Another Biden Border Catastrophe: Afghan “Ally” Shoots National Guard Troops in D.C., Yelling “Allahu Akbar” – And He Was Vetted!

Folks, here we go again. Just when you thought the Biden-Harris open-borders disaster couldn’t get any more deadly, an Afghan migrant who was fast-tracked into America under their chaotic 2021 evacuation shoots two young National Guard soldiers patrolling the streets of Washington, D.C. One is dead. The other is fighting for his life. And the suspect? He screamed “Allahu akbar!” while doing it.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, pleaded not guilty Tuesday – from his hospital bed, no less, where he’s recovering from wounds after police stopped his rampage just as he tried to reload.

He’s charged with assault with intent to kill while armed, possession of a firearm, possession of a firearm during a crime of violence, and murder. Bond denied – thank God for small miracles.The victims? Twenty-year-old Sarah Beckstrom of West Virginia, who tragically died the next day, and 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe, who remains in serious condition.

These kids had literally been sworn in less than 24 hours earlier. As U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro said:

“Both Beckstrom and Wolfe ‘were sworn in less than 24 hours before they were shot on the street in Washington.’”

Beckstrom even volunteered to work over Thanksgiving so her fellow soldiers could be with their families. Heartbreaking.

West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey said Wolfe “remains in serious condition,” but is showing signs of movement and awareness.

President Trump, during Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting, revealed he’d spoken directly with Wolfe’s parents:

“They said he didn’t have a chance,” Trump recalled. “I will tell you, the one who said he is going to live is his mother … ‘Sir, he is going to live.’ I spoke to her very soon after this horrible event took place with this scum that is able to come into our country.”

“I spoke to his mother, ‘Sir, he’s going to be okay. I’m telling you.’ No doctor thought that. Nobody thought that. He was hit bad places. She was so positive, it was incredible. And possibly right. … That would be amazing. If he lives, it would be amazing, a miracle, actually.”

Pray for that young man. Pray for both families.

Now here’s the part that should infuriate every American: Lakanwal was brought here in 2021 under Biden’s infamous “Operation Allies Welcome” – the same frantic airlift that dumped roughly 77,000 Afghans into the country with what even DHS now admits was laughably inadequate vetting.

He got asylum in April. Why? Because, we’re told, he supposedly worked with U.S. entities in Afghanistan – including, according to former CIA Director John Ratcliffe, the agency itself.So the same administration that left billions in equipment and Americans behind in Kabul turned around and flew in tens of thousands of people – and at least one of them just murdered an American soldier on our own soil while shouting the jihadist war cry.

The Trump administration has already responded by halting asylum decisions and stopping new Afghan visas. About time someone slammed the door shut.

This is what happens when you treat national security like a giant welcome wagon. Sarah Beckstrom is never coming home. Andrew Wolfe is clinging to life. And the people who created this preventable nightmare still won’t admit they were wrong.Never forget: they called it “Operation Allies Welcome.”

One of those “allies” just declared war on America – again.

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National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom has died and still the Left uses her death politically

West Virginia National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom has died from being shot near the White House by an unvetted Afghan national. She was only 20-years-old and had her whole life ahead of her.

One is almost lost for words when contemplating the sheer grimness of this story, yet it is precisely the sort of story that reveals the fatal conjunction of sentimentality and incompetence that has come to define the Western elite in our time, particularly with the Biden administration.

On Thanksgiving Day itself, as millions of Americans sat down to give thanks for the blessings of family and freedom, President Trump was obliged to announce the death of  Sarah Beckstrom, who had been shot the previous day while on duty near the White House.

"I must unfortunately tell you that just seconds before I went on right now, I heard that Sarah Beckstrom of West Virginia, one of the Guardsmen that we’re talking about — highly respected, young, magnificent person — started service in 2023, outstanding in every way, she’s just passed away," President Trump said, his voice heavy with the knowledge that a young life had been snuffed out for the apparent sake of jihad, as it was reported that the shooter yelled "Allahu akbar," or 'Allah is greater.'

