Warlord of Kayan
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Warlord of Kayan is a 1989 documentary film produced and directed by Jeff B. Harmon.
It tells the story of Sayed Jaffar, the son of an Afghan Ismaili leader, who used to be a member of a hippie motorcycle gang in Allentown, Pennsylvania and later became a provincial governor and chief of a 12,000 man private army in Afghanistan.
Sayed Jaffar returned to his native country during the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s after studying and living in the United Kingdom and the United States to become a key power broker between the Soviets, Afghan Government and the mujahideen.
The film won the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
It was a Duce Films International Ltd. Production for Channel 4 (UK).
The film was part of Harmon's "Afghan Trilogy", which also included the documentaries “Jihad” and “Afgan”.
