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No further criminal action taken by gunman.
A friend will divulge necessary info to apprehend him.
049
This incident
is associated with the Persian Gulf.
079
The rifle leads to the killer.
He
may
have
money
to
help
him
travel.
May
be
paid
by
terrorists.
072
Gunman wore a brown military-type jacket.
Drove a brown/yellow station wagon.
Also drove a small white truck
(for work)
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By Patricia Davis and Bill Miller
Washington Post Staff Writers
Bryant, special agent
in charge of
Neighboi
the FBI’s Washington Metropolitan
gal irmnign.
EjfiM Offirp
J
<saiH at a nw.ic mnfor.
gnhtt- hving^^estpjj^as charged
yesterday
with
capital murder
in
the Jan. 25 shootings outside the
CIA’s Langley headquarters and an
international manhunt is underway,
law enforcement officials said,
euce at Fait fax County police head-
quarters. “Mr. Kansi will be put on
the FBI’s top 10 list.”
Officials said they have not yet
determined a motive for the shoot-
ings.^
^
q
-ngrri j
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Thewarrant chargingf^S^^f^by Kansi and are still searching for
as
issued
shortly^ter f a_^ the|dull''brovra
‘?*wa® resembling a Toyota Corolla
or Ford Escort, that witnesses de-
scribed as the vehicle used by the
suspect.
Neighbors
at
the fl|iurel Glade
apartment complex,
in
the 12000
block of Laurel Glade Court, where
Kansi lived said yesterday that they
believe he drove an afh-colored sta-
tion wagon.
’yesterday and
firearms ex
perts concluded that it had fired the
casings found at the scene of the
Shootings.
Two
CIA
employees
were
killed and
three other men
were wounded.
"There’s
a
worldwide manhunt
being launched at this time,” Robert
JiTu
Ghias
Ahrr|
from Kansi.
Because
was
killed
shootings,
with capitall
penalty uprj
the electric
Fairfax
(
ney Robert
attended th
there dsMo
isly
crime'
in
Kansi apped
Horan sai
this countn
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ig
last
month's
charged
Kansi
sr. The maximum
fiction
is death in
mwealth’s
Attor-
iran Jr., who also
conference, said
h^^S^th'^any
luntry.gtibr? does
tve ever been in a
Kansi has lived in
ainly a couple of
years” and
that
police have been
told Kansi attended college in Pak-
istan and is known to speak English
well.
There
was
rfc^ evidence
that
'memj)(Br- of any radical
gr^-apheih^^ever been em-
0k>jPHb7tt^lA,'he said. Bryant,
the FBI special agent, said there is
no
indication
that
Kansi
had
any
affiliation with any terrorist group.
Fairfax County Police Chief Mi-
chael W. Young said Kansi appears
to have been operating alone
but,
he said, "there’s a lot more work to
do."
Authorities
followed
several
paths to the suspect. First, accord-
ing to
police, Kansi was reported
missing three days after the shoot-
ings.
He had not been seen since the
day
of
the
shootings. Thenj
four
days ago, police received a tip fro.rtf
K^Ps|rdommate,#lso
Pakistani,
wfio allowed
police^ to search
his
apartment.
At
the same
time,
federal
la w
enforcement officials were studying
gun
purchases. They knew
froim
past experience
in such cases, in-
cluding John Hinckley's attempted
assassination of President Reagain,
that
killers
often
purchase
thetir
weapons
within a
relatively
shoirt
time of their crimes.
Officials of the federal Bureau <of
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms de-
cided to check purchases of assaudt
weapons in the Washington area iin
the last year.
From the markings made by tHie
gun’s firing pin on the shell casings
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nimm.
wm.
MIR AIMAL KANSI
*
.
. charged with capital murder
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AK-47 ASSAULT RIFLE
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n AK-47 assault rifle has been recovered by police, who say it
is the likely weapon used to kill two men and wound three
others outside the CIA two weeks ago.
Preston
PKWY.
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types of
50 ATF
735 gun
and
Me
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dealers
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THE AK-47 is a compact weapon of Soviet origin.
It is supplied in two
versions, one with a rigid butt and one with a double-strut folding metal
butt-stock. The military version is fully automatic.
Capacity:
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'
^ 30 rounds
Length:
24.4/34.8* inches
Firing rate (semiautomatic):
40 rounds/minute
NOTE- The AK-47 and variations have been made in China (type 56), Finland (M60 and M62),
Germany (MPIK, MPIKS), Hungary, North Korea (type 58), Poland (PMK), Romania and Yugoslavia
(M70 and IM70A).
