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The man suspected of shooting two National Guard members, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was once part of a C.I.A.-backed paramilitary group, one of several so-called Zero Units, according to Afghan and U.S. officials.
These units, formerly known as Counterterrorism Pursuit Teams, were trained to conduct night raids and clandestine missions across Afghanistan during the U.S. war in the country. By the time the United States had withdrawn from Afghanistan in August 2021,
the units had offi…

Here’s a Look at the D.C. Shooting Suspect’s C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan
The units were backed by the C.I.A. and trained to conduct missions in Afghanistan during the U.S. war in the country.

Suspected Shooter Was in a 'Zero Unit' in Afghanistan. Here's What We Know. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/us/dc-shooting-suspect-afghanistan-cia-unit.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p42#a251127p42

Suspect in National Guard shooting served alongside U.S. troops in Afghanistan, relative says (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/suspect-national-guard-shooting-served-us-troops-afghanistan-relative-rcna246170
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p13#a251127p13

Lest we forget: "The U.S. exit from Afghanistan happened during former President Joe Biden's term, but it was set in motion by the first Trump administration, which signed a deal with the Taliban in 2020 to withdraw after two decades in the country."
A history of ‘Operation Allies Welcome,’ which allowed Afghans U.S. entry : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/27/nx-s1-5622991/afghan-refugee-program-national-guard-shooting-suspect

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/115963303958988100
Our soldiers and many others sacrificed an awful lot for 20 years... and for all intents and purposes the overall mission of creating a human rights respecting government in Afghanistan completely failed.
Lesson: Wars don't make human rights happen.

D.C. Shooting Suspect 'Could Not Tolerate' the Violence of His C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan, a Childhood Friend Said (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/us/national-guard-dc-shooting-suspect-cia-afghanistan.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p44#a251127p44

This was actually very interesting, even if like me, you're not into war stuff:
Bomb disposal veteran says nothing could have prepared his men for sights of Iraq war https://www.forcesnews.com/operations/afghanistan/trut…

The truth about British blood spilled in US wars, by decorated veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq
Major (Ret'd) Chris Hunter describes UK soldiers' actions alongside their US counterparts in Afghanistan as the epitome of honour and duty

Alleged National Guard shooter worked with US government entities in Afghanistan, including CIA: Ratcliffe (Brooke Singman/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/alleged-national-guard-shooter-worked-us-government-entities-afghanistan-including-cia-ratcliffe
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p2#a251127p2

Starmer rebukes #Trump over ‘frankly appalling’ remarks on Nato troops in Afghanistan
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/23/donald-trump-outrage-nato-troops-avoided-afghanistan-frontline?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Trump keeps saying wildly inappropriate things to journalists
but I’m sure he’s totally fine
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m6nmnfl6ga2d

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan

In the wake of the D.C. shooting,
the Trump administration will conduct a full review of Afghan nationals who were admitted to the U.S. under the Biden administration,
Donald Trump said.
“We must now reexamine every single alien who has entered our country from Afghanistan under Biden,
and we must take all necessary measures to ensure the removal of any alien from any country who does not belong here, or add benefit to our country.”

Live updates: 2 National Guard members in critical condition; D.C. shooting suspect said to be Afghan national
The suspect, who was also shot, was taken into custody, according to D.C. police. The suspected shooter is said to be an Afghan national.

Between February 12th and 15th, the U.S. sent 299 people—from countries such as Afghanistan, Cameroon, Somalia, and Iran—to Panama. On February 20th and 25th, the U.S. sent an additional 200 people, including 81 children, to Costa Rica. Soon afterward came third-country-deportation flights to Uzbekistan and El Salvador, where more than 250 non-Salvadoran immigrants were detained in the brutal Terrorism Confinement Center.

Disappeared to a Foreign Prison
The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries such as South Sudan, Ghana, and Eswatini, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled. Sarah Stillman reports.

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US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said that it has stopped processing all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said it was expanding that directive to include a review of all asylum cases approved under the Biden administration.
DHS did not clarify whether it is reviewing all asylum cases from only Afghanistan or from other countries, as well.
The USCIS director, Joseph Edlow, later added he was also dire…

Trump says U.S. must 're-examine' everyone who came from Afghanistan under Biden after National Guard shooting (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-re-examine-afghan-nationals-biden-administration-national-guard-rcna246172
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p3#a251127p3

Wieso hat ein Land, das nicht mehr existiert bei uns noch eine Vertretung? Warum wurde das Personal nicht aufgelöst und die Leute heimgeschickt?
https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/ndr/taliban-diplomaten-deutschland-afghanistan-100.html…

Afghanische Diplomaten in Deutschland: Der Plan der Taliban
Die Taliban wollen offenbar unbedingt weitere Diplomaten nach Deutschland schicken und haben dafür nach ARD-Recherchen wohl auch einen Weg gefunden - sie setzen so die Bundesregierung unter Druck.

