Suspect in DC Ambush of 2 National Guardsmen Is Afghan National Who Entered US During Biden Admin

[DaisyDay]

I wonder if we as a culture should reconsider allowing mentally ill folk such easy access to deadly weapons.

 

[iluvatar5150]

Justice Department is investigating whether D.C. police manipulated crime data

The inquiry into whether data was manipulated to make crime rates seem lower is being run out of the office of the U.S. attorney for D.C., Jeanine Pirro.

www.nbcnews.com

Still doesn’t support your original claim.

 

[Perpetual Student]

Reading that back it sounds harsher than when it was in my head.

Apologies.

Apologies so graciously presented are of course accepted.

 

[BNR32FAN]

Terrorism concerns us all and I think people have a right to know, whether the terrorist entered our country legally or illegally. We once had a suspicious guy here who entered legally, two people here tried over and over to get the federal government to act, making it clear to them the guy was taking lessons to fly a large aircraft but insisted he had no interest in learning how to land. The feds would take initiate investigative action.

Yeah but we all know that your threads have a common theme, immigrants who commit crimes, even though the majority of Americans are actually murdered by Americans. Your threads are almost always anti immigrant related.

 

[FreeinChrist]

Reports identified the suspect as 29-year-old Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who is said to have entered the country in 2021 during the Biden administration. Little is known about Lakanwal, who reportedly used a handgun in the shooting. He reportedly entered the United States as part of former president Biden’s Operation Allies Welcome in the wake of the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal.

Suspect in DC Ambush of 2 National Guardsmen Is Afghan National Who Entered US During Biden Admin

An Afghan national who entered the United States during the Biden administration allegedly shot two National Guardsmen in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday in what authorities described as a targeted attack, according to reports.

freebeacon.com

President Trump gave a speech about the terror attack, where he spoke of lifting up our prayers to those shot and their families. He spoke of the "20 million unknown and un-vetted foreigners" let in by the Biden administration, and renewed efforts to stop such actions of terror by stepping up the investigation of these people.

There is a problem with reading sites with a far right bias and hurriedly claiming things are the fault of those one disagrees with . The right in particular is quick to pass judgement on Biden or Democratic Party members.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/11/28/dc-shooting-afghan-resettlement-immigration/

The Afghan national accused of shooting two National Guard members near the White House this week underwent thorough vetting by counterterrorism authorities before entering the United States, according to people with direct knowledge of the case.​

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Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, arrived in the U.S. through Operation Allies Welcome (OAW), a Biden-era program that helped resettle Afghan nationals after the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.​

Do you really think that the CIA didn't know much about Lakanwal in order to work with him in hostile territory?

AI overview

• Circa 2011: Lakanwal began working with the U.S. government, including the CIA, as a member of a partner force (known as the "Zero Units") in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
• August/September 2021: The U.S. military withdrew from Afghanistan, and the Taliban seized control.
• September 8, 2021: Lakanwal arrived in the United States through Operation Allies Welcome (OAW), a program to resettle vulnerable Afghans. He was granted parole status and settled in Bellingham, Washington, with his family.
• December 2024: He applied for asylum in the U.S..
• April 2025: Lakanwal was granted asylum. He also had an active Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) application at the time.
• November 2025 (prior to the shooting): He drove across the country from Washington state to Washington, D.C..

So he was granted asylum in April 2025, under the Trump administration. If they felt he was a risk, they could have refused asylum. Trump doesn't want to admit it, but that is the truth.

 

[RDKirk]

There is a problem with reading sites with a far right bias and hurriedly claiming things are the fault of those one disagrees with . The right in particular is quick to pass judgement on Biden or Democratic Party members.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/11/28/dc-shooting-afghan-resettlement-immigration/

The Afghan national accused of shooting two National Guard members near the White House this week underwent thorough vetting by counterterrorism authorities before entering the United States, according to people with direct knowledge of the case.​

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Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, arrived in the U.S. through Operation Allies Welcome (OAW), a Biden-era program that helped resettle Afghan nationals after the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.​

Do you really think that the CIA didn't know much about Lakanwal in order to work with him in hostile territory?

AI overview

• Circa 2011: Lakanwal began working with the U.S. government, including the CIA, as a member of a partner force (known as the "Zero Units") in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
• August/September 2021: The U.S. military withdrew from Afghanistan, and the Taliban seized control.
• September 8, 2021: Lakanwal arrived in the United States through Operation Allies Welcome (OAW), a program to resettle vulnerable Afghans. He was granted parole status and settled in Bellingham, Washington, with his family.
• December 2024: He applied for asylum in the U.S..
• April 2025: Lakanwal was granted asylum. He also had an active Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) application at the time.
• November 2025 (prior to the shooting): He drove across the country from Washington state to Washington, D.C..

So he was granted asylum in April 2025, under the Trump administration. If they felt he was a risk, they could have refused asylum. Trump doesn't want to admit it, but that is the truth.

From what I gather, just three days before the incident, there was a flurry of Google searches on Rahmanullah Lakanwal.

