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This is what the secretary of conflict needed to say in response to yesterday’s assault.

The Department of Homeland Security has taken an Afghan nationwide into custody over yesterday’s taking pictures, with the suspect since recognized as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old who has been dwelling in Washington state since 2021 and had no identified felony historical past previous to yesterday’s incident.

He is known to have entered the U.S. underneath Operation Allies Welcome, a Biden-era program to resettle 1000’s of Afghans who assisted the U.S. through the conflict in Afghanistan and feared reprisals from Taliban forces as soon as they retook management of their homeland after the American withdrawal 4 years in the past.

However, as we noticed earlier, CNN is reporting that Lakanwal submitted a brand new asylum software in December 2024 that was granted by the Trump administration in April this 12 months.

NBC News has in the meantime reported that he served within the Afghan military for 10 years, served alongside U.S. Special Forces and was stationed in Kandahar for a part of that point.

The shooter seems to have acted alone, officers have mentioned, and the FBI’s joint terrorism job drive is at the moment investigating what drove him to open hearth in what officers known as an “ambush” assault on Thanksgiving eve.

Here’s Rachel Dobkin and Alex Croft with every thing we find out about Wednesday’s occasions.

Gov. Patrick Morrisey initially introduced on X yesterday that the 2 Guardsmen shot in D.C. had died of their accidents, earlier than subsequently issuing a follow-up put up saying he had obtained “conflicting reports” about their wellbeing.

This is the final we heard from him, talking to Charlie Hurt on Fox News.

Here’s some extra official response to Wednesday’s assault from Kristi Noem, FBI Director Kash Patel, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and others.

This is the announcement posted by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in a single day declaring that it’s halting the processing of all asylum requests from Afghan nationals “indefinitely” and “effective immediately” in response to yesterday’s atrocity.

Alex Croft has this report.

The president was understandably upset final evening however veered off into an Islamophobic assault on Somali Muslims in Minnesota, accusing the group of “ripping off our country and ripping apart that once great state,” which is neither true nor related to Wednesday’s incident in Washington.

While Trump and Vice President JD Vance have been fast in charge Biden for permitting suspect Rahmanullah Lakanwal to return to America underneath Operation Allies Welcome following the united statesmilitary’s withdrawal from his homeland, his asylum software was truly authorized by the Trump administration in April this 12 months, in line with CNN.

That essential element is reportedly going unmentioned on Fox News, in line with this avid viewer of the conservative cable information channel.

The president was not on the White House yesterday as he had already returned dwelling to his Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida, for Thanksgiving.

He reacted angrily to the assault, nonetheless, posting this message on Truth Social in response:

“The animal that shot the two National Guardsmen, with both being critically wounded, and now in two separate hospitals, is also severely wounded, but regardless, will pay a very steep price. God bless our Great National Guard, and all of our Military and Law Enforcement. These are truly Great People. I, as President of the United States, and everyone associated with the Office of the Presidency, am with you!”

The president subsequently delivered a televised assertion from his dwelling at 9.15pm by which he known as the incident “an act of terror” and a “crime against humanity” and blamed the suspect’s presence within the nation in his predecessor Joe Biden, including that every one Afghan nationals’ asylum claims would now be positioned underneath instant evaluate:

One of the National Guardsmen shot in Washington, D.C., Wednesday has been named as Andrew Wolfe in a tribute put up on his outdated West Virginia highschool’s Facebook web page.

Wolfe and a colleague stay in a essential situation after yesterday’s assault and he’s present process surgical procedure, the college states, promising additional updates.