CIA Death Squad Operative Involved in the Shooting of Two National Guard members

By David Starr

 

By now, it can be concluded that an Afghan national was the shooter of two National Guard members in late November. Rahmanullah Lakanwal was working with the CIA during the Afghanistan War, a member of a death squad which committed rights abuses.

 

Lakanwel was admitted into the United States after the war and granted asylum. 

 

Due to CIA training and actually being a part of the killing of Afghan civilians, Lakanwal could very well have snapped and the result was the killing of Sarah Beckstrom and the fatal wounding of Andrew Wolfe.

 

On ABC This Week, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem (who can be called a Nazi, or at the least a Nazi-lover), was interviewed about the incident. She is quoted as saying that Lakanwal, “since he’s been here [in the U.S.], we believe he could have been radicalized in his home community and his home state.” But the root causes of his “radicalization” probably go back to his morbid experiences as a CIA death squad member.

 

Noem also harped on the vetting process, claiming that the Biden administration perhaps did not use this procedure well to check on Lakanwal. Noem repeatedly made this accusation. Jonathan Karl, the co-host of This Week, pressed Noem on whether the Trump regime used the vetting process. Noem’s response? “ All the information that was gathered on that vetting process was gathered under the Biden administration. That information was provided by them, and the responsibility lies with them.”

 

Right-wingers have an obsessive habit of pointing accusing fingers at everyone but themselves.

 

In regards to radicalization, Noem is implying that, in her mind, leftist radicals and/or Muslim radicals are to blame for Lakanwal’s state of mind. She purposely ignores the experiences Lakanwal was exposed to as part of the CIA’s death squad. 

 

It is already known that the CIA combined with Afghan operatives to fight during the war. MintPress Newsposted on Facebook the following statement:    

 

“The Afghan man accused in the November 2025 shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., worked with CIA-backed military units during the war in Afghanistan.

The suspect, identified as 29-year-old Rahmanullah Lakanwal, arrived in the U.S. in September 2021 under “Operation Allies Welcome,” a program for Afghans who worked with the U.S. government. 

Lakanwal was part of the CIA’s “Zero Units,” which were Afghan paramilitary groups that often operated alongside CIA officers in intense combat situations.

 

It is also known that the CIA and Zero Units committed war crimes. TruthOut published a piece by Emran Feroz, an Afghan-Austrian journalist, with the following details:

 

“When I saw the suspect’s name, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, I immediately recognized that he used to work as a U.S.-trained militiaman, and it was the United States that destroyed his childhood, his life, and his home country. Feroz adds that Lakanwal was a U.S. ally equipped with various resources from the U.S. military and intelligence service and did “some of the most brutal work” during the war.

 

Feroz writes, the “Zero Units were among the most aggressive instruments of the U.S. campaign in Afghanistan,” and were trained and armed by the CIA to do “unlawful killings, disappearances, and attacks on medical facilities.” And that’s just three examples.

 

Feroz writes, “Afghan officials could not intervene, because the units did not answer to Kabul.”

 

Both the Zero Units and the CIA were not punished for their war crimes. As Feroz puts it, “Impunity was an operational fact, not a malfunction.”

 

In the aftermath of the shootings White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Nazi Stephen Miller posted on Twitter (X), to use Feroz’s quote: “You are not just importing individuals. You are importing societies…At scale, migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homelands.” Nothing about the U.S. intelligence service and military operatives that essentially caused many migrants and their descendants to live, and suffer, in their broken homelands.

 

On Secular Talk, host Kyle Kulinski gives details about Rahmanullah Lakanwal and his experiences that drove him to commit the shootings.

 

No impunity for Lakanwal as he has been sentenced to receive the death penalty. Meanwhile, some innocent civilians were murdered in the Caribbean near Venezuela in small boats but Nazis like Trump and Hegseth could be immune from prosecution.   

 

 


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