Sami Sadat

Lieutenant General Sami Sadat is a highly decorated former senior commander in the Afghan Army. He worked in intelligence and special operations before taking command of a corps. He was awarded a bronze star for saving the life of a US pilot who had come down in a Taliban-held area. He leads opposition efforts against the Taliban from outside Afghanistan. His writing has appeared in the New York Times and the Huffington Post , and he has been interviewed by and his story featured in the New...See more

Lieutenant General Sami Sadat is a highly decorated former senior commander in the Afghan Army. He worked in intelligence and special operations before taking command of a corps. He was awarded a bronze star for saving the life of a US pilot who had come down in a Taliban-held area. He leads opposition efforts against the Taliban from outside Afghanistan. His writing has appeared in the New York Times and the Huffington Post , and he has been interviewed by and his story featured in the New York Times , NPR, AFP, CNN, and the BBC. He is the subject of the Emmy Award-winning National Geographic documentary Retrograde , by award-winning director Matthew Heineman. See less