Armed attack near the White House identified author

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27 November 2025, 17:32(7 months ago)

Two members of the American Communist Guard, 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom and 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe, they're in critical condition after they were shot near the White House in Washington last night. The suspect in the attack is Rahmanullah Lacanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national who entered the US in 2021 after working with the American government, including the CIA, in Afghanistan. [...]

The suspect in the attack is Rahmanullah Lacanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national who entered the US in 2021 after working with the American government, including the CIA, in Afghanistan.

Lacanwalk was also injured in the incident and hospitalised.

US President Donald Trump has pledged that the suspect will pay the highest possible price “for this “akt terror”, reports BBC .

According to US prosecutor Pam Bond, the two wounded soldiers underwent surgery.

Prosecutor Jeanie Pirro confirmed that their situation is still critical.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe said the attackers were allowed to enter the US “due to his previous work with the US government”.

After Biden's catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Biden administration justified the behaviour of the suspected attacker to the United States in September 2021 due to his previous work with the American government, including the CIA, as a member of the partner force in Kandahar, which ended immediately after the chaotic evacuation”, Ratclife said.

FBI Director Kash Patel said a <x0 think tank is under way for an act of terrorism”.

The teams searched the last known residence of the suspect in the state of Washington and seized “multiple electronic equipment” currently under analysis.

We'll go anywhere in the world where evidence” takes us, Patel said.

Prosecutor Pirro said it was too early to say something about a motive.

There are definitely areas we are investigating, but we are not ready to go into detail. ”

Lacanwalk currently faces charges of deliberately assaulting murder, which carry a 15-year prison sentence.

Pirro stressed that the charges would improve in first degree killings if any of the soldiers changed their lives from their wounds.

“We pray that they will survive and that the highest charge is not murder of the first instance”, she said.

The incident has prompted a harsh political response.

Bond said he'd demand the death penalty for the armed person unless soldiers survive.

If anything happens, I'll tell you now and I'll tell you early, we'll do everything in our power to demand the death penalty against this monster that shouldn't have been in our country”, she said.