By Harold Pease, Ph. D.
I’m tired of getting half-truth stories from Deep State press outlets. Sometimes out of country sources feel more credible. The accused National Guard’s assassin Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was not just “linked” to the CIA, he worked for them full-time for at least eight years, joining them at age 15, and may be influenced still at 29. Sources agree that he was with the US military and CIA-backed units as a Afghanistan national against the Taliban which returned to power with America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan August 2021, but it was more and needs emphasis.
The suspect was with “the Kandahar Strike Force or ’03’ unit, one of several ‘Zero Units’ that operated alongside U.S. and other foreign forces” during our 20 year war in Afghanistan. Those who helped America became the enemy of that state, the Taliban. “These units operated as Afghan intelligence and paramilitary forces, supporting US troops throughout the long campaign against the Taliban. Trained by American special operations personnel, they conducted high risk missions, including frequent night raids.” These killed other Afghans. The CIA was waist deep in all of it. These were seldom ethical. Nothing about the CIA is particularly ethical.
“Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused the units of carrying out extrajudicial killings, indiscriminate airstrikes, and multiple violations of international humanitarian law during the 2010s. Known for their covert operations, the units were described by diplomats as ‘death squads,’ according to HRW. Both the CIA and the US government have rejected these allegations.” (“‘Death Squad’ : DC Shooter Rahmanullah Lakanwal is linked to Afghanistan’s elite ‘Zero Unit’- What is it,” TimesofIndia.com, Nov. 30, 2025). Of course they would, but such clandestine “missions” were common during and since the 1961 Cuban Bay of Pigs invasion fiasco and CIA 1962 involvement in the assassinations of the ruling Diem brothers in Vietnam.
On March 26, 2025, LibertyUnderFire published “Unbelievably Most Presses Missed the Most Important JFK Assassination File Finding,” President Trump had just released 2,800 CIA secret documents known to exist but kept from the people for 62 years by previous administrations and through several JFK investigations, until all involved were unpunished and safely dead. The documents showed the Deep State CIA heavily involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Have we forgotten Trump’s released documents just last Spring? We also published “John F. Kennedy Assassination Files Revealed, A State Within a State.” That being the CIA which is at the very heart of the Deep State that Trump is presently fighting to have revealed and removed.
Continuing with Rahmanullah Lakanwal the D.C. National Guard Shooter, “Lieutenant General Sami Sadat, former commanding general of the Afghan national special operations Corps, said that Lakanwal served in the ’03’ unit for eight years. A former senior Afghan general under the US-backed government added that the ’03’ unit, also known as the Kandahar Strike Force (KSF), ‘was under the special forces director of NDS. They were the most active and professional forces, trained and equipped by the CIA. All their operations were conducted under the CIA command.” Sadat said Lakanwal was part of the units operations team. “He was known for being responsible and professional within his team and had strong anti-Taliban views, Sadat was quoted as saying by CBS news.” Consequently, “Lakanwal’s family faced serious threats from the Taliban, prompting him to move them from their native Khost province to Kabul, Sadat said. In the US, Sadat noted, Lakanwal “was generally calm and maintained a clean record, though he suffered from PTSD.
“As a member of a Zero Unit, Lakanwal would have been virtually guaranteed asylum in the US, as members of these elite forces were prime targets for Taliban retaliation after the group regained control. Many of these unit members also played crucial roles in the August 2021 evacuation from Kabul, securing guaranteed spots on flights out of Afghanistan for themselves and their families” (“‘Death Squad’ : DC Shooter Rahmanullah Lakanwal is linked to Afghanistan’s elite ‘Zero Unit’- What is it.,” TimesofIndia.com, Nov. 30, 2025).
As the Deep State has been revealed as the major threat to our Republic throughout the Biden administration and now, it has sought to accomplish two events that would erase their crimes, civil war and World War III. We have documented their intent to do this for the last four years. Trump and Putin have come together on a peace plan for Ukraine, a country that was overthrown in 2014 by the CIA and became a deep state country then. Even this is now known. There will be no world war III as they hoped. The only thing they have left to do is civil war. What if killing the guardsmen could escalate to civil war? What if this is a CIA opt for that purpose?
Consider the following, Lakanwal is a trained CIA killer. A few days before he executed National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, with reportedly two shots, one to her upper body another to her head, and shot Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24, Senator Elissa Slotkin put out her video calling for insurrection. Coincidence!?! Slotkin, formerly employed by the CIA and lead instigator with her five fellow Democrat members of Congress of the “Refuse Illegal Orders” insurrection video calling upon all members of the military and intelligence community to refuse to obey what she called unlawful orders from the president.
She posted, “It’s only a matter of time before things get worse. By my estimation, we are about two weeks away from a bloody incident that spirals out of control.” (X22 Reports, Ep. 3784b, Nov. 28, 2025,30:49). Did she know this? Was this the bloody incident that was supposed to spiral out of control starting civil war with the National Guard already there? Was she letting us know they were taking this to the next level? That they would start firing on the National Guard? They want civil war! They want a shootout! Now suddenly Democrats like guns? This will fail because the rest of America have no intention of firing on the National Guard. They are us.
If unsuccessful the Deep State press will treat Lakanwal as a lone crazy gunman, and looser, like CIA trained Lee Harvey Oswald. Any other narrative, they will argue, is just conspiracy talk.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist on current events. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column #849
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