The Zero Unit Ghost: How a CIA-Backed Fighter Slipped Into America and Ended Up at the Center of the D.C. National Guard Shooting

A fact-driven reconstruction of Rahmanullah Lakanwal’s past inside the CIA’s Zero Unit system, his evacuation to the United States, and the verified history behind the mission that shaped him.

Morning readers.

Here is what we know and what the record confirms.

On the morning of the attack near Farragut West, two National Guard soldiers were ambushed. One of them, Sarah Beckstrom, later died.…