Terrorist attack on the CIA headquarters on January 25, 1993 in Langley

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Coordinates: 38 ° 56 ′ 47 "  N , 77 ° 9 ′ 32"  W.

The terrorist attack on the CIA headquarters in Langley on January 25, 1993 was carried out by Mir Qazi ( Urdu مير أيمال كانسي) who murdered two employees of the secret service with an assault rifle and injured three others in the immediate vicinity of the office.

Sequence of the firearm attack

On January 25, 1993, about 10 minutes before 8:00 a.m., Mir Qazi took his vehicle to the street that leads to the headquarters of the CIA and opened fire on the cars in the two left lanes with his AK-47 assault rifle waited at the red traffic light .

He killed the two CIA employees Lansing Bennett (66) and Frank Liebling (28) immediately. Three other CIA employees, Nicholas Starr, Calvin Morgan and Stephen Williams, were injured. Qazi then fled.

In his attack he uses an assault rifle that he bought on site. After shooting at several cars, he drove off calmly and returned to his apartment, packed his things and flew back to his family in Quetta , Pakistan, who smuggled him across the border into Afghanistan .

motive

A fellow student of Qazi said that Qazi had political motives for expressing anger at the United States for its policies towards Muslims in Bosnia , Chechnya and the Middle East .

Investigation, Trial and Execution

Authorities did not identify Qazi as the shooter until a few days later after his roommate reported him missing to local police. The FBI then placed him on the Most Wanted Criminal List , while the State Department offered a $ 2 million reward for his capture, which was later increased to 3.5 million.

In the next four years, however, Qazis could not be captured at first.

When Qazi later visited friends in Pakistan, the CIA lured him to a meeting in Punjab on June 15, 1997 , where he was arrested and taken to the United States .

The Justice Department ruled that the local authorities in Fairfax County should take over the murder charges because the 1997 federal law did not yet provide for the death penalty for acts of terrorism. Qazi, who pleaded not guilty, received the death penalty and was executed by lethal injection on November 14, 2002 .

His last words were "There is no God but Allah." ("There is no God except Allah").

Others

In May 2002, a memorial to Frank Liebling and Lansing Bennett was set up near the site of the attack.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Mir Aimal Kasi Executed November 14, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Virginia , as of January 2016.
  2. ↑ Family of Pakistani In Killings at CIA Also Seeks a Motive , as of January 2016.