Latest / FBI Files / CIA Headquarters Shooting Inside the International Manhunt for Mir Amal Kanzi
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- 0:04Speaker 1: On a highway in Northern Virginia, a brazen daytime shooting
- 0:08Speaker 1: of employees from the Central Intelligence Agency stunned the country.
- 0:13Speaker 2: The FBI would call in, but.
- 0:16Speaker 1: The nationwide search quickly became a far-reaching international manhunt. Agents
- 0:21Speaker 1: hoped that after years of investigation, the daring operation halfway
- 0:25Speaker 1: around the world would put an end to the global pursuit.
- 1:00Speaker 3: In Langley, Virginia, a terrorist fired into rush hour traffic.
- 1:05Speaker 3: The victim seemed randomly selected, but the motive appeared to
- 1:09Speaker 3: be political, targeting employees of the Central Intelligence Agency. I'm
- 1:14Speaker 3: Jim Kallstrom, former head of the FBI's New York office.
- 1:17Speaker 3: The FBI quickly became involved in the investigation, processing more
- 1:21Speaker 3: than 2,000 leads and crossing an ocean in the effort
- 1:26Speaker 3: to deliver justice.
- 1:35Speaker 1: Langley, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C., is home to
- 1:39Speaker 1: the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency. Monday, January 25th, 1993.
- 1:51Speaker 1: Another work week had started for thousands of CIA employees
- 1:54Speaker 1: who routinely commute to their jobs at America's Global Intelligence Agency.
- 2:02Speaker 1: Workers of varying security clearance and experience waited at the
- 2:05Speaker 1: long light to turn left into the CIA compound.
- 2:12Speaker 2: All were alone in their cars.
- 2:14Speaker 1: Except a young couple who had met at the CIA
- 2:16Speaker 1: and had recently been married. As newlyweds, they seemed to
- 2:22Speaker 1: have their entire life ahead of them. Then the young
- 2:26Speaker 1: man was struck from behind by a gunman's bullet. Two
- 2:30Speaker 1: employees behind the shooter.
- 2:31Speaker 2: Fled from their vehicles as the man walked forward. A
- 2:36Speaker 2: third employee sped off before he could fire. Two more
- 2:40Speaker 2: ran the red light as their cars were peppered by bullets.
- 2:47Speaker 1: Gun was then shot into a six-car, hitting the 61-year-old
- 2:50Speaker 1: man twice in point-blank range. Behind that car, the shooter
- 2:55Speaker 1: realized the first man he shot was still alive.
- 2:59Speaker 2: He aimed at the wounded man, but he stopped killing him,
- 3:01Speaker 2: but sparing his life. Only one other employee remained.
- 3:06Speaker 1: Frozen by fear, the 66-year-old was killed instantly by two
- 3:10Speaker 1: quick shots. After the young woman heard the killer speed off,
- 3:26Speaker 1: she ran for safety. Dozens of urgent 911 calls flooded
- 3:35Speaker 1: the switchboard in Fairfax County, Virginia.
- 3:40Speaker 2: All available units were ordered to respond.
- 3:45Speaker 1: Emergency personnel from several towns raced to save those that
- 3:49Speaker 1: clung to life. Fairfax County Detective Fred Fife is assigned
- 3:55Speaker 1: as lead detective.
- 3:56Speaker 4: One of the first steps was to make sure that
- 3:59Speaker 4: the scene itself was safe. We weren't sure what type
- 4:03Speaker 4: of individuals we may have been dealing with, so we
- 4:05Speaker 4: had to set up an armed security around the scene
- 4:08Speaker 4: to prevent a further attack.
- 4:12Speaker 1: Choppers searched for the fugitive from overhead. Several motorists reported
- 4:17Speaker 1: seeing him flee into the surrounding woods after he drove off.
- 4:24Speaker 1: The CIA immediately dispatched its tactical security forces to comb
- 4:28Speaker 1: the 250-acre compound in and around headquarters. An exhaustive search
- 4:36Speaker 1: turned up nothing. Authorities secured a three-mile radius and closed
- 4:44Speaker 1: busy Route 123 except for emergency personnel. At the crime scene,
- 4:51Speaker 1: police found two dead and three critically wounded. Four others
- 4:57Speaker 1: escaped unharmed, three of them women. FBI Special Agent Brad
- 5:04Speaker 1: Garrett arrived moments after the shootings.
- 5:07Speaker 5: The first thing you do when you walk into a
- 5:09Speaker 5: crime scene is, what's the obvious? Well, the obvious is
- 5:11Speaker 5: this appears to be directed towards the CIA. It might
- 5:15Speaker 5: be directed towards the individuals that were shot. But it
- 5:18Speaker 5: was clearly somebody wanted to make a public statement during
- 5:22Speaker 5: a rush hour traffic.
- 5:25Speaker 1: The victims were rushed to area hospitals as investigators began
- 5:28Speaker 1: to interview the survivors. Their first step was to alert
- 5:35Speaker 1: the public and area law enforcement to the description of
- 5:37Speaker 1: the fugitive in his vehicle. But most witnesses saw little,
- 5:43Speaker 1: and their accounts varied.
