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2025-11-27 Home Front: WoT
Day 2, Part 1 of DC Nat’l Guard ambush: Gunman arrested, identified as Afghan soldier who overstayed visa, came during Biden 2021 withdrawal
See Day 2, Part 2 here. Day 1 can be seen here. No official photo yet, though there is an unconfirmed photo circulating on Facebook.

Two National Guard members shot near White House, Afghan national suspect in custody: 'Act of evil'
[FoxNews] The shooting is being investigated as a potential act of international terrorism; suspect identified as an Afghan national

The suspected gunman accused of shooting two National Guard members blocks from the White House the day before Thanksgiving is 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, three law enforcement sources confirmed to Fox News Digital.

Lakanwal, an illegal migrant who entered the U.S. after the withdrawal from Afghanistan, was granted humanitarian parole per DHS sources.
No mention of Biden 'illegal orders' to let them in.
Authorities are investigating the shooting as a possible act of international terrorism.

FBI officials confirmed the two West Virginia National Guardsmen remain in critical condition.

"This is a targeted shooting," D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser explained during a news conference Wednesday after the shooting. "One individual appeared to target these guardsmen. That individual has been taken into custody," she confirmed.

Metropolitan Police Department official Jeffery Carroll also explained how the suspect had come around a corner, raised his arm with a firearm, and "discharged it at the National Guard members."

"They were able to, after some back and forth, able to subdue the individual and bring them into custody within moments," he described. "Members of law enforcement in the area were also able to assist and bring that individual into custody," he said.

He added, "Both of the individuals, the guard members, are in critical condition at a local hospital at this time being treated. At this point, we have no other suspects."

The White House was placed on lockdown following the shooting. President Donald Trump is not in Washington, D.C., having left for Mar-a-Lago in Florida on Monday for the Thanksgiving holiday.

According to Reuters, as of Wednesday morning, approximately 2,200 National Guard troops were deployed in Washington, D.C. This included personnel from the District of Columbia as well as units from Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, South Carolina, West Virginia, Georgia and Alabama.

Trump shared a post on Truth Social in the wake of the shooting and expressed solidarity with the victims, as well as dismay at the incident that unfolded earlier near the White House.

"The animal that shot the two National Guardsmen, with both being critically wounded, and now in two separate hospitals, is also severely wounded, but regardless, will pay a very steep price," Trump said.

"God bless our Great National Guard, and all of our Military and Law Enforcement. These are truly Great People. I, as President of the United States, and everyone associated with the Office of the Presidency, am with you!"

Vice President JD Vance, who was in Fort Campbell at the time of the shooting, also said "everybody who’s a person of faith" to pray for the two Guardsmen.

"I think it’s a somber reminder that soldiers, whether they’re active duty, reserve or National Guard, our soldiers are the sword and the shield of the United States of America," Vance added.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth spoke in the wake of the shooting and said Trump asked him to deploy 500 additional troops to the city.

"This will only stiffen our resolve to ensure that we make Washington DC safe and beautiful," he told reporters Wednesday.

"The drop in crime has been historic. The increase in safety and security has been historic. But if criminals want to conduct things like this, violence against America's best, we will never back down. President Trump will never back down. That's why the American people elected him. America and our warriors, our National Guardsmen, are strong," Hesgeth said.

Alleged DC National Guardsmen shooter was in Afghan army, served alongside US troops: report
[NYPost] The Afghan national who allegedly shot two National Guard soldiers in a possible terror attack inside the nation’s capital Wednesday served alongside American troops in his home country before coming to the US, according to a report.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, who sources say was in the US illegally after overstaying his visa, was a member of the Afghan Army stationed in Kandahar where he supported US Special Forces in the region, a relative told NBC News.

Lakanwal was injured while serving in the army and fled Afghanistan, entering the US in September 2021 through the Biden administration’s botched refugee program Operation Allies Welcome.

"We were the ones that were targeted by the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
 in Afghanistan," the relative told the outlet. "I cannot believe it that he might do this," he said.

