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like any good CIA mercenary, the suspect had to do a bit of killing to prove his bona fides
"...Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who was arrested for shooting two National Guard soldiers last week in D.C., was briefly imprisoned in Afghanistan alongside other members of his Zero Unit team, according to five Afghan sources. The detention by local government forces came after Zero Units killed Afghan police forces in Kandahar they were supposed to be defending.
Notwithstanding their arrests, there were no longterm consequences for the Zero Units; the Afghan state had no authority over them and the Americans shielded them. During his few days in prison, which Lakanwal and his comrades had to face after the incident in Kandahar, they still received their pay from the CIA, sources said.
The CIA did not respond to a request for comment.
The deadly assault last week near the White House was like a scene drawn from the world that the suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, once inhabited in Afghanistan and which was shaped by the U.S.-led War on Terror during the last two decades. He allegedly targeted two National Guard soldiers in an ambush outside the Farragut West Metro station in Washington, D.C. One of them, Sarah Beckstrom, has since died, while the second remains in critical condition. President Donald Trump condemned the attack as an “act of terror” and blamed his predecessor, Joe Biden, for evacuating Lakanwal to the United States in 2021 during the chaotic NATO withdrawal and the Taliban’s return. Lakanwal is facing murder charges.
The Afghan father of five was not a simple interpreter or contractor, like many of the thousands evacuated at that time. He belonged to a notorious militia created by the CIA at the height of the War on Terror: the so-called Zero Units. These forces operated in several regions of Afghanistan; in his home province of Khost, parallel structures like the Khost Protection Force (KPF) did the same. Together they formed a network of loyal proxies that the CIA relied on for night raids, intelligence work, and counterinsurgency, often operating far beyond any legal or moral boundaries.
“A lot of these men just did what they wanted with impunity,” said Noor ul-Hadi, a resident of the country’s Nangarhar province where many Zero Units once operated. In 2012, Abdul Hadi Mohmand, Noor ul-Hadi’s own father, was killed in a night-raid conducted by both U.S. soldiers and Afghan militiamen. Mohmand worked for the local government and was not part of any extremist group. “Like many other families with a similar fate, we couldn’t do anything against his murder,” Noor ul-Hadi recalled.
Sources in Lakanwal’s home district of Lakan say that his unit did not only operate in Khost but also carried out operations in Kandahar, where they committed war crimes. One of Lakanwal’s ID cards, which has been published during the last days, also says that he used to be part of the U.S.-backed “Kandahar Strike Force,” another branding of the Zero Unit stationed in the province back then. According to several people from Lakanwal’s neighboring village, members of his unit were notorious criminals. Another man from Khost City, who knew Lakanwal personally and asked to remain anonymous, claims that his unit regularly raided random villages and that some members were not happy about killing “fellow Afghans” without any proof of their Taliban background.
“Overall, they did what the Americans ordered them and they were free to do anything else too,” he told Drop Site News. Militias like the Zero Units and the KPF also assisted the Americans in airstrikes and were granted the authorization to order them by themselves. In many cases, civilians were bombed. “They told us to leave and declared our killed family members as terrorists”, a member of a local nomad tribe said. Six of his family members were killed in June 2015 by an American drone strike. In total, 14 civilians were murdered. After the massacre, KPF fighters appeared and secured the area.
According to local sources from Lakanwal’s district, operations by the Zero Units even killed high-ranking Afghan policemen working for the same U.S.-allied government. they were ostensibly defending. “In one case, the CIA-backed units had a dispute with policemen about the handling of Taliban prisoners,” one local from Khost told Drop Site News. “It resulted in a brutal fight with several dead men.” None of Drop Site’s sources could put an exact date on the incident, though all said it happened sometime since 2018.
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"...Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who was arrested for shooting two National Guard soldiers last week in D.C., was briefly imprisoned in Afghanistan alongside other members of his Zero Unit team, according to five Afghan sources. The detention by local government forces came after Zero Units killed Afghan police forces in Kandahar they were supposed to be defending.
Notwithstanding their arrests, there were no longterm consequences for the Zero Units; the Afghan state had no authority over them and the Americans shielded them. During his few days in prison, which Lakanwal and his comrades had to face after the incident in Kandahar, they still received their pay from the CIA, sources said.
The CIA did not respond to a request for comment.
The deadly assault last week near the White House was like a scene drawn from the world that the suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, once inhabited in Afghanistan and which was shaped by the U.S.-led War on Terror during the last two decades. He allegedly targeted two National Guard soldiers in an ambush outside the Farragut West Metro station in Washington, D.C. One of them, Sarah Beckstrom, has since died, while the second remains in critical condition. President Donald Trump condemned the attack as an “act of terror” and blamed his predecessor, Joe Biden, for evacuating Lakanwal to the United States in 2021 during the chaotic NATO withdrawal and the Taliban’s return. Lakanwal is facing murder charges.
The Afghan father of five was not a simple interpreter or contractor, like many of the thousands evacuated at that time. He belonged to a notorious militia created by the CIA at the height of the War on Terror: the so-called Zero Units. These forces operated in several regions of Afghanistan; in his home province of Khost, parallel structures like the Khost Protection Force (KPF) did the same. Together they formed a network of loyal proxies that the CIA relied on for night raids, intelligence work, and counterinsurgency, often operating far beyond any legal or moral boundaries.
“A lot of these men just did what they wanted with impunity,” said Noor ul-Hadi, a resident of the country’s Nangarhar province where many Zero Units once operated. In 2012, Abdul Hadi Mohmand, Noor ul-Hadi’s own father, was killed in a night-raid conducted by both U.S. soldiers and Afghan militiamen. Mohmand worked for the local government and was not part of any extremist group. “Like many other families with a similar fate, we couldn’t do anything against his murder,” Noor ul-Hadi recalled.
Sources in Lakanwal’s home district of Lakan say that his unit did not only operate in Khost but also carried out operations in Kandahar, where they committed war crimes. One of Lakanwal’s ID cards, which has been published during the last days, also says that he used to be part of the U.S.-backed “Kandahar Strike Force,” another branding of the Zero Unit stationed in the province back then. According to several people from Lakanwal’s neighboring village, members of his unit were notorious criminals. Another man from Khost City, who knew Lakanwal personally and asked to remain anonymous, claims that his unit regularly raided random villages and that some members were not happy about killing “fellow Afghans” without any proof of their Taliban background.
“Overall, they did what the Americans ordered them and they were free to do anything else too,” he told Drop Site News. Militias like the Zero Units and the KPF also assisted the Americans in airstrikes and were granted the authorization to order them by themselves. In many cases, civilians were bombed. “They told us to leave and declared our killed family members as terrorists”, a member of a local nomad tribe said. Six of his family members were killed in June 2015 by an American drone strike. In total, 14 civilians were murdered. After the massacre, KPF fighters appeared and secured the area.
According to local sources from Lakanwal’s district, operations by the Zero Units even killed high-ranking Afghan policemen working for the same U.S.-allied government. they were ostensibly defending. “In one case, the CIA-backed units had a dispute with policemen about the handling of Taliban prisoners,” one local from Khost told Drop Site News. “It resulted in a brutal fight with several dead men.” None of Drop Site’s sources could put an exact date on the incident, though all said it happened sometime since 2018.
Locals Say National Guard Shooter Was Imprisoned in Afghanistan After “Zero Unit” Killings
Before D.C. shooter Rahmanullah Lakanwal attacked two National Guard members last week, he was part of a CIA-backed unit that killed many Afghans.
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