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Not a lot of reporting on this story outside of local news and Fox News, weird. This had some good reporting

https://abc57.com/news/two-national-guardsmen-shot-in-washington-dc-according-to-dhs-chief

Unfortunate that people are starting to take the bait and retaliate against NG service members deployed to menace local populations

 

Edit: and we should probably update the thread title to be more accurate 

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1 hour ago, Captainant said:

Not a lot of reporting on this story outside of local news and Fox News, weird. This had some good reporting

https://abc57.com/news/two-national-guardsmen-shot-in-washington-dc-according-to-dhs-chief

Unfortunate that people are starting to take the bait and retaliate against NG service members deployed to menace local populations

 

Edit: and we should probably update the thread title to be more accurate 

Why are you speculating that this is retaliation against the NG. Early returns see that the gunman was an Afghanistani who wasn’t even living in DC to be “menaced.”

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Multiple law enforcement officials briefed on the matter later told CNN the FBI believes they’ve identified the suspect. The officials said the shooter’s initial identification matches a man from Washington state who appears to have immigrated here from Afghanistan in 2021. The suspect applied for asylum in 2024, and it was granted earlier this year.

 

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From NBC:
 

What we know so far:

  • Two National Guard members were shot this afternoon in what appeared to be a "targeted" attack near the White House and are in critical condition, Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser said. The gunman was also shot and is in custody, authorities said.
  • Rahmanullah Lakanwal has been identified as the suspect, four senior law enforcement sources briefed on the investigation said.
  • The FBI will initially investigate the shooting as a possible act of terrorism, two senior U.S. law enforcement officials said.
  • West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey initially said that the guard members were from his state and had died, but he later walked that back, saying his office had received “conflicting reports” about their status.
  • Around 2,100 National Guard troops were in D.C. as of this morning, according to Joint Task Force — District of Columbia.
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Dude worked with the CIA.  Afghan who was part spook.  Trump stupidly yanked all the troops out and handed the country over to the Taliban so this guy needs to get out of Dodge.  Applies for asylum.  Gets it in April of this year under Trump's regime.  Travels 3K miles from Washington state to D.C. to kill two Nat'l Guardsmen right after a judge rules that it's illegal to have them deployed there.  Hmmmmmm.  What a kawinkidink.  

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/27/washington-dc-national-guard-shooting-suspect

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Listen, obviously it's the crazy dude with a gun's fault for people getting shot, but maybe, just maybe, sending a military presence to an American city armed to the gills is a great way to raise the temperature and escalate violence.

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9 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

Huh… D.C. has extremely strict gun control laws

That "armed to the gills" is in reference to the National Guard.

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Senator Barrasso: "…what percentage of the Afghan population that left Afghanistan as part of our U.S. evacuation efforts, what percentage of those were vetted before they actually got on the airplanes?"

Secretary Blinken: "Before they got on the airplanes to leave Kabul? Certainly not most of them were not."

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8 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

Senator Barrasso: "…what percentage of the Afghan population that left Afghanistan as part of our U.S. evacuation efforts, what percentage of those were vetted before they actually got on the airplanes?"

Secretary Blinken: "Before they got on the airplanes to leave Kabul? Certainly not most of them were not."

But yet he was. So what’s your point?

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45 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

Senator Barrasso: "…what percentage of the Afghan population that left Afghanistan as part of our U.S. evacuation efforts, what percentage of those were vetted before they actually got on the airplanes?"

Secretary Blinken: "Before they got on the airplanes to leave Kabul? Certainly not most of them were not."

Wait, so you’re saying before granting this shooter asylum six months ago, the Trump Administration didn’t vet him?

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2 hours ago, BabaYaga said:

Senator Barrasso: "…what percentage of the Afghan population that left Afghanistan as part of our U.S. evacuation efforts, what percentage of those were vetted before they actually got on the airplanes?"

Secretary Blinken: "Before they got on the airplanes to leave Kabul? Certainly not most of them were not."

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50 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

He's pretty shitty for ducking and weaving on the asylum thing when he could have just addressed the fact that it's a mental health issue.

Oh that’s why he’s shitty?

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45 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

He's pretty shitty for ducking and weaving on the asylum thing when he could have just addressed the fact that it's a mental health issue.

Right. But then the regime misses an opportunity to continue to demonize Brown foreigners, in general, and Muslims, in particular. Acknowledging a potential mental health problem like PTSD would be like recognizing the killer's humanity, and we couldn't have that. They must forever remain the proverbial "Other" so that American hatred and blame for our problems are targeted at Brown foreigners instead of at the asshole billionaires picking our pockets.

