Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org. I'm Ian Masters,

and today we'll examine a number of stories and issues in the news. We'll begin

with the Trump administration's racist focus on the Afghan shooter of two National Guard soldiers

in Washington, D.C., one of whom has died, prompting his call to deport all immigrants from the

third world. We'll investigate the CIA-run kill or capture zero units the shooter work with in

Afghanistan and speak with someone who's covered the U.S. war in Afghanistan from its outset

after 9-11, Robert Young Pelton, an author, filmmaker, journalist, and explorer. He is the

publisher of Dangerous magazine and has had a firsthand perspective on the war on terror

from direct contact with the world's most infamous jihadi, rebel and insurgent groups.

His books include the world's most dangerous places, come back alive, three worlds gone mad,

licensed to kill, hired guns in the war on terror, and his autobiography, The Adventurist.

He is working on a documentary about Jared Kushner's secret deals ahead of the Abraham Accords,

which lined his pockets, and has a podcast at YouTube, Come Back Alive.

Then, as Trump blames Biden for the tragic shooting in D.C.

Without taking any responsibility for sending troops there as a political stunt without any mission clarity or strategy, short of inflaming a situation in the hope of a violent outcome.

We will look into who is responsible for the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan that brought the shooter and 76,000

Afghan refugees to the U.S. joining us is Christine Fair, who was a professor in the security

studies program within Georgetown University's Edmundne-Waugh School of Foreign Service.

She previously served as a political officer with the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan in Kabul

and is the author of Fighting to the End, the Pakistan Army's Way of War, and in their own words,

understanding Lashka-I-Tiber, and she speaks and reads Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi.

Then finally we'll assess the multiple and confusing Trump teams of negotiators

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