Sami Sadat

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Lieutenant General Sayed Sami Sadat دگرجنرال سیدسمیع سادات
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	(1985-03-17) 17 March 1985 (age 39) 15th District خیرخانه, Kabul, Afghanistan
Relations	Sayed Ehsan Sadat (brother), Khatera Sadat (sister)
Military service
Allegiance	Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Branch/service	Afghan National Army
Years of service	2007–present
Rank	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]