His father, Riza Bey Kryeziu, was one of the activists of Albanian national movements during the early 20th century.
He returned from France and resided in Belgrade from 1939 to 1941, where he was supervised by the Yugoslav authorities and helped Albanians to go back and fight against the Italians.
In 1941, after trying to launch an uprising in Albania, he was arrested together with his two brothers, Hasan and Gani, and imprisoned in Italy.
He was released in September 1943, and made it back to Kosovo where he came into contact with other anti-communist resistance fighters such as Llazar Fundo.
[1] Said was one of the co-founders, on 26 August 1949, of the "Free Albania" National Committee in Paris, led by Mit'hat Frashëri, a parallel anti-communist government in exile.