"She's no longer with us, she's looking down on us right now,” Trump continued. "Her parents are with her. This just happened. She was savagely attacked, she's dead, not with us. Incredible person. Outstanding in every single way, in every department. Just horrible."

When President Trump gets this hyperbolic, you can imagine he is truly feeling the loss of this young woman.

Only hours earlier her father, Gary Beckstrom, had spoken the words no parent should ever have to utter: "I’m holding her hand right now," he said. "She has a mortal wound. It's not going to be a recovery."

Sarah had, of course, volunteered to stand duty over the Thanksgiving holiday precisely so that her comrades might spend the day with their own families. A small act of selflessness, one might have thought, in a country that still pretends to honor such things.

And what do we find at the end of this chain of events? The alleged shooter, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, is a 29-year-old Afghan national, who arrived in the United States in 2021 under the auspices of Joe Biden's much-vaunted "Operation Allies Welcome," a program that, in its boundless generosity, managed to import some 77,000 Afghans into America with what can only be described as minimal scrutiny.

The consequences of such reckless virtue-signalling are no longer theoretical. They have names. They have grieving parents. They have a 20-year-old girl who will never again sit at a Thanksgiving table.

As Attorney General Pam Bondi observed: "She volunteered, as did many of those guardsmen and women, so other people could be home with their families. Yet, now, their families are in hospital rooms with them while they are fighting for their lives."

And Jeanine Pirro, the United States Attorney for D.C., added with understandable bitterness: "They answered the call, they took the charge, they volunteered, they put their lives on the line for people they don’t even know, and that unfortunately is becoming a reality more and more for the members of law enforcement."

One hardly needs to spell out the lesson here, though it is a lesson that certain quarters remain determined never to learn. When a society decides that the most important thing is to appear compassionate, when it confuses open borders with moral superiority, and vetting with xenophobia, then sooner or later it will pay the price in the most excruciating currency of all: the blood of its own daughters.

Sarah Beckstrom gave her life so that others might enjoy a holiday. The very least her country can do now is to ask, without apology and without euphemism, how it came to be that the man accused of taking it was ever allowed on American soil in the first place.

And finally, how can people on the Left, simply due to their hatred of Trump and half of America, use this horrific act of what appears to be Islamic jihad, to attack conservatives.

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Ex-FBI agent reveals Afghan vetting screwups: "Ticking time bomb"

 Rahmanullah Lakanwal,

Listen, folks, if you ever needed a neon-lit, flaming-red billboard screaming "Biden’s Afghanistan bug-out was an unmitigated disaster," here it is, gift-wrapped with a bow made of National Guard blood.

Two West Virginia Guard members are fighting for their lives after getting ambushed just blocks from the White House by some guy named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who somehow waltzed into America courtesy of Joe Biden’s "Operation Allies Welcome." You remember that one, the humanitarian clusterfrack where we airlifted tens of thousands of Afghans out of Kabul, slapped a participation trophies on them, and called it "vetting."

Former FBI Special Agent Nicole Parker, who actually worked the mess on the ground, just dropped the mic on Fox News Digital:

'They said it is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode because we've just allowed all of these people into our country… Initially, it was a free-for-all and no one was being vetted… Many times it felt like anyone was allowed to come into the United States from Afghanistan, regardless of who they were… What happened to our National Guard service members is a direct result of their lack of vetting… America is full of people we do not know. We don't know who they are, where they are, or what sleeper cells are here."

Free-for-all. Ticking time bomb. Sleeper cells. Merry freakin’ Christmas, America.

Parker says FBI agents and DoD contractors flagged people who absolutely should not have come here, only to watch the Biden State Department override them like it was a game of diplomatic Red Rover. "There were individuals that were not being recommended to come to the United States, yet they were being overridden by the Biden State Department," she said.

The DHS Inspector General basically wrote a 50-page "We told you so," documenting rushed "lily pad" staging bases, missing records, and vetting so sloppy it makes TSA look like the Mossad. A separate Pentagon IG report found at least 50 evacuees with "potentially serious security concerns" got waved through anyway, and officials lost track of dozens more who pinged the terror watchlist bingo card.

