One of the National Guard solider’s has died from. gunshot wounds….
She was a 20 year old…..
The shooter was operative for the CIA in Afghanistan who had entered the US in 2021 as a legal immigrant in a resettlement program…..
The CIA angle WILL have people in the Govt. worried ….
Below is a further Update…..
An Afghan national who previously worked with the CIA will face multiple criminal charges after federal authorities said he drove across the country and shot two National Guard members — one fatally — in an ambush Wednesday afternoon near the White House.
The shooting, which came months into the Guard’s deployment in the District at President Donald Trump’s behest, has sparked an intense, international investigation into the motive of the alleged gunman, 29-year-old Rahmanullah Lakanwal of Bellingham, Washington state, who came to the United States in September 2021 after working for a CIA-organized counterterrorism squad.
Lakanwal, who was detained moments after the shooting, was part of one of the CIA’s “Zero Units” that were involved in combat missions to seize or kill suspected terrorists, according to several people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss details of the investigation.
Jeanine Pirro, U.S. attorney for D.C., said at a news conference Thursday that Lakanwal came to the nation’s capital to commit what officials called a “targeted attack,” shooting two West Virginia National Guard members — Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and Andrew Wolfe, 24.
In a call with service members Thursday night, Trump said Beckstrom had died after being “savagely” attacked. Wolfe, he said, was still fighting for his life.
Earlier in the day, Pirro had reported that both members were in critical condition after undergoing surgeries. The victims had been in the nation’s capital since August, when Trump deployed troops alongside federal law enforcement officers to quell violence in the city amid what he called a “crime emergency.”…
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At Thursday’s news conference, Bowser said the Guard members were “young people” who “should be at home in West Virginia with their families.” She said that “somebody drove across the country, came to Washington, D.C., to attack America, and that person will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”….
image…National Guard members and others pray outside MedStar Washington Hospital Center on Wednesday. (Tom Brenner/For The Washington Post)
Update on the National Guard in DC…..
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Wednesday to immediately end its current deployment of California National Guard troops in Los Angeles, ruling that the federal government had illegally kept them in the city long after intense street protests had ended in the summer.
The ruling by Judge Charles R. Breyer of the Federal District Court in San Francisco applies to about 100 National Guard soldiers who remain in Los Angeles six months after protests erupted over immigration raids.
Judge Breyer directed the federal government to return control of the troops to Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, but he stayed his order until Monday. The Trump administration is expected to appeal.
“The Founders designed our government to be a system of checks and balances,” Judge Breyer wrote in his decision. “Defendants, however, make clear that the only check they want is a blank one.”
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