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thrillu »iasiawmasi swikennwnum
hunt Begins for Suspect in Shootings at
NGS, From A1
hooting scene, ballis-
new
it was one of 11
ms. Over three days,
ts checked records at
rs in Prince George’s
nery
counties,
plus
in Northern Virginia,
must
keep
records
lames of gun buyers,
i
description and
the
n purchased,
i
that
about 700
of
ad been sold by
the
last 12 months,
looking for a needle in
said one
source
in-
search, “but it was the
had.”
als
then
gave
those
lirfax
police. One
of
nsi’s, the name on the
ms report. He had le-
ed the gun for $800 at
orthern Virginia deal-
David Condon Guns
illy, three days before
slice knew Kansi lived
ley
checked
driver’s
;
hide registration rec-
firginia Department of
j
ies.
]
d that the height and
j
anzi’s license matched
on given by witnesses
ags.
to a source, they also
motor vehicle records
>wned a
small
station
the one
described by
,ed the missing persons
he tip information with
d Young, whose depart-
srseeing the
investiga-
iwner of the gun shop,
reached yesterday eve-
son who answered the
: store hung up on a re-
is on
the door
of the
e 14000 block
of Lee
;hway (Route
50),
said
d Military Firearms and
s” and “Please No Mud-
Racks
of
guns
were
visible
through
the
store’s
barred
win-
dows.
Along with lhfc-Norinco AK-47-
type rifle, policeround"cibthes that
fit
the
description
given
by
wit-
nesses, a source said.
Witnesses said the suspect was
wearing^.taniacket and airk'pants}
The source also said shards of glass
were found on the clothing.
Two men were killed and three
were
wounded
when
a
gunman
jumped from
a
car
swinging
the
high-powered rifle inches from their
windows as they were waiting at a
red light in front of the CIA’s Lang-
ley headquarters.
All of the victims were
in two
Vienna,
an
engineer.
Both
have
been released from Fairfax Hospi-
tal.
A third wounded person, Stephen
E. Williams, 48, of Fairfax, an em-
ployee
of AT&T, was
slightly
in-
jured. Darling’s wife, Judy, was in
the car with him at the time of the
shooting but was not injured.
Although both
of the men who
died
lived
in Reston, Horan
said,
PoKce
tion they had to Kansi.
Bennett’s
wife,
Inga
Wells-
Bennett, praised investigators yes-
terday.
“A lot of people have put in a lot
of hours,”
she
said. Tm amazed
they found something.”
Barrett and Jo Anne Burka, who
“We married the
missingpersons
report and the tip
information with
the gun”
Police Chief Michael W, Young
left-turn
lanes
that
lead
into
the
! agency's complex from eastbound
‘Dolley Madison Boulevard (Route
1 123)* The red light was about 500
feet from the gates of the 258-acre
CIA complex.
In the few moments
it took for
the suspect—described by police as
ajyhite male with a dark complex-
ion between 20 and 30 years
old,
145 to 165 pounds, with a medium
build and dark brown or black, me-
dium-length
hair—to
shoot
and
speed
away,
drivers
in
cars
and
buses ducked behind dashboards for
cover.
Killed were Lansing C. Bennett,
36, of Reston, a physician and
in-
telligence analyst for the CIA, and
7rank Darling, 28, also of Reston,
vho was assigned to tasks involving
overt
operations. The men
lived
sss thhn a half-mile apart.
Twd other CIA employees
seri-
usly injured were Nicholas Starr,
0,-of Oakton, an
intelligence an-
\m KJRriTt «•£! ranw/
1 *MrtVKTi
were at the
traffic light when the
shooting
happened
and
provided
police with a description that led to
the release of a composite drawing
of the gunman, said yesterday the
sight of Kansi’s photograph on tele-
vision frightened them.
“Looking
at
it,
psychologically,
sent a chill down my spine " Barrett
Burka said. “I can’t say I recognized
him, but certain things were familiar.
The fuzzy cheeks. The
smile. The
almost benign appearance of him. We
felt a certain amount of relief, and a
certain amount of anger,” he said.
Staff writers DeNeen L. Brown,
D’Vera Cohn, Robert O’Harrow Jr.
and Pierre Thomas contributed to
this report.
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ates in the case o/MirAimal Kansi, who police say killed tivo
fLM men and wounded three others outside the CIA’s Langley
headquarters:
Oct. 2, 1964: Kansi is born in the provincial capital of Quetta, Pakistan.
