The Afghan national accused of shooting two National Guard members is believed to have worked with United States government agencies.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe told Fox News that 29-year-old Rahmanullah Lakanwal entered the United States under the Biden administration. “In the wake of the disastrous Biden withdrawal from Afghanistan, 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, as a member of a partner force in Kandahar, which ended shortly following the chaotic evacuation,” CIA Director John Ratcliffe told the outlet. “The individual—and so many others—should have never been allowed to come here. Our citizens and service members deserve far better than to endure the ongoing fallout from the Biden administration’s catastrophic failures.”
“God bless our brave troops,” Ratcliffe added.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement that Lakanwal was “one of the many unvetted, mass paroled into the United States under Operation Allies Welcome on September 8, 2021, under the Biden Administration.”
“I will not utter this depraved individual’s name. He should be starved of the glory he so desperately wants,” she said, going on to declare that she will be praying for the National Guardsmen and their families.
President Donald Trump reiterated in an address to the nation that the Afghan national was “flown in by the Biden administration in September 2021.”
“Nobody knew who was coming in. Nobody knew anything about it,” he stated. “His status was extended by legislation that was signed by President Biden. A disastrous president – the worst in the history of our country.”