- 5:45Speaker 4: The witnesses stated that the suspect was a male, mostly
- 5:50Speaker 4: olive-complected type individual, armed with a rifle. And that was
- 5:56Speaker 4: pretty much the composite description we were able to put together.
- 6:02Speaker 4: Height varied considerably. The vehicle ranged from being a brown
- 6:06Speaker 4: station wagon to a blue truck. I think a lot
- 6:10Speaker 4: of the people were in a panic situation and were
- 6:14Speaker 4: shielding themselves from being victims.
- 6:19Speaker 2: One woman got a closer look than most.
- 6:24Speaker 1: She described the shooter as a man with dark hair
- 6:26Speaker 1: in his early 30s, wearing a tan jacket and dark pants.
- 6:33Speaker 1: though he had her in his sights.
- 6:34Speaker 2: For some reason, he chose not to shoot.
- 6:39Speaker 5: We looked at the individuals that were killed, and we said,
- 6:42Speaker 5: could there be a connection? Had they done something in
- 6:44Speaker 5: the past that someone could have wanted to take revenge
- 6:49Speaker 5: on them for whatever reason, whether it be personal or professional,
- 6:51Speaker 5: because you've got to look at this both ways.
- 6:54Speaker 1: The immediate crime scene covered an area of 50 square yards.
- 7:00Speaker 1: Glass and shell casings littered the roadway. Forensic technicians needed
- 7:07Speaker 1: to record every detail before the bodies of the two
- 7:10Speaker 1: slain victims could be removed from their cars, according to
- 7:13Speaker 1: Fairfax County crime scene detective Jeff Miller.
- 7:18Speaker 6: I have a duty to them, and my duty is
- 7:21Speaker 6: I have to be their voice. They've been murdered. Here's
- 7:26Speaker 6: this person who's silent forever, and somebody has to speak
- 7:29Speaker 6: up for them. And so that's the way I look
- 7:31Speaker 6: at it, is I'm their voice. And it's my job
- 7:35Speaker 6: to find whatever it is that's going to help us
- 7:38Speaker 6: find or identify the person who's responsible for this.
- 7:44Speaker 1: Crime scene investigators recovered 10 empty shell casings. They believe
- 7:50Speaker 1: they were likely fired from an AK-47. Towards the back
- 7:57Speaker 1: of the cars where the gunman began firing, Technicians also
- 8:00Speaker 1: recovered one live round.
- 8:01Speaker 6: Forensic evidence always tells the truth. It's never clouded by
- 8:09Speaker 6: someone's perception. It never lies to you. It's always telling
- 8:12Speaker 6: the truth. And it's my job to find it. All
- 8:15Speaker 6: I have to do is find it. And once I
- 8:17Speaker 6: find it and I'm able to examine it, it's going
- 8:19Speaker 6: to tell me exactly what happened.
- 8:22Speaker 1: The live round on the ground told investigators that the
- 8:25Speaker 1: weapon was a semi-automatic. and had most likely jammed before
- 8:29Speaker 1: the killer fired his first round. Noting the location of
- 8:37Speaker 1: the casings in relation to the shattered glass enabled the
- 8:40Speaker 1: team to determine the trajectories and order of the gunman's bullets.
- 8:48Speaker 1: Investigators also gathered glass samples from each of the vehicle's
- 8:52Speaker 1: broken windows They hoped the combination of several types of
- 8:57Speaker 1: glass found in the same location would prove significant.
- 9:02Speaker 6: They had a number of different cars. Each of the
- 9:05Speaker 6: cars was a different manufacturer. It had a German car,
- 9:07Speaker 6: it had an American car, it had a Swedish car.
- 9:09Speaker 6: The glass that's put in these cars is all different.
- 9:12Speaker 6: If some of this glass had spattered back on the shooter,
- 9:15Speaker 6: even though it was microscopic, someone who had these three
- 9:18Speaker 6: different kinds of glass on their clothing, that might be
- 9:21Speaker 6: probative of the investigations.
- 9:24Speaker 1: While investigators continued to gather evidence of the crime scene,
- 9:27Speaker 1: agents and detectives visited nearby hospitals to speak to the
- 9:30Speaker 1: remaining survivors. The young woman who had lost her husband
- 9:36Speaker 1: in the assault hadn't seen much since she hid below
- 9:39Speaker 1: the dashboard most of the time. She said that the
- 9:44Speaker 1: man could have shot her at any moment, but like
- 9:46Speaker 1: the previous female survivor, he turned away instead of fire.
- 9:52Speaker 1: She also told investigators that she and her husband normally
- 9:55Speaker 1: used a different entrance to drive into the CIA compound.
- 10:00Speaker 1: FBI agent Brad Garrett wondered who else might have known this.
- 10:05Speaker 5: We immediately started looking at who within the CIA, in
- 10:10Speaker 5: other words, disgruntled employees, present employees, that may have had
- 10:14Speaker 5: a relationship with these people that could have retaliated for
- 10:19Speaker 5: whatever reason. There's a lot of bizarre people that have
- 10:22Speaker 5: applied to work for the CIA, and they've rejected a
- 10:24Speaker 5: lot of people.
