By Yoichi Shimatsu
Exclusive to Rense
12-2-25

Intro: The proverbial chickens are coming home to roost, as the disastrous dirty losing war in Afghanistan spills over onto Washington D.C., amid this nation’s urgent program of deporting foreign-born criminals and questionable illegals – excluding the CIA murderous Afghan hit-men. The sidewalk shooting – a mere two city blocks from the White House - of National Guard members Sarah Beckstrom, age 20 (shot dead), and USAF airman Andrew Wolf, 25, (seriously wounded) was all the more shocking due to the Afghan refugee’s wartime record as a CIA-recruited assassin during the Bush-Cheney regime’s futile effort to exploit inter-tribal hostilities in that distant realm – with high hopes of gaining control over Central Asian oil-and-gas energy reserves. This past week, the sheer evil of old-style corporate-imperialist designs for control over the world’s natural resources backfired on distracted Americans with the stunning gunshot attack against courageous West Virginian National Guard troopers - just two blocks shy of the White House (which was the likelier target of assailant’s plan for mass assassination of staffers and the president himself). The CIA since its founding days in the struggle for Iran’s oil reserves has been clandestine not only in its dirty operations but also the underlying motives in service of Big Energy interests.

Had the Afghan madman under CIA mind-control achieved his greater aim of peppering the White House with gunfire that planned scenario could well have been the intended trigger for yet another American assault and occupation of remote Afghanistan. Instead the heinous plot blew up in the faces of the Central “Intelligence” Agency and it’s cast of clowns, misfits, opportunists and corporate lackeys – since and now dead-silent when stuck with explaining the awful bloody mess on a Washington D.C. sidewalk. That dubious “intelligence” agency, renowned for its repeated stupidity at foreign policy assessment, must be replaced ASAP by smarter talent with foreign-affairs experience in the real world.

As usual, the national media cowards and press lackeys have put on their blinders when confronted with the harsh reality of blowback from Washington’s failed imperial ambitions to steal the natural wealth of the Third World. Every significant so-called “terrorist” act depends on insiders opening the doorway to attack, now and way back then at the beginning point of this grim era of foreign intervention – starting with the discredited air-borne hijacks that triggered the World Trade Center chaos, the scary pretext for follow-up by the Bush-Cheney regime to launch a U.S,/UN military invasion of remote Afghanistan (after the failure of Jimmy Carter’s little Afghan war) - so faraway from the centers of world power and yet so rich in oil reserves from neighboring Uzbekistan.

But now, however, thanks to the pair of brave National Guard troopers, the blow-back of the CIA’s newest stage-show stands exposed, as more perceptive Americans (as opposed to news media hacks and village idiots) who realize that high-level conspiracies are not always based in fantasy but are aimed at pushing the so-called facts on the ground into another pro-war hysteria. Another Afghan War has been on the horizon in a wet dream from the CIA but two brave troopers from the mountain state of West Virginia slammed shut the gates on that treasonous plot hatched by cynical greed-driven elites and their compliant Democrat politicians. Thus, thanks to those two heroes, we’re not going back to “win the war in Afghanistan” in a yet another vain effort to extend the longest run of combat hostilities in U.S. history. Hey, Joe and Hunter - and Liz, how’re you feeling about now – depressed by that desperate sinking feeling? The harsh facts remain, that 2,459 American soldiers were killed in those two decades of intervention and 21,000 seriously wounded during the two decades of U.S. intervention. Untold numbers of Afghans – mostly civilians not involved in hostilities – were killed by a foreign power that had zero comprehension of the political and tribal dynamics of those remote highlands. When choosing to go to war, the lust of petroleum profits and mineral rights should never be the cause of a bloody invasion.

As First Reporter on the Ground post-911

This journalist has some basic knowledge about Afghanistan from being the only foreign reporter along the Pakistan-Afghan border during the three weeks before the 911 event and immediately afterwards as the initial guide for incoming international reporters, escorting the first wave of journalists to Peshawar (on the Afghan border) and introducing them - their knees knocking in dire fear - to high-level Taliban loyalists. I had zero problems dialoguing and tossing tough questions at those cheerful rowdies, who reminded me of rough-riding cowboys of my childhood years in the last remnant of the Wild West in the Indio Desert. Shooting back premium whiskey with me on the sly (in minor violation of their Islamic code) opened up for me a ground-level comprehension of the harsh terrain, the complex tribal dynamics and also a slew of covert photos of Taliban strongholds and tribal powwows.

