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FAIRFAX, Va: Mir Aimal Kansi, the Pakistani native accused of killing two CIA employees in 1993, was flown to the United States and taken into custody by U.S. officials last night. Kansi, who was captured over the weekend with the help of several Afghanis near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, was immediately flown by helicopter to the Fairfax County jail to await arraignment, expected to take place today. He faces charges on two counts of capital murder, three counts of assault and one count of illegal possession of a weapon. If convicted he could face the death penalty. Kansi allegedly killed...
...trail continues to span the breadth of the country, from the fundamentalist cells of Peshawar to the violence-riddled commercial capital of Karachi, where the U.S. State Department last week ordered the evacuation of all school-age children of American officials. U.S. agents are still hunting for Mir Aimal Kansi, wanted for the murders of two CIA officers in Langley, Virginia, two years ago. He is believed to be hiding in Baluchistan, another center of lawlessness...
...AUDACIOUS CRIME. ON JAN. 25, SOMEONE shot and killed two Central Intelligence Agency employees literally at the gate of the agency's headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Who was the shooter? What was the motive? A breakthrough occurred when the roommate of 28-year-old Mir Aimal Kansi reported him missing. Kansi's Reston, Virginia, apartment was searched, a Chinese-made AK-47 was found, and FBI firearms experts concluded that it was the gun that fired cartridge casings recovered at the crime scene. Kansi was charged with capital murder and placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. Police...
Perhaps in Pakistan. Kansi, a member of a wealthy Pakistani family, has reportedly been seen in his hometown of Quetta. "We're trying to confirm that he's there," says Fairfax County police department spokesperson Robert Wall. "Pakistani officials are cooperating in the fullest." Still, the question remains: If Kansi did commit the alleged crime, why? No explanation so far is satisfactory. Says Wall: "There are a million theories. They have to be % checked one at a time." Law-enforcement officials may have to catch the man to find the motive...