- 10:27Speaker 1: At the Fairfax County Command Center, the female witness who
- 10:30Speaker 1: had gotten the best look at the gunman worked with
- 10:33Speaker 1: a police sketch artist. Based on her description, investigators believed
- 10:39Speaker 1: the suspect was of Hispanic or Middle Eastern background. She
- 10:46Speaker 1: had not gotten as good a look at his vehicle,
- 10:48Speaker 1: but recalled that it was a station wagon, Investigators released
- 10:54Speaker 1: the drawings to the public hoping to elicit leads.
- 10:59Speaker 4: One of the first things we had to do was
- 11:01Speaker 4: to get out through the media that afternoon a phone
- 11:05Speaker 4: number or a system where the potential witnesses that had
- 11:09Speaker 4: been in that area that morning could contact us. And
- 11:13Speaker 4: we needed to isolate a phone number for that purpose
- 11:16Speaker 4: and get it out to the media as quickly as possible.
- 11:21Speaker 1: As calls poured in, agents and detectives were still grappling
- 11:24Speaker 1: to find a clear motive.
- 11:25Speaker 2: For the shooting.
- 11:29Speaker 1: If they could deduce a reason for the shooter's actions,
- 11:31Speaker 1: it would limit the potential suspect pool. Agents searched the
- 11:36Speaker 1: victim's backgrounds for possibilities as to why they may have
- 11:39Speaker 1: been targeted. He then walked up to this car and
- 11:42Speaker 1: fired one more shot.
- 11:43Speaker 4: Into car A.
- 11:45Speaker 5: Once we started looking at the backgrounds of the individuals
- 11:48Speaker 5: that were shot, and we looked at the circumstances as
- 11:51Speaker 5: to why they were at that intersection, it didn't appear,
- 11:53Speaker 5: at least to me, that there probably was a link
- 11:57Speaker 5: between them being shot, those particular individuals being shot, and
- 12:03Speaker 5: the person or persons that shot them.
- 12:08Speaker 1: Just eight hours after the shooting... Fairfax County Detective Jeff
- 12:12Speaker 1: Miller examined the cartridges recovered from the pavement at the
- 12:14Speaker 1: crime scene. He confirmed the shells were from an AK-47
- 12:21Speaker 1: assault rifle, a weapon used primarily by Russian and Chinese armies.
- 12:28Speaker 1: Upon closer inspection, Detective Miller discovered a latent fingerprint on
- 12:32Speaker 1: the shell.
- 12:35Speaker 6: The difficult part about this whole situation was cartridge casing
- 12:39Speaker 6: is a cylindrical shape. The fingerprint went about 300 degrees
- 12:45Speaker 6: almost all the way around this cartridge case. So what
- 12:48Speaker 6: I had to do was photograph it in different steps.
- 12:53Speaker 6: I'd photograph it, and I would turn it about a
- 12:55Speaker 6: sixteenth of an inch, adjust the light so that it
- 12:57Speaker 6: was exactly the same, and photograph it again. And then
- 13:00Speaker 6: I would continue to do that over and over so
- 13:02Speaker 6: that I had photographed the entire circumference of the cartridge casing.
- 13:08Speaker 1: The hour-long process yielded one complete fingerprint. It was investigators'
- 13:14Speaker 1: first solid lead. Detectives fed the print into a system
- 13:20Speaker 1: that was connected to 185 other databases throughout North America.
- 13:26Speaker 4: We could take that one latent fingerprint and send it
- 13:30Speaker 4: to any automated fingerprint system in North America and ask
- 13:34Speaker 4: them to search their database to see if that fingerprint
- 13:37Speaker 4: was on file or was recorded within any of their
- 13:42Speaker 4: automated systems.
- 13:46Speaker 1: Unfortunately, the extensive search provided no match. Either the suspect
- 13:53Speaker 1: had no record or he had not committed any crimes
- 13:56Speaker 1: within North America.
- 14:01Speaker 2: The next morning, Police looked for witnesses.
- 14:03Speaker 1: Among area commuters on Route 123 who may have seen something.
- 14:07Speaker 2: Unusual the morning of the attack.
- 14:12Speaker 1: They handed out flyers with a sketch of the suspect
- 14:15Speaker 1: to 3,000 motorists. Intense media attention generated sightings from across
- 14:21Speaker 1: the country. None immediately panned out, but the reports were
- 14:28Speaker 1: maintained in the command center's growing database. Through the night,
- 14:34Speaker 1: patrols on the roads around northern Virginia and the Washington, D.C.
- 14:38Speaker 2: Area remained on high alert.
- 14:43Speaker 1: That evening, a car fitting the description of the suspects
- 14:46Speaker 1: was pulled over by a Virginia state trooper. The trooper
- 14:53Speaker 1: called for backup, then approached the vehicle. He had no
- 15:00Speaker 1: idea if he had the shooter, or if the man.
- 15:03Speaker 2: Was carrying an AK-47.
