We didn’t listen to Churchill
By James Zumwalt
Two West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot just before Thanksgiving Day (allegedly) by an Afghan terrorist immigrant. While one has died and the other remains in critical condition, the question remains why they were shot. The answer may well have been given to us 126 years earlier by a young Winston Churchill.
Before 3:00 pm on November 26th, three Guard members were on foot patrol, blocks away from the White House. Suddenly, without warning, the suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, jumped from behind a corner. Armed with a revolver, he first began shooting at Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20.
Beckman had no chance to react. Shot in the head, she immediately fell to the ground. Even as she lay helpless, Lakanwal continued pumping rounds into her, before he then shot at the second Guardsman, Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe, 24. Wolfe had tried to take cover but was shot in the head as well before he could do so. Bystanders scattered as the third Guardsman fired at Lakanwal, wounding the suspect. Hearing the gun shots, other Guardsmen rushed to the scene to hold Lakanwal down.
There should be no doubt Lakanwal’s intent was to kill as many Guardsmen as he could. That is why he fired head shots at both. This was clearly a planned ambush.
Lakanwal had come to the U.S. in 2021 under Operation Allies Welcome. Having previously worked with a CIA-supported paramilitary unit in Afghanistan known as “Zero Units”, he was allowed to immigrate to the U.S. after the Taliban rose to power (again). He was vetted by the previous administration, through a non-government organization known as “World Relief’ which seemingly, received most of its funding through USAID. However, such vetting may have been greatly limited in a rush to get our “allies” out of the country. Over 76,000 Afghans were brought into the U.S. in this manner.
According to a “childhood friend” of Lakanwal, he was “disturbed” and jaded after working with the CIA; then there’s this, from Jeff Childers at Coffee and Covid:
A long, dramatic 2022 Propublica article about the Zero Units cited its fighters saying they saw Americans as infidels, never trusted us, but worked with us as a lesser evil or a useful path to a ‘new Afghanistan.’
Like the Quran states about non-Muslims, Zero Unit members unequivocally agreed that Americans were infidels. This alone should have given us major concerns about them coming to our country.
We are told by Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, “it’s too soon to say” what the suspect’s motives were. However, a quote from “The River War” (1881-1899)—a book written 126 years ago by Winston Churchill who had fought against Muslims in the Sudan in 1899—gives us a good indication as to what may have triggered Lakanwal’s murderous act.