Lakanwal allegedly ambushed the two National Guard members near the White House, lying in wait before opening fire in a brazen attack.

He allegedly shot a female guard in the chest and head before pumping a bullet into another guard.

The alleged gunman was then shot by return gunfire.

Police have not revealed a motive for the attack.

Lakanwal had been living in Bellingham, Washington, a community close to the Canadian border that accepted other refugees from Afghanistan.

President Trump, in a televised message delivered Tuesday night, called Lakanwal’s attack an "act of terror."

"It was a crime against our entire nation. It was a crime against humanity," Trump said.
The Daily Mail adds:
The man who shot and seriously wounded two West Virginia National Guard members near the White House on Wednesday afternoon has been identified as Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, according to the FBI.

Lakanwal emigrated to the United States during President Joe Biden's chaotic military withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, the New York Post reported.

He arrived through a program called Operation Allies Welcome, per The New York Times. The Biden-era initiative provided safe haven to Afghans looking to flee Taliban rule in their country.

Lakanwal, 29, was taken into custody after allegedly launching the assault at around 2:10pm at Farragut West metro station, which is in the center of Washington, DC.

The attack, which is now being investigated as an act of terrorism, quickly turned into a shootout after the suspect reportedly got three shots off before officials returned fire.

The perpetrator came around a corner, raised his gun and fired at the guard members, according to Jeffery Carroll, the Executive Assistant Chief of the Washington Metropolitan Police Department.

Carroll added that the suspect was subdued by other guardsmen after 'some back and forth'. When he was taken into custody, he did not have an ID on him and was reportedly not cooperating with investigators.

Both National Guard members were shot in the head, and CNN obtained a cell phone video showing authorities performing CPR on one of the guardsmen.

Both guard members are in critical condition and Lakanwal, who was also shot, has non-life-threatening injuries, according to federal law enforcement officials.

Lakanwal was identified by authorities through his fingerprints, though officials are still working to confirm other details of his identity.

FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed that two victims were being treated at a local hospital after West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey earlier sparked confusion by announcing the soldiers were dead before walking back his statement.

Patel added that the suspect would be charged with assaulting a federal law enforcement officer. The maximum penalty for this offense is 20 years in prison.

West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey said the two wounded soldiers 'volunteered their time,' along with others, to serve during the Thanksgiving holiday.
Interesting report from Newsweek:
The Afghan national suspected of shooting two National Guard members near the White House on Wednesday had worked with the CIA, the agency’s director said, according to Fox News Digital.

The comments come amid an investigation into the shooting near the White House, which officials described as a targeted ambush. The Guard members, who have not been identified, remain in critical condition.

CIA director John Ratcliffe told Fox News Digital: "The Biden administration justified bringing the alleged shooter to the United States in September 2021 due to his prior work with the U.S. government, including CIA."
Intelligence sources told Fox that the suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, had ties with various entities in the U.S. government, including the CIA, due to his work as a member of a partner force in Kandahar before the U.S. withdrawal.

CIA director John Ratcliffe told Fox News Digital: "The Biden administration justified bringing the alleged shooter to the United States in September 2021 due to his prior work with the U.S. government, including CIA."

He added that Lakanwal "and so many others—should have never been allowed to come here."

Newsweek has contacted the CIA for comment outside of regular office hours.
NBC Chicago has more about the shooter’s army service:
A relative of Lakanwal’s said he arrived in the United States in September 2021 after having served in the Afghan army for 10 years alongside U.S. Special Forces troops. Lakanwal was stationed at a base in Kandahar for part of the time he served in the army, the relative said.

The relative who spoke with NBC News served with Lakanwal, supporting U.S. troops.

“We were the ones that were targeted by the Taliban in Afghanistan,” he said.

“I cannot believe it that he might do this,” the relative added.

Lakanwal, who grew up in Khost province, was living in Bellingham, Washington, with his wife and five children, the relative said.

