National Guard shooter has ties with accused Afghan ‘suicide bomber’

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00:00The Afghani National, accused of shooting two National Guard members in Washington, D.C.,

00:04killing one, had ties to a fellow countryman that I also told you about recently.

00:10Alleged Guard shooter Raminella Lackanwal worked supporting U.S. troops at a base near Kandahar,

00:16and it turns out so did Mohamed Dawood Al-Khazai. That name might sound familiar because he was

00:22just nabbed in Texas last week after posting a plan to blow up Americans with his vehicle

00:28and putting it on social media. Both men overlapped for years during their time working for the U.S.

00:33The Post was able to speak with a former Afghan army chief of staff who said that Al-Khazai was

00:39in a position in Afghanistan that would have given him access to attack U.S. troops, suggesting that

00:45he may have been radicalized after coming to the states. And he added that Al-Khazai, quote,

00:50needs more investigation, even more than Lackanwal. Now, Congressman Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey agreed,

00:56saying, quote, there is a clear responsibility to investigate whether these individuals shared

01:01any connections and to take every step to prevent another threat from slipping through the cracks.