Even U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro (yes, that Jeanine Pirro) unloaded: "This is what happens in this country when people who are not properly vetted are let in."

And newly minted FBI Director Kash Patel said: "This individual is in this country for one reason and one reason alone, because of the disastrous withdrawal from the Biden administration and the failure to vet in any way, shape or form this individual and countless others."

Remember when Alejandro Mayorkas, with a straight face, swore up and down that "well over 99 percent" of evacuees were properly screened? Yeah, about that, when Lindsey Graham reminded him he was under oath and asked if he could guarantee no terrorists slipped through, Mayorkas mumbled, "No. No, I can’t speak to that."

Of course he can't. Because the directive straight from the top was "fill the planes, ask questions never." Senator Josh Hawley uncovered an August 2021 email literally telling officials to "err on the side of excess" and let people board even if their paperwork was, shall we say, creatively incomplete.

So here we are: two American heroes in critical condition, a suspected Afghan shooter who drove cross-country with his wife and five kids to allegedly play jihad near 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and a vetting process that was apparently run by the same people who designed Healthcare.gov.

Thank goodness there's a new sheriff in town.

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Another Day, Another "Misunderstander" of the Religion of Peace

Folks, here we go again.

Two West Virginia National Guard troops—deployed to the nation’s capital to help keep order—are now fighting for their lives after a targeted ambush just blocks from the White House. The alleged shooter: Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national who arrived in the United States in September 2021 during the Biden administration’s chaotic withdrawal from Kabul.

And yes, witnesses say he was screaming “ALLAHU AKBAR!” as he opened fire.

Here’s the chilling play-by-play, per law-enforcement sources cited by the New York Post:

“According to sources, Lakanwal waited for the Guardsmen to turn a corner, opened fire, shot a female Guardsman in the chest, then allegedly took her firearm and shot her point-blank in the head before firing at others. Another Guardsman was hit in the neck before a third managed to take him down.”

The FBI and D.C. police are investigating this as a “possible act of terrorism.” Metropolitan Police executive assistant chief Jeffrey Carroll described it bluntly: “It appears to be a lone gunman that raised a firearm and ambushed these members of the National Guard.”

For months, progressive politicians and activists have been screeching that sending the National Guard into Democrat-run cities constitutes “authoritarianism” and an “invasion” of the streets. Funny how that rhetoric sounds a little different when the troops themselves become the targets.

And then there’s the inevitable question that the legacy media will do everything in their power to memory-hole: How is it that so many “misunderstanders” of Islam keep misunderstanding it in exactly the same murderous way?

We’re told—endlessly—that Islam is a “religion of peace,” yet a shocking percentage of global terror attacks continue to be carried out by individuals shouting the same Arabic phrase before they start shooting, stabbing, or blowing themselves up. At what point does the “tiny minority of extremists” excuse collapse under its own weight?

President Trump, not mincing words, immediately called for a full reinvestigation of every Afghan refugee admitted under the Biden-Harris evacuation:

“WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has called for a reinvestigation of all Afghan refugees admitted under the Biden administration following a Wednesday shooting near the White House that critically injured two West Virginia National Guard members in what D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser described as a targeted attack.”

Good. Start vetting. Actually vetting this time.

Early reports from West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey briefly—and terrifyingly—suggested both troops had died, but he later clarified:

“We are now receiving conflicting reports about the condition of our two Guard members and will provide additional updates once we receive more complete information. Our prayers are with these brave service members, their families, and the entire Guard community.”

Prayers indeed. These men and women put on the uniform to protect us. The very least we can do is demand honest answers about who we’re letting in—and why the same deadly pattern keeps repeating itself while politicians and the press pretend it’s just one giant coincidence.Enough with the platitudes. This isn’t “senseless violence.” When the perpetrator screams “Allahu Akbar” before executing a cold-blooded ambush on American soil, the sense is tragically, infuriatingly clear.

Time to face reality instead of reciting the same tired “religion of peace” talking points while our troops bleed two blocks from the White House.

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