March 3, 1991: He enters the United States through John
F. Kennedy
international Airport in New York.
Feb. 3f 1992: Kansi applies for asylum
in the United States.
Feb. 12: The Immigration and Naturalization Service grants Kansi a one-
year work permit. Though
it was renewable, Kansi never applied for
renewal.
Ian. 16, 1993: Kansi buys a Beretta .25-caliber semiautomatic pistol, an
East German Makarov 9mm semiautomatic pistol and a Colt AR-15
.223-caliber assault rifle at David Condon Guns in Chantilly.
Jan. 22: Kansi buys a Chinese-made Norinco AK-47-type assault rifle
and ammunition at the Chantilly gun store, trading in the,AR-15.
Jan. 25: Five people are shot, two fatally, white sitting in cars at a traffic
light outside CIA headquarters in Langley.
Jan. 26: A man police believe was Kansi flew from Washington to
Pakistan
Jan. 28: Kansi's roommate, Zahed Mir, reports Kansi missing to Fairfax
police. Mir tells police he last saw Kansi on the day of the shootings
Jan. 30: Kansi calls Mir to say that he will not be returning to their
Reston apartment and that someone will come for his belongings.
Feb. 6: Mir again calls police and tells them he believes Kansi may have
been involved in the shootings. Mir’s was among about 2,500 tips
police received during the investigation.
Feb. 8: Police search the Reston apartment They find an AK-47-type
rifle and several other weapons. A jacket and pants fitting witnesses’
descriptions of what the gunman wore also are found. Shards of gfass
are on some of the clothes; car windows were shot out at the CIA.
Feb. 9: Authorities announce that ballistics tests show Kansi’s AK-47
rifle is the weapon used in the shootings and that Kansi has been
charged with capital murder.
Feb. 10: Manhunt spreads worldwide for Kansi.
Relebs
ings, particularly because he seemed
so
quiet
and
reserved.
“We're
shocked," he said. “You picture some
kind of animal of a person. This guy is
[apparently] the opposite."
Police
are
not
sure
how
long
Kansi
lived
in
Reston.
His room-
mate, Zahed Ahmed Mir, 39, who
reported Kansi missing three days
after the CIA shootings, has been
renting the apartment since Octo-
r i
rlAnAnHincT
search
warrant,
investigators found
an
Chinese-made
AK-47-style
rifle
under the couch in the apartment Mir
and Kansi shared. They also found a
suitcase loaded with
bullets and
magazines
for
the
assault
weapon,
the affidavit said.
Yesterday,
law
enforcement
offi-
cials still sought motives in the CIA
shootings,
focusing on
Kansi's
na-
tive province of Baluchistan, where
pressed by the federal government,
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SHOOTING, From A1
our leads as being eliminated at this
point.”
Sources said yesterday that the
fingerprints
will be most
useful
if
-hey are of sufficient quality to use
n a computer screening process,
if
:hey are indeed those of the gun-
nan and
if the gunman has been
trrested for a felony. The FBI has
>n
its computer only the
prints of
people
arrested
for
felonies.
Mil-
ions of others exist in paper
files,
vhich must be searched by hand.
The CIA has planned a memorial
:
service
at
its
headquarters
today
or Lansing H. Bennett, 66, of Res-
on,
a
physician
and
intelligence
nalyst, and Frank
Darling,
28, of
leston, who worked
in covert op-
erations.
Security
was
especially
ight
again
yesterday
at
all
en-
rances
to
the
complex,
a;d.
Bennett
and
Darling
were
in
j
heir cars at a stoplight on Dolley
dadison
Boulevard
(Route
123),
'reparing to turn into the CIA en-
rance, when the gunman suddenly
merged from a car and opened fire
hortly before 8 a.m. Monday. Two
ther
CIA
employees,
Nicholas
tarr, 60, and Calvin Morgan, 61,
fere wounded. They continued
to
how improvement at Fairfax Hos-
ital, where
their conditions were
pgraded yesterday to fair.
The
third injured man, Stephen
.
Williams, who was
treated
for
perficial
wounds
and
released
onday, works for a CIA contrac-
>r. All were stopped at the light.
Franklin said
police now believe
te gunman stopped
his car—de-
scribed
as
a
dark,
medium-sized
automobile—directly
behind
Ben-
2tt's Saab in one of the turn lanes,
fter the shooting, witnesses said,
5 maneuvered
the car past Ben-
tt's and con
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Fingerprints believed to be those
of the gunman who killed two men
and wounded
three others outside
the
CIA's
Langley
headquarters
Monday have been discovered on
one
of the
victim's cars and on a
shell
casing,
sources
close
to
the
investigation said yesterday.