- 15:04Speaker 1: On January 26, 1993, 36 hours after a lone gunman
- 15:14Speaker 1: opened fire with an AK-47 in front of CIA headquarters,
- 15:18Speaker 1: killing two and wounding three others, Virginia state troopers stopped
- 15:22Speaker 1: a vehicle that fit the description of the suspect's car.
- 15:26Speaker 1: The killer had been described vaguely as having an olive complexion,
- 15:30Speaker 1: medium build, and dark hair.
- 15:35Speaker 2: Though the man.
- 15:35Speaker 1: Troopers stopped also fit that description. A fingerprint check confirmed
- 15:39Speaker 1: he was not the fugitive. By now, dozens of personnel
- 15:46Speaker 1: from the CIA, ATF, and the FBI had joined Fairfax
- 15:50Speaker 1: County Detective Fred Fife's team in pursuit of the murderer.
- 15:56Speaker 4: As additional manpower was needed for different areas, they were
- 15:59Speaker 4: brought in and supplemented us The FBI was very generous.
- 16:03Speaker 4: They supplied us not only with the hard technology, the
- 16:07Speaker 4: computers and so forth, but their clerical staff to maintain
- 16:11Speaker 4: the information management system that we had designed that we
- 16:17Speaker 4: felt we could process the leads as they were coming in.
- 16:21Speaker 1: FBI Special Agent Brad Garrett was concerned that despite recovering
- 16:25Speaker 1: a fingerprint from a shell casing at the crime scene,
- 16:28Speaker 1: investigators were still unable.
- 16:29Speaker 2: To identify the perpetrator. or his motive.
- 16:35Speaker 1: All they knew for sure was that the gunman used
- 16:37Speaker 1: an AK-47.
- 16:40Speaker 5: So I made this decision. I said, let's go back
- 16:43Speaker 5: and look at all the AK-47s purchased in the last year.
- 16:47Speaker 5: And the reason we did that was that typically people
- 16:50Speaker 5: who commit these kind of acts buy their weapons a
- 16:54Speaker 5: short time or acquire their weapons a short time before
- 16:57Speaker 5: they commit the act.
- 17:00Speaker 1: Over the next several days, ATF agents visited gun shops
- 17:03Speaker 1: in the Virginia and Maryland area outside of Washington, D.C.,
- 17:08Speaker 1: since the purchase or possession of firearms is forbidden within
- 17:11Speaker 1: city limits. They discovered that 1,000 AK-47s were purchased in
- 17:16Speaker 1: northern Virginia over the past year. Another 600 had been
- 17:22Speaker 1: purchased in Maryland.
- 17:24Speaker 2: Here we go.
- 17:27Speaker 1: Agents gathered records of every purchase and entered the gun
- 17:30Speaker 1: owner's names into the command center's large computer database.
- 17:38Speaker 2: At firing ranges within 100 miles.
- 17:40Speaker 1: Of CIA headquarters, agents also questioned gun owners directly. They
- 17:50Speaker 1: asked if they remembered anyone in the past year who
- 17:53Speaker 1: matched the suspect's description. and had practiced with an AK-47.
- 18:00Speaker 2: They remembered no one.
- 18:04Speaker 1: By February 1st, a week after the shooting, investigators hoped
- 18:08Speaker 1: their growing database of witness descriptions and gun purchases could
- 18:12Speaker 1: provide a common link among the thousands of names and
- 18:15Speaker 1: police reports entered so far. Agents and detectives set parameters
- 18:21Speaker 1: for the database to cross-reference the suspect's physical characteristics with
- 18:25Speaker 1: those who made a recent purchase of an AK-47 and
- 18:28Speaker 1: who had a local address. The computer returned one name,
- 18:34Speaker 1: 28-year-old Mir Emal Kanzi. He had purchased an AK-47 three
- 18:40Speaker 1: days before the shooting. He was a Pakistani immigrant who
- 18:45Speaker 1: lived in Herndon, Virginia, and was reported missing three days
- 18:48Speaker 1: after the shooting by his roommate. Investigators immediately dispatched a
- 18:56Speaker 1: team of agents to track down Mir Amal Kanzi.
- 19:02Speaker 2: Kanzi was not at home, but the roommate.
- 19:04Speaker 1: Who reported him missing worked at nearby Dulles International Airport.
- 19:10Speaker 1: Kanzi's roommate, also a Pakistani immigrant, was employed by a
- 19:13Speaker 1: security company to operate a magnetometer that checked passengers for weapons.
- 19:34Speaker 1: He told the FBI that he hadn't seen Kanzi for
- 19:37Speaker 1: several days.
- 19:38Speaker 2: Set up an interview sometime soon.
- 19:39Speaker 4: No, sir.
- 19:41Speaker 1: He said he was unable to talk at length since
- 19:42Speaker 1: he was on duty, but would meet agents later at
- 19:45Speaker 1: his apartment in Herndon, Virginia, to answer all their questions.
