The Central Intelligence Agency said Thursday that he worked with a CIA-backed military unit during the war in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the wake of the disastrous Biden Withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Biden Administration justified bringing the alleged shooter to the United States in September 2021 due to his prior work with the U.S. Government, including CIA, as a member of a partner force in Kandahar, which ended shortly following the chaotic evacuation,\u201d Director John Ratcliffe said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Lakanwal, who grew up in Khost province, was living in Bellingham, Washington, with his wife and five children, the relative said.<\/p>\n
The relative said he has not spoken to Lakanwal in several months. The last time they spoke, Lakanwal was working for Amazon and Amazon Flex.<\/p>\n
Amazon told NBC News that Lanakwal wasn\u2019t an employee of Amazon, but was an independent contractor for Amazon Flex and has not been active recently.<\/p>\n
Amazon Flex is a delivery service run by Amazon where people use their own vehicles to make deliveries as contract workers, similar to the arrangement Uber has with its drivers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what happened,\u201d the relative said, his voice cracking with emotion. He added: \u201cI need your help to know why this happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem<\/a> said on X that the suspect was \u201cone of the many unvetted, mass paroled into the United States under Operation Allies Welcome on September 8, 2021, under the Biden Administration.\u201d Operation Allies Welcome<\/a> was a Biden-era directive to support \u201cvulnerable Afghans\u201d and those who worked alongside U.S. forces in Afghanistan to safely resettle in the United States.<\/p>\n In remarks Wednesday, President Donald Trump said he is \u201cdetermined\u201d that the shooter \u201cpays the steepest possible price.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump said that the suspect was flown into the United States by the Biden administration in September 2021 and that his status was extended under Biden-era legislation. Trump then called for the re-examination of all those who entered the United States from Afghanistan during the Biden administration.<\/p>\n The suspect has been identified as an Afghan national who used a handgun, according to two senior U.S. law enforcement officials.<\/p>\n Shawn VanDiver, president of the San Diego-based group AfghanEvac, said in a statement that Afghan immigrants and wartime allies who resettle in the United States undergo extensive security vetting and that \u201cthis individual\u2019s isolated and violent act should not be used as an excuse to define or diminish an entire community.\u201d<\/p>\n Late Wednesday, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said processing of immigration requests related to Afghan nationals \u201cis stopped indefinitely<\/a> pending further review of security and vetting protocols.\u201d<\/p>\n
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