The C.I.A. and an Afghan intelligence official said that the shooter had been part of an Afghan “partner force,” known as a Zero Unit, trained and supported by the agency in the southern province of Kandahar.
The C.I.A. and an Afghan intelligence official said that the shooter had been part of an Afghan “partner force,” known as a Zero Unit, trained and supported by the agency in the southern province of Kandahar.
“Contracted to sow chaos”, meaning to do relatively little damage, but raise local tensions. Which is exactly what a false flag operation is intended to do. It’s a motivator for policy change, not an actual terror attack.
If it was genuine terrorism, he wouldn’t have gone 3/4 of the way across the country, “for maximum political impact”…and then only bring a handgun. It’s a complete contradiction between intent and execution.
As much as I appreciate your armchair terrorism PhD, the most likely answer is that he had severe PTSD from his participation in a CIA death squad, where he killed his own people in Afghanistan, including children.
How many American veterans have come back with PTSD and lashed out with gun violence?
Is it possible he was reactivated, or coerced, by a nefarious actor to achieve said bad actors political aims?
Sure, but you’re making a lot of conclusions based on little to no evidence, and flatly ignoring or dismissing other more likely explanations.
By all means float the possibility that this is part of some conspiracy, but don’t pretend that you have definitive evidence that gives you just cause for excluding all other possibilities, especially the possibilities that already fit into the existing American cycle of foreign wars and domestic gun violence.
For example, what if one of his friends or family members were recently deported? Or if he was enraged that after betraying his native homeland, he saw America under Trump descending into fascism and decided to lash out by shooting American military members inside America’s Capital?
You’re hung up on his choice pistol, but how close do you think he could have gotten to his targets with a long gun in the streets of DC? How long could he have walked in DC with an AR-15 slung over his back?
Or what if he couldn’t afford a long gun? Or had other issues purchasing one?
There are many more reasonable explanations for this situation then your comments would lead people to believe, which is my point.
I will say this in your defense of your theory, he is such a terrible choice for a false flag operation, as evidenced by the immediate New York Times article about his CIA background, that it would fit my preconception of just how incompetent a Trump administration false flag attack would be.
I still think it’s one of the lesser likely possibilities, but again, I’m not dismissing that it is possible, just that there are other more likely explanations.