The relative said he has not spoken to Lakanwal in several months. The last time they spoke, Lakanwal was working for Amazon and Amazon Flex.

Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday night.

“I don’t know what happened,” the relative said, his voice cracking with emotion. He added: “I need your help to know why this happened.”

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-11-27 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1861 views ]  Top
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1 Alleged DC shooter entered US under Afghan resettlement push Mayorkas vowed would be done ‘swiftly and safely'
Posted by Skidmark 2025-11-27 00:47||   2025-11-27 00:47|| Front Page Top

2 The DNC O'Biden coup again, strikes out against the defenders of the US Constitution and those seeking restore Civil Law and Order.
Posted by NN2N1 2025-11-27 00:52||   2025-11-27 00:52|| Front Page Top

3 2 National Guardsmen critically wounded in 'targeted shooting' blocks from White House

Vice President JD Vance said Afghan refugees allowed entry into the U.S. in 2021 "shouldn't have been in our country" after an Afghan national shot two National Guard members on Wednesday.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville argued that the U.S. must immediately ban "all Islam immigrants" and "deport every single Islamist" currently living in the country after an Afghan national shot two National Guard members on Wednesday.

Homeland Security Adviser Stephen Miller argued on Wednesday that the U.S. has "never faced a threat like this" after an Afghan national allegedly shot two members of the National Guard.

"We've never faced a threat like this. 20 million people brought into our country from the most failed societies on earth ... no vetting, no conditions, no rules," Miller said during an appearance on Fox News.
Posted by Skidmark 2025-11-27 00:56||   2025-11-27 00:56|| Front Page Top

4 All here with expired visas consider terrorists and execute immediately. The others revoke their visas and deport them immediately.
Posted by DarthVader 2025-11-27 01:01||   2025-11-27 01:01|| Front Page Top

5 Trump went on to warn authorities 'must now re-examine every single alien who has entered our country from Afghanistan under Biden, and we must take all necessary measures to ensure the removal of any alien from any country who does not belong here or add benefit to our country.
Posted by Skidmark 2025-11-27 01:11||   2025-11-27 01:11|| Front Page Top

6 Execute? No, but definitely turn themselves in to be processed for expulsion or to take themselves immediately home without waiting for the government to do it to them. Unless they are criminals, in which case they would be better off if they don’t make our people find them..

Jihadis, though? Execution is only fair, given their intentions.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-11-27 01:47||   2025-11-27 01:47|| Front Page Top

7 Execute the fuck out of them! And their family, and friends , and the goddamn neighbors. They understand that and will not will not want to migrate here.
Posted by chris 2025-11-27 02:32||   2025-11-27 02:32|| Front Page Top

8 Question. Before that happened - what's the record on Afghan refugees anti-American activity?
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-11-27 02:36||   2025-11-27 02:36|| Front Page Top

9 ... Because I don't recollect hearing about them here in Rantburg.
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-11-27 02:38||   2025-11-27 02:38|| Front Page Top

10 Wasn’t there a young man who massacred dozens of customers at a gay bar in Florida, Grom, much to his wife’s shock? There have been several attacks and plans for attacks, I believe.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-11-27 03:00||   2025-11-27 03:00|| Front Page Top

11 Yea, but not much compared to the other Muslim populations in USA. Which - makes me wonder: qui bono?
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-11-27 04:09||   2025-11-27 04:09|| Front Page Top

12 Indeed, qui bono?
Posted by DooDahMan 2025-11-27 06:05||   2025-11-27 06:05|| Front Page Top

13 @8
This happened 4/23/2025:

"Bodycam video shows ex-Afghan translator drawing gun on police before fatal shooting during traffic stop"
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-11-27 06:26||   2025-11-27 06:26|| Front Page Top

14 All here with expired visas consider terrorists

Trump Deputy Tightened Security Checks on Biden’s Afghan Migrants Last Week
Posted by Skidmark 2025-11-27 09:12||   2025-11-27 09:12|| Front Page Top

