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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 | |
| Deputy Chief of the Afghan Army | |
| Lieutenant General | |
| In office 13 July 2021 – 15 August 2021 | |
| President | Hamid Karzai Ashraf Ghani |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Sayed Sami Sadat (1985-03-17)17 March 1985 (age 40) |
| Relations | Hikmat Sadat (brother) Khtera Sadat (sister) Khoshal Sadat (cousin) |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  Islamic Republic of Afghanistan |
| Branch/service | .svg) Afghan National Army |
| Years of service | 2007–present |
| Rank | .svg) Lieutenant General |
| Commands |
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| Battles/wars | War in Afghanistan |
Sayed Sami Sadat (Persian:دگرجنرال/سپهبُد سیدسمیع سادات) is an Afghan general who was Deputy Chief of the Afghan Army in 2021. He is the Incumbent Chairman of the Afghanistan United Front, a political organization that is leading an opposition against the Taliban. He is fluent inPersian (Dari),English,Arabic, andPashto.
He joined thegovernment of Afghanistan in 2007 and his first job was Deputy Director for thePOLICE Media Department.[1]
Sadat was born on born 17 March, 1985 in theKhair Khāna neighbourhood ofKabul in theDemocratic Republic of Afghanistan into aSayyidPashtun family. He 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 inMunich, Germany. He also holds anMaster's degree 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 2018, his team was in charge operations against Al-Qaeda 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-Qaeda 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; whoassassinated former Prime Minister of PakistanBenazir 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]
Gen. Sadat has been responsible for the AfghanistanNational Army more effectively during the years 2017-2021 in various parts of the country. He also worked asANDSF COM. of theAfghan National Army for a short period before theFall of Kabul in 2021.
In 2021, after the fall of Kabul, the president of AfghanistanAshraf Ghani along with other high profile Afghan officials fled Afghanistan.
Sadat currently leads theAfghan United Front since 18 October 2023.[6]
He has published the memories of his difficult days of struggle in the book (The Last Commander).[7]
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