Accusation of an Afghan citizen of a terrorist attack near the White House/The United States is the main factor in creating and spreading terrorism in Afghanistan and the region

Afghan Voice Agency (AVA) - News Analysis and Research Service: Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and National Security Advisor to the former Afghan government, published a text on his X-Page, pointing out the main responsibility for last Wednesday's attack near the White House to the forty-year-old policies of the United States.

 

On Wednesday, November 26, 2025, Rahmanullah Laknawal, a 29-year-old Afghan citizen with a US green card, got out of his car near the White House at around 14:45 local time, took out a handgun and shot at two members of the National Guard who were on patrol. Jacob Alexander, 34, was killed and Kayla Martinez, 27, was seriously injured. Lucknowal was arrested after being shot 11 times by the US Secret Service.

 

Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta, the former Afghan Foreign Minister and National Security Advisor, responded to this news by quoting only a few short sentences on his X-Page and asked:

 

"Rahmanullah Lucknowal joined the CIA's special forces thirteen years ago when he was sixteen. He was a member of the dreaded Gzhdam unit. He was involved in the killing of Afghans. He worked with them at Kabul airport until the last days of the Americans' withdrawal from Kabul and left Afghanistan with them in September. Yesterday, he carried out a terrorist act and wounded two members of the US National Guard. This terrible crime is condemned, but is the Afghan people to blame or are those who taught him to kill since he was a teenager?"

 

Dr. Spanta's brief question opened a window into four decades of US terrorism-fueled policy in the region, which security and political experts describe as follows:

 

The Root of Everything in the 1980s and Operation Cyclone

 

From 1979 to 1989, the Carter and Reagan administrations funneled more than $3 billion in cash, Stinger missiles, training, and weapons to jihadi-Salafi groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Declassified CIA documents show that Washington knowingly strengthened the most extremist currents among the mujahideen. The same money and training later became al-Qaeda. The militia units under direct CIA control during the 2001–2021 occupation (such as the Gzhdam Unit, Unit 01, and the Campaign Unit) were precisely a continuation of the same forty-year project: recruiting 15–16-year-olds from poor villages, training them in assassinations, night operations, and torture.

 

Pakistan is an operator, not a decision-maker

From the 1980s to the present, the Pakistani army and ISI have never had an independent policy on terrorism. In the 1980s, all American money and weapons were distributed through Islamabad. After 2001, the US provided Pakistan with $1-3 billion in military aid annually, while knowing that al-Qaeda was safe in the tribal areas. Numerous reports by the Pentagon and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have confirmed this. Even today, US-Pakistani intelligence cooperation continues in the transfer of ISIS fighters from Syria to Afghanistan.

 

ISIS-K’s deliberate reinforcement after the 2021 withdrawal

From spring 2022 to autumn 2025, at least 800-1,200 foreign ISIS fighters (mainly from Syrian Kurdish prisons) were transferred on charter flights from US bases in Qatar and the UAE to Islamabad and then to the border areas of Afghanistan. Independent UN reports, jihadist monitoring groups and even some Pakistani media outlets have documented the movement. The apparent goal: to pressure the Islamic Emirate, destabilize Afghanistan, create a pretext for a long-term US military-intelligence presence in the region and prevent Chinese and Russian influence.

 

Boomerang on the streets of Washington

Of the 90,000 people flown out of Kabul on US planes in August 2021, several hundred were former members of CIA-controlled militia units; people who had carried out years of night raids, massacres of civilians and torture, and who now live in American cities without any real screening.

 

Yesterday’s attack is not the first and, according to former CIA and FBI experts, it will not be the last. These people are the direct product of policies that the US began forty years ago, continued for twenty years and is now seeing the results on its own soil.

 

Dr. Spanta, in his short sentence, pointed to exactly this forty-year cycle: Someone who has been “taught in murder” since the age of 16 and then brought to the heart of America cannot simply be called “an Afghan immigrant”; he is a direct product of Washington’s policies.

 

So far, the White House has remained silent, and Donald Trump has called for the deportation of all evacuated Afghans.