"As Emran Feroz laid out in his recent Truthout op-ed, abundant evidence suggests that the suspected shooter, an Afghan asylee named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was shaped by serious trauma-related post-traumatic stress disorder following his years of service on behalf of U.S. empire, and that he was trained as a boy to commit violence as part of the "CIA's own paramilitary forces in Afghanistan: the Zero Units." The CIA-backed militia has been linked to war crimes in Khost, Kandahar, and elsewhere."
"And despite these facts, the white supremacist administration of Donald Trump has seized on the shooting not to reevaluate CIA practices or mental health supports in the U.S., but instead to collectively punish as many communities of color as possible. Trump Inflicts Collective Punishment on Immigrants Instead of exploring the roots of Lakanwal's unravelling by reevaluating the CIA's vast landscape of war crimes, littered with the blood"
The November 26, 2025, Washington, D.C. shooting highlighted a white supremacist environment where people of color are treated as targets and face collective punishment. Evidence indicates the suspected shooter, Afghan asylee Rahmanullah Lakanwal, suffered trauma-related PTSD after years of service on behalf of U.S. interests and was trained as a child in CIA-linked paramilitary units known as the Zero Units. The CIA-backed militia has been associated with war crimes in Khost, Kandahar, and elsewhere. The Trump administration reacted by intensifying anti-immigrant measures, halting immigration processing for Afghans and nationals from numerous non-white countries, amplifying a racist crackdown.
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