- 19:51Speaker 1: The roommate added that he was scheduled to fly back
- 19:53Speaker 1: to Pakistan later in the week, but would cooperate with
- 19:56Speaker 1: authorities until then. When investigators arrived to question the roommate again,
- 20:10Speaker 1: He wasn't there. They soon discovered that the roommate had
- 20:23Speaker 1: changed his travel plans.
- 20:26Speaker 4: A lot of the plans and commitments that he had
- 20:29Speaker 4: told the FBI agent and the detective on Sunday had
- 20:34Speaker 4: started to change. He gave a notice at his apartment
- 20:37Speaker 4: that he was going to be leaving on Tuesday instead
- 20:40Speaker 4: of Thursday. He switched a flight to Pakistan back to Tuesday.
- 20:45Speaker 4: That was the first opportunity he would have to fly
- 20:47Speaker 4: out of the country.
- 20:49Speaker 2: We started finding all this information.
- 20:51Speaker 4: He shut his utilities off at his apartment. In other words,
- 20:54Speaker 4: he was preparing to leave the United States in a
- 20:57Speaker 4: big hurry.
- 21:02Speaker 1: With less than 24 hours until the roommate's flight departed,
- 21:06Speaker 1: agents maintained constant surveillance, hoping to catch the roommate or
- 21:10Speaker 1: Kanzi at home. The perseverance paid off. they found the
- 21:24Speaker 1: roommate alone at home. There were few items in the apartment.
- 21:33Speaker 1: It appeared that both Kanzi and the roommate were not
- 21:35Speaker 1: planning to return. The man didn't know where Kanzi was now,
- 21:40Speaker 1: who consented to allow the investigators to search what was
- 21:43Speaker 1: left in the barren apartment. In a suitcase stored in
- 21:49Speaker 1: the bedroom, agents discovered a Beretta and Makarov automatic pistols
- 21:54Speaker 1: ammunition for an AK-47, and a bulletproof vest. The roommate
- 22:09Speaker 1: denied any knowledge of the weapons and claimed that the
- 22:11Speaker 1: suitcase belonged to Kanzi. Investigators continued to search the apartment.
- 22:21Speaker 1: Under a couch wrapped in plastic, they found another gun.
- 22:28Speaker 1: It was an AK-47, the same type of weapon used
- 22:31Speaker 1: to kill two and wound three in front of CIA headquarters.
- 22:37Speaker 1: The roommate said he didn't know the weapon was there
- 22:39Speaker 1: and added that he had only met Kanzi a few
- 22:41Speaker 1: months earlier when Kanzi had first moved in.
- 22:44Speaker 5: The roommate told us that Mr. Kanzi initially came to
- 22:48Speaker 5: him through another Pakistani agent because Mr. Kanzi was looking
- 22:51Speaker 5: for a place to live. The roommates said, fine, you
- 22:54Speaker 5: can live with me, and they set an amount of
- 22:57Speaker 5: money for Mr. Kanzi to live with him.
- 23:02Speaker 1: They hoped the FBI lab could confirm forensically that they
- 23:05Speaker 1: had found the murder weapon. But for now, their prime suspect,
- 23:11Speaker 1: Mir Amal Kanzi, was still unaccounted for. By February 8, 1993...
- 23:20Speaker 1: Two weeks had passed since a lone gunman opened fire
- 23:23Speaker 1: with an AK-47 in front of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia,
- 23:27Speaker 1: killing two CIA employees and wounding three others. The FBI, ATF,
- 23:34Speaker 1: and Fairfax County Police believe 28-year-old Mir Amal Kanzi, a
- 23:39Speaker 1: Pakistani immigrant, was their prime suspect. At Kanzi's apartment in Herndon, Virginia,
- 23:47Speaker 1: Investigators continued their search where they had found an AK-47,
- 23:50Speaker 1: the same type of weapon used in the CIA shootings.
- 23:56Speaker 1: Kanzi was missing, and his Pakistani roommate, who was scheduled
- 24:00Speaker 1: to return to Pakistan the following day, had no idea
- 24:03Speaker 1: where Kanzi was now, according to FBI Special Agent Brad Garrett.
- 24:09Speaker 5: The roommate told us that he really didn't spend much
- 24:11Speaker 5: time with Mr. Kanzi. The roommate worked two jobs, Mr.
- 24:14Speaker 5: Kanzi worked a job. They would occasionally go to the
- 24:17Speaker 5: mosque together to pray, but that their interactions with each
- 24:21Speaker 5: other were very limited. They were in the apartment many
- 24:23Speaker 5: times at different times of the day when the other
- 24:25Speaker 5: one was gone.
- 24:28Speaker 1: Hoping to assail investigators' suspicions of him, the roommate signed
- 24:32Speaker 1: his consent to assist with the investigation. In a closet,
- 24:39Speaker 1: investigators found a tan field jacket similar to the one
- 24:42Speaker 1: witnesses had described worn by the shooter.
- 24:44Speaker 4: In fact, I've seen it.
