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--> }} An attack took place on January 25, 1993, outside the premises of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headquarters in Langley, Virginia where two CIA employees were killed and three others wounded. The perpetrator, Mir Qazi (also spelled as ''Kasi'' or ''Kansi''), shot CIA employees in their cars as they were waiting at a stoplight. He reportedly got angry watching news reports of attacks on Muslims and stated his motive was that he was "angry with the policy of the U.S. government in the Middle East, particularly toward the Palestinian people". Kasi 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 task force in Pakistan in 1997 and rendered back to the United States to stand trial. He admitted that he shot the victims of the attack, and was subsequently found guilty of capital and first-degree murder, and was executed by lethal injection in 2002. == Background == (詳細はQuetta, Pakistan, either on February 10, 1964 or January 1, 1967. He entered the United States 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.〔Stein, J. "(Convicted assassin: 'I wanted to shoot the CIA director' )", ''Salon'', January 22, 1998.〕 He stayed with a Kashmiri friend, Zahed Mir,〔Davis, P. & Glod, M. "(CIA Shooter Kansi, Harbinger of Terror, Set to Die Tonight )", ''The Washington Post'', November 14, 2002.〕 in his Reston, Virginia apartment, and invested in a courier firm for which he also worked as a driver.〔Justice A. Christian Compton, (Virginia Supreme Court Opinion on Mir Aimal Kansi ), November 6, 1998.〕 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 () mostly people who work for CIA."〔 According to Kasi, his first thoughts of an attack came after the purchase of a Chinese-made AK-47 from a Chantilly gun store. The plan soon became "more important than any other thing to ()."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1993 shootings at CIA Headquarters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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