Mir Qazi

Mir Qazi
FBI photo of Mir Qazi
Born	10 February 1964 (or 1 January 1967) Quetta, Pakistan
Died	November 14, 2002 age 38 or 35 Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia, United States
Cause of death	Lethal injection
Nationality	Pakistani
Other names	Mir Aimal Kasi
Known for	Perpetrator of the 1993 shootings at CIA Headquarters
Criminal charge	Capital murder, first degree murder, malicious wounding
Criminal penalty	Capital Murder- Death by lethal injection First Degree Murder- Life Imprisonment 3 counts of Malicious Wounding- 60 Years Imprisonment
Criminal status	Executed

Capital Murder- Death by lethal injection

First Degree Murder- Life Imprisonment

Mir Qazi (Urdu: مير أيمال كانسي‎) was a Pakistani immigrant convicted of the 1993 shootings at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. In the incident, Kasi killed two CIA employees and wounded another three. He fled to Pakistan. He was later arrested by FBI and ISI forces, returned to the U.S. and tried. He was convicted and sentenced to death, and executed in 2002.

Kasi was born on either 10 February 1964 or 1 January 1967 in Quetta, Pakistan. He entered the United States in 1991 under the name Mir Aimal Kansi, 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 name to "Kansi", and later bought a fake green card in Miami, Florida.

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 Kasi, he first began to think 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]."