- 24:46Speaker 1: The roommate told him the coat belonged to Kanzi. Outside
- 24:54Speaker 1: the apartment, the roommate pointed out Kanzi's vehicle parked at
- 24:57Speaker 1: the curb, a small pickup truck. Officers confirmed it was
- 25:03Speaker 1: registered to the suspect. Inside, they spotted a map that
- 25:09Speaker 1: was open to the CIA headquarters area in Langley, Virginia.
- 25:14Speaker 1: Close by, they also saw a clipping about the CIA director.
- 25:20Speaker 1: Agents would need to secure a warrant before they could
- 25:22Speaker 1: conduct a more thorough search. If this was the vehicle
- 25:27Speaker 1: used by the killer, witnesses' descriptions of the car at
- 25:30Speaker 1: the shooting had been wrong. Though the roommate had cooperated
- 25:36Speaker 1: with investigators, Fairfax County Detective Fred Fife wasn't going to
- 25:39Speaker 1: take any chances.
- 25:42Speaker 2: We knew Mr.
- 25:43Speaker 4: Conzi's roommate was planning on leaving the United States because
- 25:46Speaker 4: he had purchased airline tickets for a flight out of
- 25:50Speaker 4: the United States, which was one way. He was not
- 25:53Speaker 4: planning on returning. He was deemed a material witness to
- 25:58Speaker 4: the investigation and subsequently taken into custody and held based
- 26:04Speaker 4: on his abilities to flee the United States.
- 26:10Speaker 1: At police headquarters, investigators continued to question Konzi's roommate. He
- 26:17Speaker 1: told them Konzi had worked as a messenger for a
- 26:19Speaker 1: local courier service since August of 1992. Six months earlier,
- 26:25Speaker 1: in February 1992, Konzi had received political asylum and a
- 26:29Speaker 1: work permit from the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
- 26:34Speaker 5: We were fortunate in this case that we had Mr.
- 26:36Speaker 5: Konzi's prints because he had no criminal records. in the
- 26:40Speaker 5: United States. But the immigration service here in the U.S.
- 26:46Speaker 5: had fingerprinted him at one point because he had asked
- 26:49Speaker 5: for asylum here in the United States. So they had
- 26:52Speaker 5: a fingerprint card that we were able to get from them.
- 26:56Speaker 1: Lab technicians were called in to process the forensic evidence
- 26:59Speaker 1: through the night as the roommate told investigators more about Kanzi.
- 27:03Speaker 2: He said Kanzi was usually quiet, But.
- 27:10Speaker 1: When he watched television news reports, he became enraged at
- 27:13Speaker 1: how Muslims were being treated during conflicts in Bosnia, Iraq,
- 27:17Speaker 1: and Israel. That's when Kanzi vowed to take action.
- 27:22Speaker 5: The roommate eventually admitted that Mr. Kanzi had told him
- 27:27Speaker 5: that he was going to go do something big. And
- 27:30Speaker 5: we asked him to define big, and he said, well,
- 27:32Speaker 5: I'm not sure, but maybe a shooting of some sort.
- 27:35Speaker 5: And he mentioned going and doing something big at the
- 27:38Speaker 5: CIA headquarters. the White House or the Israeli embassy.
- 27:44Speaker 1: Agents believe the roommate was not connected with the shootings.
- 27:50Speaker 1: But he was not permitted to leave the country until
- 27:52Speaker 1: the investigation was complete. Lab examiners compared the fingerprint lifted
- 27:59Speaker 1: from the shell casing found at the shooting to Kanzi's
- 28:01Speaker 1: fingerprint on file at the INS.
- 28:03Speaker 2: They matched. They matched.
- 28:09Speaker 1: Investigators also confirmed that the serial number of the weapon
- 28:11Speaker 1: recovered in the apartment matched the serial number of the
- 28:14Speaker 1: Chinese-made AK-47 purchased by Kanzi three days before the CIA killings.
- 28:23Speaker 1: Kanzi had presented two forms of ID for a Virginia
- 28:26Speaker 1: State Police background check, and the purchase had been approved
- 28:29Speaker 1: within minutes. FBI lab examiners then compared bullets and shell
- 28:36Speaker 1: casings test-fired through Kanzi's AK-47 with the bullets and shell
- 28:40Speaker 1: casings collected from the crime scene by Fairfax Detective Jeff Miller.
- 28:45Speaker 6: The firearms examiner was able to say that the bullets
- 28:48Speaker 6: at the crime scene were fired from the gun that
- 28:51Speaker 6: was collected from Kanzi's apartment. He was also able to
- 28:54Speaker 6: examine the cartridge casings that he test-fired at the laboratory
- 28:59Speaker 6: from the AK-47 and compare them to the cartridge casings
- 29:02Speaker 6: that I collected at the crime scene. And he was
- 29:05Speaker 6: able to say that the cartridge casings at the crime
- 29:07Speaker 6: scene were in fact fired from the same weapon.
- 29:11Speaker 1: Technicians next examined the field jacket seized from Kanzi's apartment closet.
- 29:17Speaker 1: If this was the same coat witnesses had seen the
- 29:19Speaker 1: shooter wearing when he fired point blank into their vehicles,
- 29:23Speaker 1: tiny shards of glass would be embedded in its material.
