Sami Sadat
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Sayed Sami Sadat دگرجنرال سیدسمیع سادات | |
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 Sami Sadat in 2019 During his mission as an intelligence advisor to the Minister of Defense of Afghanistan | |
| Lieutenant General | |
| President | Hamid Karzai Ashraf Ghani |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 March 1985 15th District خیرخانه, Kabul, Afghanistan |
| Relations | Sayed Ehsan Sadat (brother), Khatera Sadat (sister) |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  Islamic Republic of Afghanistan |
| Branch/service | .svg){kind=small} Afghan National Army |
| Years of service | 2007–present |
| Rank | .svg){kind=small} Lieutenant General |
| Commands | Deputy Director of Public Relations of the Ministry of Interior.
Deputy of the 40th director general directorate of national security. Head of Covert action 76 department at (NDS). Head of Special Operations of the General Directorate of National Security. military advisor to the Minister of National Defense. The commander of (JSOC) the Afghan government's joint special operations unit against terrorism. Commander of 215th 'Maiwand' Army Corps. Special Operations Corps Commander. On the last day of the fall of Ashraf Ghani's government, he was as security responsible of Kabul, Afghanistan. He is currently the leader of the United Front of Afghanistan, a political movement created by him and a number of former military and government officials. |
| Battles/wars | War in Afghanistan |
Sayed Sami Sadat (Arabic: دگرجنرال/سپهبُد سیدسمیع سادات) (born 17 March 1985 in Khairkhana, Kabul, Afghanistan[citation needed]) is an Afghan General/Commander of the Armed Forces and chairman of the Afghanistan United Front, a political organization that is leading an opposition against the Taliban. He is fluent in Persian (Dari), English, Arabic, and Pashto.
He joined the government of Afghanistan in 2007 and his first job was Deputy Director for the POLICE Media Department.[1]
Sadat finished school in Kabul and graduated from the Joint Services Command and Staff College at the Defence Academy of the U.K. in the class of 2011 (ACSC 14). He then attended the Polish Defence Academy, where he completed the Battalion Command Course, and the NATO Military Academy in Munich, Germany. He also holds an Master's in Strategic Management and Leadership from the U.K. Charter Management Institute.[2][3]
Sadat also served as a senior director in the Afghan intelligence services. He Served as Director of covert action program from 2014 to 2016. General Sadat took charge of an elite clandestine counter-terrorism unit where he was leading Afghan and US intelligence joint clandestine counter-terrorism activities known as CTU until to 2018, his team was in charge operations against Al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan. During this time CTU managed to rescue almost all of the kidnapped persons in Al-Qaeda detention who were kept for prosecution and ransom including Haidar Gailani the son of former prime minister of Pakistan Gailani who was kidnapped by Al-Qaida in Pakistan and brought in to Afghanistan. In 2017 his unit’s operation killed Saifullah Akhtar known as Qari Saifullah Bokhari the leader of Harakat Jihad Islami of Pakistan who assassinated former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto. Many Al-Qaeda related terror leaders were captured or killed as result of counter-terrorism operations led by General Sadat making Al-Qaida leadership the weakest.[4][5]
Professional career
[edit]Gen. Sadat has been responsible for the Afghanistan National Army more effectively during the years 2017-2021 in various parts of the country. He also worked as ANDSF COM. of the Afghan National Army for a short period before the Fall of Kabul in 2021.
In 2021, after the fall of Kabul, the president of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani along with other high profile Afghan officials fled Afghanistan. Sami Sadat also had to leave Afghanistan reluctantly. Sadat was annoyed and angry, and promised to return one day to take over Afghanistan again. Currently, Sami Sadat and his family live in London, United Kingdom.
Sadat currently leads the Afghan United Front.[6]
Commands held
[edit]- The commander of (JSOC) the Afghanistan Government's Joint special operations unit against terrorism. (2019-2020)
- Corps Commander of 215th 'Maiwand' Afghanistan (2020-2021)
- Corps Commander ANDSF Corps (Afghanistan) (2021-15AUG)
- Garrison Commander and Kabul security (15/aug/21)
Publications
[edit]He has published the memories of his difficult days of struggle in the book (The Last Commander).[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Sami Sadat — Camca Network". camcanetwork.com. Retrieved 2023-11-14.
- ^ MOD.af.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help); Missing or empty|url=(help) - ^ SallahudinDaud.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help); Missing or empty|url=(help) - ^ Afghanistanunitedfront.org.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help); Missing or empty|url=(help) - ^ SallahudinDaud.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help); Missing or empty|url=(help) - ^ Will Seiber (May 22, 2024). "Nascent Afghan resistance grows in strength but not a threat to Taliban rule". The Long War Journal. Retrieved May 22, 2024.
- ^ "Will return and support Taliban-led Afghanistan govt if...: Former Afghan minister". India Today. September 4, 2021. Archived from the original on 2022-01-25. Retrieved 2022-01-25.
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