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12 hours ago, bolverk said:

Right. But then the regime misses an opportunity to continue to demonize Brown foreigners, in general, and Muslims, in particular. Acknowledging a potential mental health problem like PTSD would be like recognizing the killer's humanity, and we couldn't have that. They must forever remain the proverbial "Other" so that American hatred and blame for our problems are targeted at Brown foreigners instead of at the asshole billionaires picking our pockets.

 

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On 11/27/2025 at 11:49 AM, SpiralOut said:

Dude worked with the CIA.  Afghan who was part spook.  Trump stupidly yanked all the troops out and handed the country over to the Taliban so this guy needs to get out of Dodge.  Applies for asylum.  Gets it in April of this year under Trump's regime.  Travels 3K miles from Washington state to D.C. to kill two Nat'l Guardsmen right after a judge rules that it's illegal to have them deployed there.  Hmmmmmm.  What a kawinkidink.  

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/27/washington-dc-national-guard-shooting-suspect

When did we start rewriting history outside of the CR? I'm not even a Trumper and this is caca de Toro 

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4 minutes ago, Longhornstampede said:

When did we start rewriting history outside of the CR? I'm not even a Trumper and this is caca de Toro 

Google is your friend 

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6 minutes ago, Longhornstampede said:

When did we start rewriting history outside of the CR? I'm not even a Trumper and this is caca de Toro 

That's literally what happened. 

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3 hours ago, Longhornstampede said:

When did we start rewriting history outside of the CR? I'm not even a Trumper and this is caca de Toro 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States–Taliban_deal

Negotiated for the U.S. by Zalmay Khalilzad for the first Trump administration, the negotiations for the agreement did not involve the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, the Afghan government at the time.[4] The deal, which also had secret annexes, was one of the critical events that caused the collapse of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF).

Insurgent attacks against the Afghan security forces surged in the aftermath of the deal, however, with thousands killed. Regardless, withdrawals per the agreement continued. By January 2021, just 2,500 U.S. troops remained in the country, and NATO forces fully evacuated by the end of that summer. The U.S. completed its full evacuation on August 30, 2021, as the Taliban took control of the country by force.

Trump, the ultimate deal master, gave the Taliban everything while not involving any of the Afghan folks who weren't Taliban that we'd been working with for years.  The Taliban then, of course, waltz in, killed a bunch of people, and took over everything. 

However, in the aftermath of the agreement, the U.S. stopped supporting the Afghan military in its offensive operations, forcing it to take mostly defensive positions around the country. According to the agreement, U.S. military aircraft could not attack Taliban groups waiting more than 500 meters away, giving the Taliban an edge in targeting Afghan military units.[citation needed] The agreement also exacerbated the decline in morale of the Afghan army and police, making them more open to accepting bargains with the Taliban. Due to a lack of information and secret annexes in the agreement, that had not been shared even with the then Afghan government, the Taliban were able to spread propaganda and disinformation about the agreement, including convincing local police and military units that the U.S. had handed over territories to the Taliban and that they should abandon their positions.[51]

In the 45 days after the agreement (between March 1 and April 15, 2020), the Taliban conducted more than 4,500 attacks in Afghanistan, an increase of more than 70% compared to the same period in the previous year.

So basically, Trump completely abandoned our allies in Afghanistan like this shooter.  He allowed the Taliban to go hog wild and kept American forces from fighting back.  He pulled the large majority of our forces out which essentially handed the entire country over to the Taliban.  The Taliban kills swathes of Afghan military forces and people from the government while we sit and twiddle our fingers.  Those guys, predictably, then say fuck this shit and bail or start switching sides.  Then Biden got stuck with the mess.  By the time Biden took office there were hardly any American troops left, the Afghan forces were in complete disarray, and the damage had already been done.  At that point there was nothing to do except pull the few remaining troops out and leave all the equipment Trump didn't bother to tell the Pentagon to remove beforehand.  

So the Taliban got to keep a bunch of the equipment we abandoned.  Which is where you get videos like this:

Art of the Deal, baby!  We get nothing and our enemies get everything!  Oh, and the poor, stupid idiots that thought we were actually going to have their backs and who believed our bullshit got ruthlessly murdered.  Ah well, thems the breaks!  

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8 hours ago, Longhornstampede said:

When did we start rewriting history outside of the CR? I'm not even a Trumper and this is caca de Toro 

Now lets hear your expert side of the story.

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