- 29:28Speaker 6: You had glass from a German car, glass from a
- 29:31Speaker 6: Swedish car, glass from an American car, and if he
- 29:34Speaker 6: had all three of those types of glass in his
- 29:37Speaker 6: clothing or on his shoes, then that would be pretty
- 29:40Speaker 6: obvious that he was, if not there, at least he
- 29:43Speaker 6: was near the scene when it happened because he's got
- 29:45Speaker 6: all this glass on him. They were able to find
- 29:50Speaker 6: glass particles in his clothing that matched the type of
- 29:53Speaker 6: glass that came from all the vehicles at the scene.
- 29:59Speaker 1: Investigators had enough evidence to charge Mir Amal Kanzi with
- 30:02Speaker 1: capital murder and malicious wounding. The FBI also filed charges
- 30:09Speaker 1: of flight to avoid prosecution and offered a $ 100, 000 reward
- 30:13Speaker 1: for information leading to Kanzi's capture. Agents fanned out to
- 30:19Speaker 1: interview members of the Washington-area Pakistani community. They were looking
- 30:25Speaker 1: for Kanzi's friends, acquaintances, or anyone who had come into
- 30:28Speaker 1: contact with him.
- 30:31Speaker 5: We learned that Mr. Kanzi had gone to a market
- 30:36Speaker 5: in Herndon, Virginia, and the individual who ran the market
- 30:39Speaker 5: had a connection at a travel agency. And we learned
- 30:42Speaker 5: through this individual that Mr. Kanzi had come to him
- 30:47Speaker 5: on the afternoon of the 25th, the day of the shooting,
- 30:51Speaker 5: and bought a one-way ticket to Pakistan.
- 30:56Speaker 1: The manager said that Kanzi had only one suitcase and
- 30:59Speaker 1: needed a ride to the airport, so the manager drove
- 31:01Speaker 1: Kanzi there himself. Agents confirmed that Kanzi boarded a flight
- 31:07Speaker 1: to Quetta, Pakistan, a city less than 80 miles from
- 31:11Speaker 1: the Afghanistan border. Two weeks after the shooting spree at
- 31:20Speaker 1: the CIA headquarters, a worldwide manhunt for the killer got underway.
- 31:26Speaker 1: The investigation would begin 8,000 miles away from the crime
- 31:30Speaker 1: scene in the Muslim nation of Pakistan. In February 1993,
- 31:38Speaker 1: 32-year-old Pakistani Mir Emal Kanzi was wanted by the FBI
- 31:42Speaker 1: for killing two and wounding three CIA employees on the
- 31:46Speaker 1: highway outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Two weeks after
- 31:53Speaker 1: the shooting, Agents learned that on January 25th, Kanzi had
- 31:57Speaker 1: boarded a one-way flight to Quetta, Pakistan, a city less
- 32:00Speaker 1: than 80 miles from the Afghanistan border.
- 32:05Speaker 2: By now, he could be anywhere.
- 32:08Speaker 1: Finding the fugitive halfway around the world presented overwhelming problems
- 32:13Speaker 1: for FBI Special Agent Brad Garrett.
- 32:17Speaker 5: One of the difficulties in investigating any case overseas is that,
- 32:20Speaker 5: first of all, you have no jurisdiction to begin with.
- 32:23Speaker 5: You're just another citizen, a U.S. citizen, traveling to a
- 32:26Speaker 5: foreign country. So the key in catching any fugitive, obviously,
- 32:31Speaker 5: is developing intelligence information. And you do that typically through informants.
- 32:38Speaker 1: The FBI turned to DEA Supervisory Special Agent Gregory Lee
- 32:43Speaker 1: for help. Since Pakistan had been a major source country
- 32:48Speaker 1: of heroin and hashish.
- 32:50Speaker 2: The.
- 32:50Speaker 1: DEA already had established many reliable contacts and informants over
- 32:54Speaker 1: the previous 10 years. At the time of the investigation,
- 32:59Speaker 1: Agent Lee was the resident agent in charge of the
- 33:02Speaker 1: DEA's office in Karachi, Pakistan.
- 33:06Speaker 7: Well, the working environment there is a complete contrast to
- 33:09Speaker 7: what an FBI agent would be used to working domestically
- 33:12Speaker 7: in the United States. And it's like you literally fell
- 33:15Speaker 7: out of a tree and then showed up at a
- 33:17Speaker 7: place that is foreign to him in every way, to
- 33:19Speaker 7: include the language, the infrastructure, how to get around, who
- 33:22Speaker 7: to see. We could provide him with protection, with weapons,
- 33:27Speaker 7: with anything he needed to help conduct his investigation.
- 33:33Speaker 1: In a country of 135 million people that was politically
- 33:37Speaker 1: volatile and had rampant corruption among officials, the FBI would
- 33:41Speaker 1: need all the help.
- 33:41Speaker 2: It could get.
- 33:45Speaker 1: Agent Garrett also realized that Kanzi would have many sympathetic
- 33:48Speaker 1: supporters who could hide him in Pakistan or even in
- 33:51Speaker 1: neighboring Afghanistan.
