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Inside American Dream life of alleged DC National Guard terrorist — as neighbors reveal dramatic FBI raid
NY Post ^ | Nov. 27, 2025, 5:02 p.m. ET | Jared Downing and Anna Young

Posted on 11/27/2025 2:41:47 PM PST by conservative98

BELLINGHAM, Washington — The Afghan terrorist accused of shooting two National Guard troops had been living a seemingly quiet family life in a $2,000-a-month apartment in this idyllic Washington state town – where neighbors said the FBI busted into his home during a Wednesday raid.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, was often seen playing Call of Duty and FIFA inside the bare apartment, which he shared with his hijab-wearing wife and his five kids, stunned neighbors in Bellingham told The Post on Thursday.

Neighbors said the refugees — who arrived in 2021 after the chaotic US pullout from Afghanistan — had no beds, and there were only “some couch cushions they would sleep on” inside the sparse apartment.

They “never made a peep,” one neighbor said, adding that Lakanwal didn’t speak much English and his oldest child is 14.

“Bellingham is very liberal,” the neighbor said, noting the area, which housed Afghan evacuees following the botched withdrawal, was “Very welcoming. Very diverse. Very open.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: bellingham; biden; callofduty; islamists; nationalguard; terrorist; videogames

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1 posted on 11/27/2025 2:41:47 PM PST by conservative98
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neighbors said the FBI busted into his home during a Wednesday raid

How rude.

It's not like he's a President with First Lady and son there.

2 posted on 11/27/2025 2:45:30 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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“Bellingham is very liberal. Very welcoming. Very diverse. Very open.”

These are dangerously stupid people.


3 posted on 11/27/2025 2:45:45 PM PST by conservative98
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no English. no job. playing video games: you can’t buy friendship or loyalty with welfare. You will wind up with resentment, envy, hate and violence.


4 posted on 11/27/2025 2:49:55 PM PST by Redmen4ever
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To: conservative98

Heads up their rectums. Yes.


5 posted on 11/27/2025 2:50:02 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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In my city a postal carrier told me about the apartment dwellers who suddenly left near here.
He said he had turned them in to the government for having so many names living at one apartment.

He said they barely escaped when someone must have tipped them off at the post office or FBI. All gone. Hours before the raid.
The apartment had 9 men in their 20s living there, all undocumented from Central America, with no furniture except nine mattresses jammed together in the kitchen and living room.

My renewed driver’s license was “lost” in the mail the week before and I had to get a new one in person. I was told this happened to other people at the same time.

Letter carrier told me the illegals rent one apartment to get a US legal address for them all, then do identity theft or mail fraud to legally have mail delivered to that address, then leave to new place.

This was 2017.


6 posted on 11/27/2025 2:53:01 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Neighbors said the refugees — who arrived in 2021 after the chaotic US pullout from Afghanistan — had no beds, and there were only “some couch cushions they would sleep on” inside the sparse apartment.


As are most ME muslims furnish their abodes, according to Islamic law and tradition.


7 posted on 11/27/2025 3:07:03 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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There is a mosque in Bellingham, Washington, which I am sure he attended along with all the other five-time-a-dayers. Hijabis not welcome!

https://www.isofwc.org/


8 posted on 11/27/2025 3:07:10 PM PST by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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“We will use their tolerance against them.” Valarie Jarrett


9 posted on 11/27/2025 3:11:49 PM PST by georgia peach (georgia peach)
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“Didn’t speak much English”. First thing I’d look for in a translator.


10 posted on 11/27/2025 3:24:22 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
Heads up their rectums. Yes.

Also known as

Rectal Cranial Inversion

11 posted on 11/27/2025 3:27:12 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try )
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5 kids and the SOB flies out to DC to do what he did. Before he is excecuted I wish his whole family gets sent to Afghanistan. Make it clear to any other Jihad jerk that such actions will hurt the spread of their evil religion.


12 posted on 11/27/2025 3:33:45 PM PST by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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“”””They “never made a peep,” one neighbor said, adding that Lakanwal didn’t speak much English and his oldest child is 14””””


WOW. He doesn’t speak much English and he was supposedly helping the USA in Afghanistan.

Something does not add up here.

Now having a 14 year old son does make sense. That would mean he impregnated his sweetheart when he was 14.


13 posted on 11/27/2025 3:37:31 PM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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Just reported that the female NG who was shot has died.


14 posted on 11/27/2025 3:39:06 PM PST by vivenne (7Come to think of it. Fact)
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“”””“Bellingham is very liberal,” the neighbor said, noting the area, which housed Afghan evacuees following the botched withdrawal, was “Very welcoming. Very diverse. Very open.””””


My home state is Washington and Bellingham was well known to have such open minded people living there that the brains of those open minded people had fallen out.


15 posted on 11/27/2025 3:40:10 PM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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MISSING from this story is——

Where was the dude employed????

Why do I suspect the dude, the wife, and 5 kids were living on government handouts?


16 posted on 11/27/2025 3:45:48 PM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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Refuge = refuse = rubbish = garbage = sewage = toxic waste


17 posted on 11/27/2025 3:47:28 PM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: vivenne

Oh no.

😢


18 posted on 11/27/2025 3:52:07 PM PST by Salamander ( Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRDa)
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“Bellingham is very liberal,” the neighbor said, noting the area, which housed Afghan evacuees following the botched withdrawal, was “Very welcoming. Very diverse. Very open.”

Idiots.

L


19 posted on 11/27/2025 3:53:43 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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I know. I feel so bad for the family.


20 posted on 11/27/2025 3:54:17 PM PST by vivenne (7Come to think of it. Fact)
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