As I walked among the excited crowds of young students who cheered the mullahs as their saviors from a lifetime of western imperialist drudgery and bullying, I realized their desire for national independence – to be free at last of western colonialist aggression - must have been similar to how the Yankees cheered on their War of Independence on the first Fourth of July or how the newly liberated French public celebrated the fall of Nazi Germany. The truth on the ground was: a greed-driven USA and its NATO lackeys were the actual source of nearly all the social ills and endemic poverty besetting an Afghan population beaten down by demented queer warlords, foreign mercenaries, Russian invaders and a UN economic blockade. As it turned out the poorly armed and sandal-footed Afghans fought and won the longest war in American history – despite all the high-powered weaponry deployed by the USA to crush the desire for national independence in the middle of nowhere – one of the poorest nations on Earth.

There was no credible justification for what we - meaning our benighted politicians and generals and CIA spooks – did by incessant aerial bombing, mass starvation as a tactic, nighttime raids and cruel torture of captive villagers. In historical fact, the American intervention in Afghanistan was infinity worse than anything that the Imperial British redcoats inflicted either against the Afghans or heaped on their rebellious American colony during the Revolutionary War - this nation’s Afghan-style trauma and brave glory. As put by the local mullahs: “Let the will of God decide!” That call for divine grace is something like our lyrics for “God Bless America – our home sweet home!” Bloodied but proud Afghan heroes eventually won that deadly contest and the despotic foreigners – American troopers, British spies, creepy merchants from India, Iranian rogues and UN hacks - were put to flight in a panic, so unprepared for the Fall of Kabul that they left behind the majority of their misguided and mercenary lackeys in a futile foot race along the fast-emptying runways. Instead the Biden admin allowed the U.S.-bound escape of the world’s worst war criminals, of the same ilk as the assassin Lakanwal Rahmanulla. As in the failed Korean intervention and the horrific Vietnam fiasco, American dabbling in crude imperialist domination ended in our national disgrace - for all the world to watch and ponder as a sick charade of all principles of genuine democracy.

The American Ninja

The craven national media have failed - again - to inform the American public of the salient facts behind the double shooting in the U.S. Capital. The perpetrator Rahmanulla was one among the Zero Force assassins (trained and run by the CIA with help from U.S. Army special forces) who were forced to evacuate with their immediate families immediately after the fall of Kabul to a resurgent Taliban offensive, which ended the 20-year U.S. intervention initiated by war criminals Bush and Cheney, by far longest war in American history. Some 10,000 CIA-vetted, trained and employed Afghan assassins and kidnappers – the dredges and gangland scum of Afghan society - were given permission by the numbskull Biden admin to depart their homeland for resettlement in the USA. Along with those hardened human-rights offenders came their immediate families - 70,000 Afghan women and children for resettlement in the United States. That’s far more numerous than the post-WWII resettled of Nazi Germany’s rocket expert Werner Von Braun and his corps of missile technicians. That mass movement was ordered by the CIA’s National Directorate of Security (NDC) - in one of this nation’s most bonehead decisions: to import ruthless assassins into an unsuspecting American society. Then again our nominal allies across South Asia - India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand and on down the list would have nothing to do with hosting a gang of mad-dog assassins, whose brains had been black-washed with the CIA’s witches-brew of mind-bending drugs and traumatic psy-op experiments. The trainers of this midnight assassin corps were CIA psy-ops advisors and newly hired Army vets assisted by the Seal Team 6 special-forces from the U.S. Navy – certainly not the kindest or friendliest people for public relations efforts affirming the social benefits of democracy.

Recruited at age 16, the young street thug Rahmanulla was apparently considered to be special for being a member of the Pashtun majority tribe, the ethnic group most loyal to the late Mullah Omar’s Taliban nationalists. Fluent in the Pashto dialect, he was a valuable asset for phone intercepts and thus sent for weapons training and intelligence procedures at the secret CIA training base in the Hindu Kush mountain range (in the far northeast) in the environs of Asadabad in the remote northeast borderland overshadowed by the Hindu Kush mountain range. After proving his loyalty during night-raids involving the kidnapping and torture of Taliban supporters from remote villages, Lakanwan was sent to Camp Chapman in Khost in the southeast near the Iranian border, a major center of popular support and recruitment for the Taliban. Due to the intensity of “training”, which included what can be deemed “brain-washing” involving memory suppression and immunity to pain and fear in case of capture by the enemy - and presumably training for acceptance of suicide during confinement, Ramanulla was deemed a top-level product of CIA training aka “mind control”. This sort of militaristic rigor at suppressing ethical qualms had been greatly “perfected” since the clumsy use of meth-amphetamines by the CIA in the Vietnam War, chemical aids for war-crime regrets discredited due to the Mylai massacre perpetrated by the notoriously brain-added Lieutenant Calley. I’ve always wondered what George Washington or Generals Grant and McArthur might have thought of those chemical control techniques.

