A suspect arrested for shooting National Guard soldiers in Washington, D.C. has been identified as an illegal alien from Afghanistan who entered the U.S. following Joe Biden’s disastrous military withdrawal in 2021.
Two West Virginia National Guardsmen on a high-visibility patrol in the nation’s capital were ambushed by a gunman in a “targeted attack” near the White House at around 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon.
The suspect, who was also seriously injured, was reportedly uncooperative with authorities, but law enforcement has revealed that he was one of tens of thousands of Afghan nationals brought into the U.S. under “Operation Allies Welcome.”
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Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, “entered the U.S. legally in 2021 under humanitarian parole as part of the Biden administration’s Operation Allies Welcome in the aftermath of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. His permission to be in the U.S. expired in September of this year, and he is now in the country illegally,” Fox News reports, citing multiple sources close to the investigation.
Lakanwal yelled “Allahu akbar” while discharging a revolver before another Guardsman stabbed him several times with a pocket knife, sources tell Julio Rosas.
Another Guardsman reportedly shot the suspect, as well.
🚨LE source in D.C. tells me the National Guardsmen shooting suspect is an Afghan national who used a revolver.
A National Guardsman, who was not armed with a firearm, used a pocket knife to stab the suspect. Another Guardsman responded to the gunfire and shot the suspect…
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) November 26, 2025
“There’s more: we [are] trying to confirm if the suspect, an Afghan national was an interpreter brought over by Biden, because he has a Department of Defense record. Again, we are trying to confirm. The suspect has a home address in Washington State,” top attorney Mike Davis stated on X.
From law-enforcement source:
Afghan National, born in 1996, armed with a revolver ambushed a female guardsman, shooting her in the head, and a male guardsman, shot multiple times. They never saw it coming. Both guardsmen were armed.
A Major in the National Guard, who was…
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) November 27, 2025
Federal authorities are reportedly treating the shooting as a potential international terrorist attack.
Both Guardsmen remain in critical condition, according to the latest available updates.