Based on the size of shell casings
left at the scene of the bloody rush-
hour
incident,
investigators
also
have determined that the gun used
Monday was
one
of
a
few
basic
models
of the AK-47-type
assault
rifle. Each carries 10 to 30 rounds
of ammunition and
is
available
at
local gun stores.
investigators have been canvass-
ing
gun
stores
throughout
the
Washington area in hopes that Mon-
day's gunman had bought his weap-
on recently, police said.
Although many
hurdles
remain,
law enforcement sources
said
the
fingerprints,
if they match those in
FBI computer files, could provide a
major break leading them to a sus-
pect, or
could
at least help them
target or eliminate people who are
brought in for questioning.
Fairfax County
police Capt. Da-
vid
Franklin,
head
of
the
depart-
ment's
Major Crime
Division,
de-
clined
to discuss any findings yes-
terday. He said there has been no
“final analysis" of the evidence,
"We've
received
a
lot
of good
leads,” Franklin said at a news brief-
ing.
“All
of these
leads are
being
investigated.
I
personally
feel
that
we're making
progress,
but
it's a
slow and tedious process."
Franklin said that since the
inci-
dent,
police
have
received
more
than 400 calls with information on
the incident via a special 24-hour-
a-day phone
line
staffed by inves-
tigators.
"There are a lot of people we've
been given information
about," he
said. "I wouldn't characterize any of
See SHOOTING, AI2, Col,
details.
Police found at least seven shell
least one that yielded a fingerprint,
sources
said. Authorities
said
the
shell would have been touched as it
was being loaded into the gun’s clip.
It was
not
clear
last
night
from
which car the other fingerprint was
retrieved.
Depending on
their
quality,
the
prints can be entered into the FBI’s
computerized
fingerprint
laborato-
ry, which has prints from more than
25 million people arrested by fed-
eral, state and local police depart-
ments.
Leslie J. Wallace, a spokeswoman
:or
the
FBI,
said
the
bureau
al»u
maintains fingerprints of more than
million
other
people,
including
ill military personnel and other fed-
eral
employees, some
police,
and
vorkers
in
places
such
as
banks
hat must register prints under fed-
:ral law.
The
length
of time
it
takes
to
dentify
a
fingerprint
depends
;reatly on
its clarity. Wallace said,
dding, "Under
ideal
conditions,
it
an take two to three hours, but
it
ould take up to two to three days
r even longer."
FBI
specialists
in
computerized
ngerprinting were not available to
xplniri how
the
compute:*
Uv.-v;,
ngerprints.
But
other
specialists
hd the computer reads lines, loops
id other fingerprint features and
elects potential matches that then
mst be reviewed
visually by
lab-
atory analysts. The computer can
wiew millions of fingerprints and
ilect
candidates
in
seconds,
ne
private
consultant
said
that
'en partial prints or smudges,
al-
though
less
desirable,
can
be
en-
tnced and run through computers
a search for a match.
I
Law
enforcement
sources
said
^ dimensions of the shell casings
l them to believe that the gunman
obably used one of several
basic
ids
of
semiautomatic
military-
de firearms: an SKS, a gas-oper-
_-d rifle with 10 rounds, or a vari-
.
alon of the AK-47, the most widely
V1<
uled assault rifle in the world, such su
1 the AKM. Both the AK-47 and w<
b AKM
carry
30-round
maga-
a
riles.
Such
weapons
have
been ?
u4d in other recent multiple shoot-
.
inis across the nation.
lCi
Authorities
said
they
plan
to
S
,P
ow pictures
of the guns
to
wit-
th
sses in the CIA shooting in hopes
'V(
pinpointing
the
kind
of weapon
D001-9
GHT
Those who
track
cases
ot ma
violence said the choice of
fireari
suggested that Monday’s assault w
well planned and that the gunman h
a strong mission— possibly, one sai
a war with the CIA.
In addition,
t!
fact that bullets were
fired metho
ically into car windows,
rather
th;
sprayed
indiscriminately,
indicate
that he knew how
to use an assai
weapon, they said.
"Mass
murderers
are
looking
accomplish
a
goal," said James Ah
Fox', a criminologist from Northeas
ern
University. "The
goal
is
to
g
killed,
the
sweeter
the
reveng
Nothing
is more efficient than a
fir
JSTOOGl^
1^
a
semiautomati
He came prepared for battle."