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The Afghan man accused of shooting two members of the National Guard in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday had worked with C.I.A.-supported military units in Afghanistan, the agency said.

The suspect worked for multiple U.S. government agencies in Afghanistan, including a C.I.A.-backed unit in the southern province of Kandahar, a stronghold of the Taliban insurgency during the two-decade war there, the C.I.A. said. Officials identified the suspect as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29.

After American forces withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021 and gave way to Taliban rule, the suspect was brought to the United States as part of a program to evacuate Afghans who had worked with the agency, according to the C.I.A. director, John Ratcliffe.

Mr. Lakanwal’s affiliation with a C.I.A.-supported unit was earlier reported by Fox News Digital.

“In 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 C.I.A., as a member of a partner force in Kandahar, which ended shortly following the chaotic evacuation,” Mr. Ratcliffe said in a statement.

Mr. Ratcliffe said the alleged assailant “should have never been allowed to come here.”

The Afghan units trained and supported by the C.I.A. played an important role in the American evacuation. While many Afghan military units dissolved in the face of the Taliban takeover, the C.I.A.’s partner units remained operational and helped bring U.S. citizens and Afghans who had worked with American forces to Kabul to be evacuated out of the country.