Live Updates: D.C. Shooting Suspect Worked With C.I.A.-Backed Units in Afghanistan, Officials Say (Reuters)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/27/us/national-guard-shooting-dc?unlocked_article_code=1.4U8.K5Jq.8T4oZ7yzi2fD&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p11#a251127p11

Embattled Republican Representative Cory Mills
was caught with sex workers on an unofficial mission to Afghanistan in 2021, when he was still a congressional candidate. 
Mills was traveling with a group to Afghanistan to save Americans after former President Biden’s withdrawal from the country left the Taliban in power.
On their way, the group stopped in Tbilisi, Georgia, where Mills was caught in a hallway with sex workers,
leaving the group he traveled with irate, NO…

Republican Rep. Caught With Sex Workers Ahead of Trip to Afghanistan
Cory Mills can’t have one day without a scandal, apparently.

There seem to be no plans to haul in the US ambassador, as the Liberal Democrats are proposing.
(See 11.28am.)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/jan/23/uk-politic…

Prince Harry says Nato troops who served in Afghanistan deserve 'respect' in backlash against Trump's jibe (The Standard)
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/trump-afghanistan-row-nato-front-line-b1267783.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p134#a260123p134

Sowas, #zwischenwwach ;
träumte, daß ich (aus irgendwelchen Gründen auch) in #Afghanistan war.
Allerdings war es ein Ent'Taliban'isiertes Afghanistan, Frauen konnten unvermummelt herumlaufen, und überhaupt, immerhin sie konnten Kontakt zu westlichen Besuchern haben.

Weitere sollen folgen - Österreich schiebt erneut Mann nach Afghanistan ab #News #Nachrichten

Trump, in retreat, praises U.K. troops after royal family expresses hurt (Karla Adam/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/01/25/trump-british-troops-afghanistan-charles/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p32#a260125p32

Trump leaves NATO allies "dumbfounded" and "disgusted" with remarks dismissing sacrifices in Afghanistan (Haley Ott/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-nato-allies-disgusted-and-outraged-over-remarks-afghanistan-war/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p68#a260123p68

Fury over Trump's slur against British troops: Kemi Badenoch leads attack on president for 'flat-out nonsense' claim that NATO allies 'stayed off the front line' in Afghanistan (Daily Mail)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15490863/Fury-Trump-NATO-slur-Presidents-claim-UK-allied-troops-stayed-line-Afghanistan-absolute-insult-disgraceful.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p8#a260123p8

"Canal-top PV for Afghanistan’s massive irrigation project"
#Afghanistan #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Canal-top PV for Afghanistan’s massive irrigation project
A team of scientists has simulated covering 20% of the Qush-Tepa irrigation canal with PV panels. To this end, the researchers developed a framework, termed an integrated techno-economic-environmental assessment, that can be applied elsewhere. “It explicitly quantifies energy production, water-evaporation reduction, land-use savings, and economic performance within a single analytical structure,” one of the researchers said.

Starting up The Lair (2022) on @…'s recommendation, and damn, it starts out the gate blasting with a firefight, like Osiris 😂 no slow burn here! Love it. I mean, they get RIGHT the fuck into it. Wow 🔥
https://boxd.it/sy00

The Lair (2022)
Royal Air Force pilot Lt. Kate Sinclair is on her final flight mission when her jet is shot down over one of the most dangerous rebel strongholds in Afghanistan. She finds refuge in an abandoned underground bunker where deadly man-made creatures known as Ravagers — half-human, half-alien, and hungry for human flesh — are awakened.

TiPP Dokumentarfilm am 12. Januar um 23:05 Uhr in der #ARD oder in der Mediathek
„Die Fotografin und der Krieg“: Das Vermächtnis von Anja Niedringhaus
Die Pulitzer-Preisträgerin Anja #Niedringhaus wurde 2014 während eines Einsatzes in Afghanistan erschossen.

@… Aber Wählerwille umzusetzen, der im Widerspruch zur konstitutionellen Demokratie und zum Rechtsstaat steht, ist nicht demokratisch. Die Grenz-Schließungen und Abschiebungen nach Afghanistan begrüßen manche Wähler*innen sicher. Deshalb sind sie aber nicht rechtens und nicht demokratisch.

Colonial nations didn't stop colonialism because they became moral. They stopped because it was untenable. The advancement of asymmetric warfare made it impossible to maintain colonial holdings and those empires crumbled.
The answer was neoliberalism and soft power. Trump had annihilated the financial systems that held that fragile order in place.
#Venezuela will probably end up trying to teach Trump the lesson everyone else learned in the 20th century, but since he's incapable of learning it may very well teach him the lesson Afghanistan taught the USSR.
We'll see how it goes.
It's still possible that we could end up with the US interfering so much that the only people left able to defend space are anarchists. South and Central America actually has some really interesting and advanced anarchist tendencies, so fucking with that could absolutely blow up in Trump (and every other authoritarian's) face.
I hope that the Venezuelan people can take advantage of the situation to get rid of both a shitty dictator and the shitty colonizers who want to replace him.

