The aftermath of the November 26, 2025, shooting in Washington, D.C. has underscored yet again that we live in a white supremacist world where people of color are target practice for racist leaders, and where the actions of one are enough to incur collective punishment against all.

As Emran Feroz laid out in his recent Truthout op-ed , abundant evidence suggests that the suspected shooter, an Afghan asylee named Rahmanullah Lakanwal , was shaped by serious trauma-related post-traumatic stress disorder following his years of service on behalf of U.S. empire, and that he was trained as a boy to commit violence as part of the “CIA’s own paramilitary forces in Afghanistan: the Zero Units.” The CIA-backed militia has been linked to war crimes in Khost, Kandahar, and elsewhere.

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