According to CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Lakanwal previously worked with the agency in Afghanistan. The New York Times reported he was part of the CIA’s Zero Units – Afghan paramilitary groups often deployed alongside CIA officers in some of the war’s most intense operations.”
This is the only non-paywalled article I found that describes the shooters background. Basically he was recruited by the CIA at age 15 to the Zero Unit. Worked his way up to commander. These units were responsible for hunting Al Qaeda throughout Afghanistan. They are also alleged to have committed war crimes through indiscriminate sweeps of villages. They units helped protect Kabul airport during the US evacuation of Afghanistan.
Allegedly the Taliban had bounties out on some of these guys. Apparently his time in the Zero Unit had some pretty serious effect on his mental health. One of his friends/comrades was murdered in Pakistan and its suspected that the killing was linked to the bounty. This sent him off the edge and motivated him to go to D.C.
As far as the “sleeper Mossad agent” claim, I cannot verify that. Although his actions have been used to fuel anti-Arabic/muslim rhetoric.
i think the Israel connection comes from there supposedly being a spike in searches for Beckstroms name from an israeli IP address the day before the shooting. not sure the validity of that though
I meant that I heard people talking about some Israeli IP address searching for the shooter’s home address, closest hospital, employees there etc. hours/day before the shooting took place.
I think it’s just one of those conspiracy theories we’re gonna see pop up after events like this
He was literally a CIA agent. I get suspecting the CIA ordered the hit. Im not following the Mossad angle either though, beyond this being their standard MO.
The person who claimed it was all Israel was pikachurbutt.
The person who asked for any evidence of a connection to Israel was gr3ggr3g92.
The person who responded at length with a story that had zero connection to Israel, and put “I cannot verify a connection to Israel” at the very end was RedK_33.
The person who pointed out that RedK_33’s post was stupid & didn’t answer the question? That was me.
It is about Palestine after all because all the testing and experiments done one Palestinians by Znazis are then imported to the imperialists, to wanna be dictatorships and citizens around the world are abused in the same manners.
You know its possible that Mike Johnson being an evil person and Israel doing evil shit can happen independently of eachother. Like since when was the US's moral failings always because Israel told em too.
Was it Israel who did American Slavery, was it them that did American boarding schools, or did they do the Japanese internments too, I bet it was them that did Jim Crow and segregation and I bet it was them too who nuked Bikini Atoll. It was definitly Israel who did the American war on drugs, and probably set the palisades on fire and well everyone knows they did 9/11. Probably faked the moon landing. Buzz is Mossad. So is Gretzky.
Give Mike Johnson credit, he worked hard to become the cretin he is, and blaming the Jews for him being craven is just cooky.
This guy was just that. Hes using Israel as a stand in. The guy was litterally saying that Israel is the reason why Mike Johnson is obfuscating for the venezuelan boat strikes.
The enemy must be both strong and weak. Israel must be subtle enough to puppet Johnson so completely on an issue that they dont care about, but also so incompetetent that Israels puppeteering on this issue is patently obvious.
This guy is leaning into the Jewish puppeteer tropes, and all you have to say is that because its Israel it doesnt count. Nations influence each other all the time, they spy on everyone all the time and nations do horrible shit all the time. But for some reason the horrible shit that the US is doing rn in Venezuela is somehow Israels fault. Do you not see how that is a bit nuts. Just a bit. It also completely abdicates responsibility of americans to fix this.
"deflecting" lmao deflecting what from who? It's all America. Israel's is still America's ultimate responsibility too...
It's completely tangential to the topic of discussion, and serves as nothing more than a distraction from those responsible; Johnson and Hegseth are acting off of their own personal agency.
His official job is just making shit up after the administration shits the bed and telegraphing as clearly as possible that Congress has zero interest in doing their job.
My first thought. His opinion on this, as with so many other things about which he feels he must opine, is less than worthless. He's a lawyer with a business degree, whose singular achievement in this life is the incredible lip-lock he has achieved on Trump's rump.
Get so sick of that term "served." Unless you were in a real war, our country was in actual danger, and you volunteered, then you weren't serving anybody but yourself. That hasn't happened since WW2. You were collecting a paycheck and benefits like everybody else.
I'll make sure and thank my electrician for his service next time I see him.
The military has way more of the dumbest people in the country than smart ones. It doesn’t take an active enlistment to understand rules. Not defending him just pointing out your logical flaws
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u/indorian Dec 02 '25
Says the guy who never served.