Venezuela, a thread 🧵:
It is simultaneously true that the US has never cared about international law *and* that the current action is egregiously bad, even for us. The first point is self-obviously true - not only from the general POV (Iraq and Afghanistan are perhaps my generation's most obvious examples) but from LatAm's POV as well (look up the list of coups and covert operations in North and South America over the last 70 years).
1/?

Ich frage mich, ob der #Afghane, der (bereits?) in Afghanistan mit der #CIA zusammengearbeitet hat und jetzt in Washington Nationalgardisten erschoss, nicht irgendwie instruiert wurde, so etwas zu tun... ich finde, die Geschichte passt zu gut zum Narrativ von

"I'd love President Trump to come and see me," she says.
"I'd soon tell him how it is being an Army wife and an Army mother, and what it is to lose a child in those circumstances, something that he knows nothing about."
I'd love for him to go meet her too. He could meet a mother from every NATO country that he has insulted and betrayed with his idiotic, ignorant and disgustingly narcissistic remarks.
This is how century-long friendships and alliances are destroyed.
Americans: don't say sorry. Say, "I'm going to change this”.
#CanPoli #NATO #Afghanistan #UK #Scotland
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cdxjjwjvkkzt

Trump Admin Tries to ‘Bribe’ Afghan Allies to ‘Accept Death’ in Afghanistan
https://zeteo.com/p/trump-admin-tries-to-bribe-afghan

Danish veterans of US wars feel betrayed by Trump's threats against Greenland (Anders Kongshaug/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/denmark-veterans-greenland-us-afghanistan-3a2ddb39ad5404550fff6e375fc84933
http://www.memeorandum.com/260121/p47#a260121p47

Echo's uit Irak en Afghanistan? De interventie in Venezuela wordt anders
#Trump #Venezuela #MonroeDoctrine

Prince Harry says sacrifices by Nato troops in Afghanistan deserve 'respect' after Trump comments (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cdxjjwjvkkzt
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p65#a260123p65


The day after Democrats swept this month’s voting, a group of jubilant Democratic congressional candidates gathered on Capitol Hill to listen to Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colorado) explain how they could triumph in next year’s midterm elections, too.

Crow, dressed in jeans, boots and an open-necked shirt, urged them to campaign next year as if they were running for mayor:
Be local, be authentic, don’t listen too much to campaign consultants, he argued,
and be ready to separate f…

This rising House Democrat is a voice for the angry middle
Why I’m keeping an eye on the political trajectory of Jason Crow, a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Deets on #CIA’s early 2000's era #covert ops #Aggro mission that began modifying #poppy seed properties in 2004 and dropped them by the billions from ai…

Inside the CIA’s secret mission to sabotage Afghanistan’s opium
In a decade-long operation, the CIA modified poppy seeds and dropped them by the billions from aircraft over Afghanistan in an attempt to weaken the potency of the country’s opium crop.

Kristi Noem blames Biden Afghanistan 'abandonment' for National Guard shooting: Full interview (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/kristi-noem-blames-biden-afghanistan-abandonment-for-national-guard-shooting-full-interview-253308485652
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p29#a251130p29

Five years ago, they risked their lives to support American troops in Afghanistan.
Now refugees across the United States are facing the threat of certain death thanks to ICE.
Some 100,000 Afghans resettled in America, repayment for assisting the U.S. government during a fruitless 20-year war, after Kabul fell to the Taliban in August 2021.
Thousands of them have since found a new home in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
But in the wake of the shooting of two National Guard…

Trump Is Ready to Send Afghan Refugees to Their Death
ICE is detaining Afghan refugees in the wake of the National Guard shooting. Those in the Dallas-Fort Worth area fear for their lives, in both their new home and their old one.

The Trump administration will expand its ban on travel for citizens of certain countries
to more than 30 nations, said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem,
in the latest restriction to come since a man from Afghanistan was accused of shooting two National Guard members.
The expansion would build on a travel ban already announced in June by the Republican administration,
which barred travel to the U.S. for citizens from 12 countries and restricted access to the U.S.…

Presidents have always sent people to lead the Pentagon who respect the institutions and personnel of the armed forces,
not least because Americans tend to bristle at any sign that an administration does not unreservedly support the men and women of the U.S. military.
(Just ask Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, both of whom were castigated for such supposed disrespect.)
In his first term, Donald Trump sent General James Mattis, a veteran of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,
…

Pete Hegseth Needs to Go—Now
A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon.