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 is currently leading opposition efforts against the Taliban from outside Afghanistan.
Sadat’s 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.
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