Editing Day 3 antagonists

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This is a list of characters with articles or [[unnamed characters]] entries who were '''antagonists during [[Day 3]]'''.

The major antagonists of Day 3 were either attempting to sell or to use the [[Cordilla virus]]. For the first half of the day, [[Ramon Salazar]]'s drug syndicate attempted to purchase the virus from the broker [[Michael Amador]]; for the second half, bio-terrorist [[Stephen Saunders]] and his couriers threatened America with it using weaponized containers.

== Salazar drug ring ==
[[File:Salazars&Jack.jpg|200px|thumb|right|[[Jack Bauer]] preserves his cover as he works with the leaders of the drug ring.]]
'''[[Ramon Salazar]] and [[Hector Salazar]]''': brothers and co-leaders of the Mexican Salazar drug cartel; Ramon was thought to have threatened L.A. with the [[Cordilla virus]], broken out of jail by Jack; killed when false virus capsule set by Amador exploded. Hector handled the crime organization after Ramon's incarceration; was killed by Ramon.
* [[David Gomez]]: shot Tony Almeida at the mall so Kyle Singer could escape; later he was killed in a CTU raid
* [[Antonio]]: Gomez's accomplice who grabbed [[Linda]]; he was also killed in the CTU raid
* [[Tomas]]: lieutenant of the Salazars who convinced Ramon not to kill Jack
* [[Pedro (Day 3)|Pedro]]: henchman, killed by Jack on the plane during the flight.
* [[Sandra]]: dancer or escort who worked as an attendant for the Salazars
* [[Eduardo]]: henchman who tortured [[Chase Edmunds]]; killed when Claudia and Chase overpowered him
* [[Emilio]]: henchman knocked out by [[Claudia Hernandez]] to rescue Chase 
* [[Pablo]]: henchman working for Hector, then for Ramon; knocked out by Chase before the [[Delta Force]] attacked the Salazar camp
* [[Felipe]]: henchman working for Hector, along with Pablo.
* [[Luis (Day 3)|Luis]]: henchman working for Ramon who kept watch over [[Nina Myers]]
* [[Zach Parker]]: drug addict and small time dealer who hired [[Kyle Singer]] to be a [[cocaine]] mule for Carlos Corretja
* [[Ed (Day 3)|Ed]]: an accomplice of Parker
* [[Carlos Corretja]]: mid-level narcotics distributor for Hector in Tijuana who hired [[Zach Parker]] to move a decoy bag of "cocaine" across the border
* ([[Salazar guard]]): henchman killed by Chase, starting the shootout that ended in Claudia's death

== Saunders bioterrorism group ==
[[File:SaundersPhone.jpg|200px|thumb|The mastermind of the day's events, [[Stephen Saunders]], who used the [[Cordilla virus]] during his [[Cordilla virus attacks|campaign]] against the states.]]
'''[[Stephen Saunders]]''': member of Jack's [[Nightfall]] team in Kosovo; became a bio-terrorist mastermind obsessed with dismantling the foreign empire of the United States, and used the [[Cordilla virus]] to coerce [[President]] [[David Palmer]]
* [[Michael Amador]]: middleman between the [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] creators of the virus and Saunders who staged a fake auction between the Salazars and a proxy affiliated with [[Nina Myers]]; exploded by Saunders' car bomb
** ([[Amador's operative]]): present during Amador's phony auction
** ([[Amador guard]]): spotted and revealed undercover agent [[Jim Wong]]
* [[Marcus Alvers]]: bio-weapons expert and close associate of Michael Amador, he was Saunders' first virus courier; attacked the [[Chandler Plaza Hotel]] and was himself lethally infected, but gave information to [[Michelle Dessler]]
* [[Diana White]]: former lover of Stephen Saunders who blackmailed her rich brothel clients to finance his terrorist operations, and later had her killed by attacking the [[MI6]] office in Los Angeles in order to impede CTU and MI6's investigations
* [[Osterlind]]: right-hand man of Saunders who coordinated the couriers' movements across the nation; killed by Saunders when he refused to follow a direct order
* [[Arthur Rabens]]: the second [[Los Angeles]] virus courier, and last of all the couriers to be stopped
* [[Ian (Day 3)|Ian]]: the [[San Francisco]] virus courier
* ([[Saunders_virus_courier|Virus courier]]): an unnamed virus courier for Saunders, sent to an unspecified city
* [[Pach]]: henchman sent to destroy the [[MI6]] database; was foiled by Jack and Chase
* [[Young]]: henchman sent to destroy the [[MI6]] database; was foiled by Jack and Chase
* [[Dorman]]: expendable operative who unwittingly went on a suicide mission to pick up Amador
* [[Lennox]]: young man hired by Saunders to keep tabs on his daughter [[Jane Saunders|Jane]] while at college
* ([[Saunders_mercenary|Mercenary]]): leader of a group of black-masked men who verified the death of and escorted away the corpse of [[Ryan Chappelle]]
** ([[Saunders mercenary 2|Scanner]]): checked Chappelle's body for trackers
* [[Frederick]]: henchman, captor of [[Michelle Dessler]]; shot by [[Tony Almeida]] in a shootout
* [[Kevin (Day 3)|Kevin]]: henchman who kidnapped and guarded Michelle; she tricked him and knocked him out to escape

== Others ==

* [[Yuri (Day 3)|Yuri]]: the Ukrainian contact of [[Michael Amador]] and connection to the original creators of the virus
* [[Nina Myers]]: hired by an unknown client to purchase the virus for $240 million from [[Michael Amador]]; soon captured by CTU, tricked Jack to release a computer virus in the CTU system and eventually nearly escaped, only to be killed by Jack
** [[Cale]]: Nina's partner, working for the same original client

== Political scandal ==
* [[Alan Milliken]]: tried to blackmail President [[David Palmer]] so that his brother, [[Wayne Palmer]], would be fired
* [[Julia Milliken]]: could have prevented her husband's death but chose to listen to Sherry; later committed murder-suicide
* [[Sherry Palmer]]: responsible for the death of [[Alan Milliken]]; killed by [[Julia Milliken]]
* [[Ted Packard]]: smeared the name of his ex-wife [[Anne Packard|Anne]] with lies for blackmail money; after being met with failure in his attempt, committed suicide
* [[John Keeler]]: [[David Palmer]]'s opponent in the presidential race. Made a deal with [[Sherry Palmer]] to blackmail David into stepping down from the election

== Miscellaneous ==
* [[Kyle Singer]]: though he had no knowledge of the plot, Kyle Singer was involved, as he ferried the decoy drugs across the Mexican border; was later suspected of being infected with the virus himself; captured, first by Salazar's men, then by CTU, and then put in quarantine, and later reunited with his family when found to be clean
* [[Douglas Shaye]]: Ramon Salazar's lawyer; murdered by Salazar with a pen because "knew too much"
* [[Peel]]: a prisoner that forced Jack and Ramon to play Russian roulette during the riot; shot by Jack just as Chase Edmunds and his men were breaking in
* ([[Prison riot inmate]]): another inmate during the prison riot
* [[Jeff Benson]]: prison guard who murdered [[Luis Annicon]] because Salazar had his son hostage


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