WASHINGTON DC – As Washingtonians were preparing to leave their offices early on Wednesday ahead of Thanksgiving, in the immediate vicinity of the White House shock, fear and pandemonium became the backdrop for America’s biggest holiday of the year.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan legal immigrant to the United States, now stands accused of opening fire on two members of the National Guard . Critically injured, they were gunned down on a street corner so close to the White House that Secret Service officers were among those who immediately responded at the scene.

On Thursday, the country learned that the alleged shooter had engaged in an apparently targeted attack, and that he had worked with CIA-backed military units in Afghanistan during America’s war there. He was given cl

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