page_title: CIA headquarters shooting
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: CIA headquarters shooting / Background
caption_attribution_description: English: Description in English Wikipedia: "FBI photo of Mir Aimal Kasi, taken shortly after he was taken into federal custody in 1997 after an international manhunt. Uploading for use in the article "1993 CIA shootings". This image has been downloaded from the page http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?entity=mir_aimal_kasi_1, where it is credited "FBI". It is no longer available on the FBI website, presumably as it is over 10 years old. Other uses of the image found through a Google Image Search reproduce this photo uncredited, so there is no reason to distrust the credit given on the cooperativeresearch site, which appears otherwise reliable. The circumstances of his capture also preclude the photo having been taken by a non-FBI source."
context_page_description: On January 25, 1993, outside the United States Central Intelligence Agency headquarters campus in Langley, Virginia, Pakistani national Mir Qazi killed two CIA employees in their cars as they were waiting at a stoplight and wounded three others.
  Qazi fled the country and was placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, sparking a four-year international manhunt. He was captured by a joint FBI-CIA/ISI task force in Pakistan in 1997 and rendered to the US to stand trial. He admitted shooting the victims, was found guilty of capital and first-degree murder, and was executed by lethal injection in 2002.
context_section_description: Mir Qazi (or Mir Aimal Kasi) was born in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan, either on February 10, 1964, or January 1, 1967. He entered the US in 1991, taking a substantial sum of cash he had inherited on the death of his father in 1989. He travelled on forged papers he had purchased in Karachi, Pakistan, altering his last name to "Kansi", and later bought a fake green card in Miami. He stayed with a Kashmiri friend, Zahed Mir, in his Reston, Virginia, apartment, and invested in a courier firm for which he also worked as a driver. This work would be decisive in his choice of target: "I used to pass this area almost every day and knew these two left-turning lanes [were] mostly people who work for CIA."
  According to Qazi, he first thought of attacking CIA personnel after buying a Chinese-made AK-47 from a Chantilly gun store. The plan soon became "more important than any other thing to [him]."
caption: Mir Qazi, shortly after his capture in 1997
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