Headlines WILL read, THE TORTURED MIND OF AN AFGHAN CIA BLACK OP DEATH SQUAD SNAPS.
He kills Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20 & badly wounds Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24. President Trump illegally put them on the streets of D.C., exposed to attack.
At a Thanksgiving press conference at Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump addressed the Afghanistan illegal immigrant accused of killing one National Guard member and critically injuring another.
JEFF MASON, REUTERS: And you said you've made changes for Afghanis' ability to apply for asylum. Do you blame all Afghans for this one man's mis-- not mistake, but his heinous actions?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: No, but we've had a lot of problems with Afghans because they had a lot of them coming in on these planes. Again, I show you this picture. We had a lot of them coming in on this, these planes that are, look at them. There was no checking.
They just poured into the plane. And Many of these people are criminals. Many of these people are people that shouldn't be here. And many of them have been gotten out. I mean, we've gotten out some, a lot of the people that, you know, we've taken a lot of them out of here. But they came in --
REPORTER: But many, but they came in legally, right?
TRUMP: Yeah, I know this deal-- story. Many are wonderful.
REPORTER: Yeah, I said many are here legally, though. What should they think in terms of their possible future:
TRUMP: Well, they can't be happy, okay? They can't be happy. Because what's taking place between that, if you look at Somalia, they're taking over Minnesota. And they are, we got a lot of problems with the gangs, with all of the things taking place in Minnesota. We have an incompetent governor, a dope, we have a dope governor. They can't be happy about what's going on.
And if you talk about the Afghans, you know, there's a problem because so many bad ones came in on the planes, they just walked on. Whoever the strongest people were, physically in a way. But whoever the strongest, they got on the planes, there was no checking. They just swamped the planes, they took off. We had no idea who they were.
Yeah, do you want to ask a question behind?
REPORTER: Me?
TRUMP: Hi.
REPORTER: Sir, what do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the national?
TRUMP: Nothing, but Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off for a lot of money. There's a tremendous amount of money going back to Somalia.
What the hell are we paying money to Somalia for? But they're ripping off our country at a level that few people have been able to see before. That's about the only thing you talk about competence.
We have Ilhan Omar, who does nothing but complain about our country and our Constitution. And she comes from a country with practically it's practically no country. It's devastated. It's crime ridden. It's a mess. It's a disgrace.
And we took their people, tremendously. We're not taking their people anymore. We're not taking their people and we're getting a lot of their people out because they're nothing but trouble. OK, thank you very much, everybody.
REPORTER: I have a question about this asylum claim that is being floated. Of course, you just detailed that this suspect was flown under the Biden administration, but was he granted asylum under your administration?
TRUMP: When it comes to asylum when they're flown in, it's very hard to get them out. No matter how you want to do. It is very hard to get him out, but we're going to be getting them all out now. Thank you very much.
FROM:
Posted By Ian Schwartz
On Date November 27, 2025
Rahmanullah Lakanwal’s path from a village in Afghanistan to the corner in Washington, D.C., where authorities say he opened fire on two National Guard troops was forged by America’s longest war.
He was 5 years old when the U.S. military invaded after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and as a young man he enlisted with a “Zero Unit,” an Afghan paramilitary force that worked with Americans.
That connection appears to have given Mr. Lakanwal a ticket out of Afghanistan when the Taliban toppled the American-backed government in 2021, allowing him to flee with his wife and children. They began a new life in Bellingham, Wash., where he worked as a delivery driver and his children played soccer in the hallways of their modest apartment complex.
On Thursday, the authorities were scrambling to understand what motivated Mr. Lakanwal to forgo that new start, drive cross-country to Washington, where officials say he fatally shot one Guard member and critically wounded another outside a Metro station…
At some point, he joined a Zero Unit, according to a person briefed on the investigation and an Afghan intelligence officer familiar with the matter. Zero Units, which were formally part of the Afghan intelligence service but operated outside the usual chain of command, were largely recruited, trained, equipped and overseen by the C.I.A., according to Human Rights Watch.
These units specialized in night raids and clandestine missions; Taliban officials and human rights groups described them as “death squads.” Human Rights Watch said it had documented several instances in which the units were responsible for “extrajudicial executions and enforced disappearances, indiscriminate airstrikes, attacks on medical facilities, and other violations of international humanitarian law.” The C.I.A. has denied such allegations of brutality, saying they were the result of Taliban propaganda.
Mr. Lakanwal’s unit was based in Kandahar, a city that was devastated by bombings and assassinations during the war. According to an intelligence officer, one of Mr. Lakanwal’s brothers was the unit’s deputy commander.
A childhood friend, who asked to be identified only as Muhammad because he feared Taliban reprisals, said that Mr. Lakanwal had suffered from mental health issues and was disturbed by the casualties his unit had caused…
He received asylum from the U.S. government in April, according to three people with knowledge of the case who were not authorized to speak publicly.
For several weeks this past summer, according to information provided by Amazon, Mr. Lakanwal worked as a driver for Amazon Flex, delivering packages as an independent contractor. His last delivery was in August.
Kristina Widman said she owned a property in Bellingham that was at one time rented to him and his family. The rental had been set up through World Relief, Ms. Widman said.
In a statement, World Relief declined to say whether it had helped Mr. Lakanwal or his family and said it did not sponsor Afghans brought to the United States since 2021. Instead, the group said it provided services “to those assigned to us” by the government.
Calin Lincicum, a former neighbor, described the apartment complex where Mr. Lakanwal had lived most recently as a rent-subsidized home for “hard cases” — people with disabilities, fleeing domestic violence, in recovery and older residents on oxygen.
He and other neighbors said Mr. Lakanwal’s family kept to themselves, but he recalled once discussing Afghan food with Mr. Lakanwal’s wife. Some neighbors, emerging from the building into the gray Thanksgiving afternoon, said they felt unsettled to learn that the suspect had lived in the same complex.
Rachael Haycox said she had been asleep inside her third floor unit in the Bellingham apartments when the sound of a raid woke her around 3 a.m. on Thursday.
“We thought they were ICE at first,” Ms. Haycox said. “But they yelled, ‘F.B.I.’ and that they had a search warrant.”
She said a drone and a wheeled robot were sent into the apartment for the search, which lasted about two hours. By Thursday afternoon, law enforcement officers had gone, and nobody responded to knocks on the now-cracked apartment door…
MORE AT:
The New York Times
For Shooting Suspect, a Long Path of Conflict From Afghanistan to America
Rahmanullah Lakanwal was among the Afghans who came to the United States after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Earlier, he served in a paramilitary unit that worked with U.S. forces.
By Campbell Robertson, Hamed Aleaziz and Jack Healy
Nov. 27, 2025, 10:22 p.m. ET
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