The suspected Afghan terrorist accused of gunning down two National Guard troops just blocks from the White House struggled for years with the violence he committed as part of a CIA-backed “Zero Unit” force in his home country, according to a longtime friend.

“When he saw blood, bodies, and the wounded, he could not tolerate it,” said a childhood friend of 29-year-old Rahmanullah Lakanwal.

“It put a lot of pressure on his mind,” the friend told the New York Times.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal struggled for years with the violence he committed as part of a CIA-backed “Zero Unit” force in his home country. REUTERS

Lakanwal, a father of five, spent time serving with a CIA-associated “Zero Unit” toward the end of the decades-long war in Afghanistan – a paramilitary outfit that used locals to

See Full Page