The first Muslim Green Beret wrote to Jimmy Carter asking to be deployed to Iran and personally identified Osama Bin Laden
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Changiz Lahidji after graduating from U.S. Special Forces, 1979.
Courtesy of Changiz Lahidji
Changiz Lahidji joined the Iranian special forces, but quit after spending his time protecting the Shah's lavish parties.
In 1979, Lahidji wrote to President Jimmy Carter asking to be deployed to Iran to assist in the ongoing embassy crisis.
He has since gone on to bust drug rings in Spain, capture the mastermind behind the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing, and witness the "Black Hawk Down" incident.
The first time Changiz Lahidji joined a Special Forces unit, his loyalty was to Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran. But he found himself guarding lavish parties in the middle of the desert, protecting the opulent ruler of Imperial Iran and his guests. It wasn't exactly the life of adventure that John Wayne movies led him to believe he could have.
He didn't stay in service to the Shah for very long. It seemed like a waste. So, he moved to California, working in family-owned gas stations until November 1978. That's when he joined the Army and became an instrument of destruction — for the United States.
Read more at: https://www.businessinsider.com/first-muslim-green-beret-wrote-to-jimmy-carter-asking-to-be-deployed-2018-9
The guy is probably a Shia Muslim, who all-in-all, seem to account for less violence.... but if the Muslim pop is about 20% Shia and 75% say, Sunni, maybe that has something to do with it.