Other details related to Rahmanulla’s grisly background of kidnapping, torture and elimination of inconvenient witnesses during the Obama-Biden terroristic Afghan intervention include: His unit assignment was at the start with Unit 01 (the first counter-guerrilla outfit) and later followed with transfer to NSU 03 based in Kandahar (across the border not far from Peshawar, Pakistan). In close reach of Af-Pak border – a convenient location for visiting higher-up officers and politicians) Rahamnulla was assigned to CIA-Special Qandahar (Kandahar) Strike Force QSF, rising to the rank of E-5 with the CIA ID number 5033. He was stationed at Firebase Gecko, a staging area near Kandahar) since 1979, amid some of the heaviest combat against the resurgent Taliban and its outland local civilian militias. Based on my findings, the Talibs (scholars) were rigorous in fidelity to their wives, whereas their northern tribal opponents were openly pedophile, treasuring sexual relations with young boy “dancers”. (Been there, seen it, and would not do it – quite disturbing indeed.) His longest term of military service was in Ghazni Province in the nation’s southeast, which is populated by Pashtun tribesmen loyal to the Taliban.

Flight to the USA

Following the post-haste Biden-ordered evacuation from the Afghan front in August 2021, Rahmanulla with immediate family – which included 5 children - was assigned to reside in Bellingham, Washington State (which is the site of a major U.S. Navy base and nuclear-submarine fleet). There, in isolation from his homeland, his mental condition steadily deteriorated, aided by his addiction to marijuana, booze and video games - as yesteryear’s hero and today’s unwanted social trash, habits unbecoming of Islamic believers. Thus in an effort to redeem himself from American degeneracy, the wannabe hit-man drove his Hyundai sedan across the US to the opposite Atlantic coast. The most plausible scenario in the nation’s capital is that Rahmanulla was unaware of the massive extent of National Guard deployment around the White House (which had not been publicized by the so-called “free press” news bureaus).

As he crossed the street by the Farragut West metro station, which is less than 3 blocks walking distance from the White House, Rahmanulla was apparently stunned by the immediate presence of two National Guard troops who accosted him and in instant panic opened fire. Other guardsmen wounded him with a single gunshot and pinned him down on the sidewalk. These scare details, and more incisively the shootout’s proximity to the White House, indicates that Rahmanulla’s planned target was no less than President Donald Trump, a kill that would have cemented his international career as a “top gun” assassin of a prize bull elephant this time instead of scampering gazelles in the backwoods of Afghanistan. Thank you much, officers of the CIA for training one of your crack assassins who got within 200 feet of the West Wing, nearly as effective an operation as that Day in Dallas.

So what now? So the obvious conclusion is that the CIA must be taken apart brick-by-brick, one agent at a time, to get to the bottom of this affair. To be replaced by an intel agency that files accurate daily reports to the White House and leading congressional leaders. The American public cannot exclude the grim possibility that the Afghan hit-man was merely following secret orders from the CIA, which has every reason to rid themselves of an annoying President and cover-up its nefarious murder spree in Afghanistan and adjoining Pashtun border regions of Pakistan and Iran. In comparison, the Nazis were gentlemen and thereby far easier to take apart (as told to me by my American intel soldier of a father who after the end of WWII was assigned as an interrogator with the U.S. 5th Army in Munich, Germany - Adolf Hitler’s home turf.) The CIA outlaws are far more secretive, vindictive and cruel than the Gestapo that my dad and fellow military intel personnel tracked down and punished for heinous crimes against humanity. Incredible as it may seem, American war crimes are far worse, starting with dropping two nuclear bombs on populous cities in Japan in order to see the outcome for civilian populations. The “scientific” casual cruelty of responsible American leaders has proven well beyond comparison of any fascist regime.

This time around there can be no letting the Central “Intelligence” Agency felons off the hook, for these sorts of rampaging thugs, cheats and liars disgracing the honorable record of America’s armed forces and decent servicemen. We must not permit monstrous sadists to run our foreign intelligence affairs - so this time at last, heads must roll by the dozens, hundreds and possibly even more war criminals who have disgraced the world’s preeminent defender of democracy and decency, that is if the USA hopes to continue being the standard bearer of law, compassion and fairness in a brutally cruel world. This is the defining moment for Americans to stand tall by admitting the truth about official misconduct and restoring the best of what this nation of hero’s stands for. We owe the two brave National Guard troopers for preventing the worst outcome in the nation’s capital. The loss of life of the 20-year old Sarah Beckstrom is most depressing yet her courage in combat at the gateway to the White House is beyond commendable – it was an act of unparalleled heroism – and for her unflinching courage she will forever be remembered as a true American heroine.