The suspicion is that some entity was checking to make sure all tracks were covered.

 

[FreeinChrist]

From what I gather, just three days before the incident, there was a flurry of Google searches on Rahmanullah Lakanwal.

The suspicion is that some entity was checking to make sure all tracks were covered.

Anything to back that up?

Perhaps, as DC has been a Democratic stronghold, this should not have occurred:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-diverts-anti-terror-funds-democratic-strongholds-republican-states-2025-10-16/#:~:text=WASHINGTON%2C%20Oct%2016%20(Reuters),cooperating%20with%20federal%20immigration%20agents.

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WASHINGTON, Oct 16 (Reuters) - The Trump administration plans to shift terrorism prevention funding from Democratic-led states toward those led by Republicans, government records show, as it overhauls a $1 billion program created after the 9/11 attacks.​

Twelve Democratic-led states are suing to block the cuts, alleging that the Trump administration is trying to punish them for not cooperating with federal immigration agents.​

I also wonder if a more experienced person could have been in this role and if the shooting could have been prevented:

“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention

One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.

www.propublica.org

His career blastoff came quickly. A year after graduation, the 22-year-old with no apparent national security expertise is now a Department of Homeland Security official overseeing the government’s main hub for terrorism prevention, including an $18 million grant program intended to help communities combat violent extremism.​

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The White House appointed Fugate, a former Trump campaign worker who interned at the hard-right Heritage Foundation, to a Homeland Security role that was expanded to include the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships. Known as CP3, the office has led nationwide efforts to prevent hate-fueled attacks, school shootings and other forms of targeted violence.​

 

[RDKirk]

Anything to back that up?

I use terms like "I gather" and "the suspicion is" for a reason.

Someone with real expertise would have made those checks in ways that would not have been apparent to people with real expertise.

Perhaps, as DC has been a Democratic stronghold, this should not have occurred:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-diverts-anti-terror-funds-democratic-strongholds-republican-states-2025-10-16/#:~:text=WASHINGTON%2C%20Oct%2016%20(Reuters),cooperating%20with%20federal%20immigration%20agents.

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WASHINGTON, Oct 16 (Reuters) - The Trump administration plans to shift terrorism prevention funding from Democratic-led states toward those led by Republicans, government records show, as it overhauls a $1 billion program created after the 9/11 attacks.​

Twelve Democratic-led states are suing to block the cuts, alleging that the Trump administration is trying to punish them for not cooperating with federal immigration agents.​

I also wonder if a more experienced person could have been in this role and if the shooting could have been prevented:

“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention

One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.

www.propublica.org

His career blastoff came quickly. A year after graduation, the 22-year-old with no apparent national security expertise is now a Department of Homeland Security official overseeing the government’s main hub for terrorism prevention, including an $18 million grant program intended to help communities combat violent extremism.​

​

The White House appointed Fugate, a former Trump campaign worker who interned at the hard-right Heritage Foundation, to a Homeland Security role that was expanded to include the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships. Known as CP3, the office has led nationwide efforts to prevent hate-fueled attacks, school shootings and other forms of targeted violence.​

And then you tell us about someone without real expertise.

 

[FreeinChrist]

I use terms like "I gather" and "the suspicion is" for a reason.

Someone with real expertise would have made those checks in ways that would not have been apparent to people with real expertise.


And then you tell us about someone without real expertise.

By 'anything to back that up', I mean an article or a statement from someone with particular knowledge or such. That is all. I think it would be helpful to have that to understand the situation.

 

[BasedLutheran]

I wonder if we as a culture should reconsider allowing mentally ill folk such easy access to deadly weapons.

Unfortunately criminals don't care about the law, especially laws regulating guns. If they want to get them, they will, and leave us unable to fight back. Indeed, the reason this Afghani was stopped from killing anyone else was because he was shot by someone with a gun.

 

[DaisyDay]

Unfortunately criminals don't care about the law, especially laws regulating guns. If they want to get them, they will, and leave us unable to fight back. Indeed, the reason this Afghani was stopped from killing anyone else was because he was shot by someone with a gun.

My comment isn't about criminals but the mentally ill. Try to focus.

 

[BasedLutheran]

My comment isn't about criminals but the mentally ill. Try to focus.

The same applies there. The mentally ill in particular are unlikely to know the laws at all or if they do, believe they apply to them

 

[timothyu]

The same applies there. The mentally ill in particular are unlikely to know the laws at all or if they do, believe they apply to them

The same applies to individuals, let alone their religious groups, that missed the memo about rendering unto Caesar, when they insist they are to follow God's laws only.

 

[DaisyDay]

The same applies there. The mentally ill in particular are unlikely to know the laws at all or if they do, believe they apply to them

I wonder if we as a culture should reconsider allowing mentally ill folk such easy access to deadly weapons.

 

[BasedLutheran]

I wonder if we as a culture should reconsider allowing mentally ill folk such easy access to deadly weapons.

True, liberals, especially of the transgender type, should probably be banned from owning guns