{"id":37976,"date":"2025-12-03T10:39:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/?p=37976"},"modified":"2025-12-03T10:39:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:09:21","slug":"rahmanullah-denied-the-accusation-of-attacking-us-national-guard-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/37976\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahmanullah denied the accusation of attacking US National Guard forces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Rahmanullah Lakanwal denied the accusation of attacking US National Guard forces in the first court session, which he attended online from the hospital.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On November 26th , an armed assailant opened fire on National Guard forces near the White House. Two security personnel were injured in the incident, one of whom, 20-year-old Sarah Backstrom, later died in the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US government accused Rahmanullah of carrying out this attack. He faces four counts of charges, including first-degree murder and armed assault with intent to kill. According to official court documents, the suspect shouted &#8216;Allahu Akbar&#8217; while shooting Sarah Backstrom and Andrew Wolfe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The judge ordered that Rahmanullah be held without the possibility of bail. The judge stated during the session at the Washington D.C. Superior Court: &#8216;It is abundantly clear that he traveled 3,000 miles (4,827 kilometers), equipped and with a specific purpose, to come here.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rahmanullah&#8217;s lawyer requested his release, pointing to his client&#8217;s lack of a criminal record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laknewal attended the court session online wearing a hospital gown and struggled to keep his eyes open for about half an hour. The court proceedings were translated for him by an interpreter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laknewal was transferred to the United States in September 2021 under the &#8216;Operation Allies Welcome&#8217; program framework. He was previously a member of Unit &#8217;03&#8217; in Afghanistan, which was supported and equipped by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the attack on the US National Guard forces, the country&#8217;s immigration policies were tightened.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rahmanullah Lakanwal denied the accusation of attacking US National Guard forces in the first court session, which he attended online from the hospital. On November 26th , an armed assailant opened fire on National Guard forces near the White House. Two security personnel were injured in the incident, one of whom, 20-year-old Sarah Backstrom, later [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":37977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,54],"tags":[5779,1238,5782,2335,5719,5706,5781,5756,5783,2321,5780],"class_list":["post-37976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-refugees","tag-afghan","tag-afghanistan","tag-cia","tag-deeyar","tag-deeyar-television","tag-deeyar-tv","tag-department-state","tag-refugees","tag-sarah-backstrom","tag-usa","tag-white-house-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37978,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37976\/revisions\/37978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}