, his action begins the conflict that rages throughout the Modern Warfare series.
- In the Remastered version, Al-Asad's Arabic monologue and accent differ a bit as the voice actor was changed.
- When using the Ragtime Warfare cheat, the level will proceed faster and last only 2 minutes and 14 seconds.