15 

National Guard soldiers shot in Washington DC 'terror attack' are named... as Afghan gunman's chilling 40-hour drive across the country emerges
Posted by Skidmark 2025-11-27 10:09||   2025-11-27 10:09|| Front Page Top

16 It was Omar Mateen, 29, whose father was a Dari-speaking FBI informant and Taliban-supporter. He killed 49 for ISIS at the Pulse gay nightclub on 12. June, 2016.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-11-27 10:32||   2025-11-27 10:32|| Front Page Top

17 Nice dig.
Posted by Skidmark 2025-11-27 10:48||   2025-11-27 10:48|| Front Page Top

18 Blue on Green - brought to you by FJB. Stay tuned for more after a word from our sponsors...
Posted by Bangkok Billy 2025-11-27 10:50||   2025-11-27 10:50|| Front Page Top

19 I looked at Fox online about 15 minutes ago and they said he (and his family, wife, five kids; residing in Washington state.) was brought into the country under Biden's term because he had assisted US forces in Afghanistan and became a legal immigrant under Trump's term.

What would make a man, who had helped the US in Afghanistan and now a legal immigrant, risk his life and the well being on his family to drive across the country to shoot two WV National Guard members?

If the shooter was a "sleeper" either on his own or controlled by a person, organization or government, that's taking a long view.

And why shoot two National Guardsmen? There weren't any higher value targets to go after?
Posted by Chantry 2025-11-27 10:58||   2025-11-27 10:58|| Front Page Top

20 B-ham would be a good of example of a place created for non-believers, to be polite. maybe more attention should be paid to where some of these individuals were settled, how the local community reinforces bad actor propaganda of USA as devil. the community and schools could be preceived as abhorrent to anyone with a normal, let alone devout, belief in a morality based faith.
Posted by jefe101 2025-11-27 11:45||   2025-11-27 11:45|| Front Page Top

21 @19

The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (our "allies") was an anti-Western polity in which the exercise of self-evident human rights carried the death penalty. They were an improvement over the Taliban because they were mostly passive-aggressive.

The Western mission in Afghanistan was an attempt to appease the Afghans by paying danegeld, rendering services for free and making political concessions so that the Afghans would no longer support terror attacks.

Afghanistan and other Islamic states have repeatedly openly disrespected Western nations's basic right to self-determination.

An attack by an individual who was loyal to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan should not come as a surprise.
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-11-27 13:10||   2025-11-27 13:10|| Front Page Top

22 Let's see, Muslim refugee admitted by Biden shoots two American soldiers after Senator Kelly et al. lecture our soldiers on the need to disobey unlawful orders. This is going down the memory hole at warp speed. Except we won't let it.
Posted by Matt 2025-11-27 14:18||   2025-11-27 14:18|| Front Page Top

23 He apparently was fine until his visa expired. Then he took revenge. This is a common pattern in Europe and Britain, too: nothing more than petty criminality (theft, harassment, rape) until their asylum application is definitively rejected, then they kill.

So President Trump’s concern about those whose visas have expired has a solid basis.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-11-27 15:58||   2025-11-27 15:58|| Front Page Top

24 
…who was unarmed and doing his spot checks of the guardsmen was in the block, heard the shots and turned to see the shooter who spotted him. He took cover behind a truck.

The suspect came for the Major who pulled out his pocket knife, and bravely took on the suspect who was reloading his revolver.

The Major began stabbing the suspect in the head.

Another guardsman in the area who was armed, them drew his pistol and shot the suspect twice, once in the leg and once in the buttocks.

The Major stated that when the suspect began shooting he heard him shout, Allahu akbar!”

I just briefed [omitted].

Now, you know too.

There’s more: we trying to confirm if the suspect, an Afghan national was an interpreter brought over by Biden, because he has a Department of Defense record. Again, we are trying to confirm.

The suspect has a home address in Washington State.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-11-27 16:13||   2025-11-27 16:13|| Front Page Top

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