LISTEN | Full interview with Kevin Maurer: As It Happens 7:25 Alleged National Guard shooter served in CIA-backed 'Zero Unit.' War reporter says that may have contributed

After learning more about Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the man accused of shooting two National Guard members in Washington, D.C. last week, Kevin Maurer says the news no longer surprises him.

While there’s still no clear motive for the shooting, authorities have learned that the 29-year-old Afghan national served in a “Zero Unit,” a CIA-backed Afghan paramilitary unit in Kandahar.

Maurer covered the “Zero Units” extensively as a reporter on the Afghanistan war beat for 17 years.

He says knowing what he does about life in those units — and an interview he had with an Afghan veteran who served alongside Lakanwal — l

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