- 33:54Speaker 5: He would be respected in Afghanistan. In fact, he was
- 33:57Speaker 5: respected in Pakistan. The CIA, in particular, and the U.S.
- 34:02Speaker 5: government in general, is not well-liked in either one of
- 34:05Speaker 5: those countries. And as a result, people didn't want to
- 34:08Speaker 5: give you information about him because they thought what he
- 34:11Speaker 5: did was, in some people's words, heroic.
- 34:16Speaker 1: In March of 1993, the U.S. State Department declared Kanzi's
- 34:20Speaker 1: alleged attack on CIA employees an act of terrorism and
- 34:24Speaker 1: raised the reward for information leading to his capture to
- 34:27Speaker 1: $ 2 million. With the groundwork established, Agent Garrett boarded a
- 34:34Speaker 1: 21-hour flight to.
- 34:35Speaker 2: Karachi, Pakistan.
- 34:39Speaker 1: When he landed, DEA agents had already arranged for him
- 34:42Speaker 1: to meet his first contact, Agents distributed pamphlets and matchbooks
- 34:49Speaker 1: with Kanzi's photo, publicizing the $ 2 million reward in English, Arabic,
- 34:54Speaker 1: and Punjabi. The reward generated leads from as far away
- 35:00Speaker 1: as Thailand and London. But informants in Pakistan claimed Kanzi
- 35:06Speaker 1: was hiding among the small border towns and tribes in Afghanistan.
- 35:12Speaker 5: Kanzi's family originally was from Afghanistan. Their family roots go
- 35:19Speaker 5: back to Afghanistan. And keep in mind that the city
- 35:23Speaker 5: that Kanzi is from, Quetta, Pakistan, is only about 80
- 35:28Speaker 5: miles from Afghanistan. And so the natural link between Kanzi, Quetta,
- 35:38Speaker 5: family heritage, and Afghanistan made sense.
- 35:42Speaker 1: Agents traveled to Kanzi's large family home in Quetta. and
- 35:46Speaker 1: interviewed his brothers who were wealthy landowners. They confirmed that
- 35:52Speaker 1: he had visited them back in January, a few days
- 35:55Speaker 1: after the shooting in Virginia. Kanzi arrived unannounced, carrying only
- 36:02Speaker 1: one small bag. That was unusual, considering the length of
- 36:08Speaker 1: the trip from the U.S. The brothers also thought it
- 36:12Speaker 1: was odd that Kanzi was wearing no coat, since winter
- 36:15Speaker 1: in Pakistan was then at its coldest. Kanzi only stayed
- 36:20Speaker 1: for a few days, then left as quickly as he'd arrived.
- 36:28Speaker 1: He didn't tell them where he was going, and they
- 36:30Speaker 1: hadn't heard.
- 36:31Speaker 2: From him since.
- 36:34Speaker 1: A few weeks later, the brothers became aware that their
- 36:36Speaker 1: brother Reymal was a wanted terrorist.
- 36:38Speaker 2: From reports on CNN.
- 36:43Speaker 1: Agents believed it was likely that Kanzi had disappeared over
- 36:46Speaker 1: the nearby border into Afghanistan.
- 36:49Speaker 5: We knew that it would be safer for him in
- 36:51Speaker 5: Afghanistan because, by and large, Afghanistan, particularly back then, is
- 36:56Speaker 5: a country that's just basically a bunch of tribes that
- 36:59Speaker 5: control different parts of Afghanistan. At that particular time, we
- 37:03Speaker 5: really had no central government that had control of Afghanistan.
- 37:07Speaker 5: So it's like, who would you even go to to
- 37:10Speaker 5: ask permission to come into Afghanistan?
- 37:15Speaker 1: The investigation had hit a dead end. Agents returned from
- 37:20Speaker 1: Pakistan without the fugitive. Kanzi's trail went cold for the
- 37:28Speaker 1: next three years, so the State Department raised the reward
- 37:31Speaker 1: for information leading to his capture to $ 3.
- 37:33Speaker 2: 5 million.
- 37:37Speaker 1: While Agent Garrett waited in Washington for the reward money
- 37:40Speaker 1: to flush out a viable informant, he spent time with
- 37:43Speaker 1: FBI fingerprint experts. Since so much time had passed, he
- 37:51Speaker 1: needed to learn how to recognize Kanzi through his fingerprints
- 37:54Speaker 1: in order to be certain they had the right man
- 37:57Speaker 1: if he was arrested in a remote location. The agent
- 38:02Speaker 1: studied the unique ridges and grooves of each one of
- 38:05Speaker 1: Kanzi's ten fingerprints that he'd given the INS years earlier.
- 38:08Speaker 2: I see that.
- 38:10Speaker 1: He was also taught how to fingerprint a resisting suspect
- 38:13Speaker 1: under field conditions.
- 38:16Speaker 5: This is a case that obviously took a large chunk
- 38:19Speaker 5: of my life to work on, you know, and I
- 38:24Speaker 5: guess one of my fears might be that we never
- 38:28Speaker 5: would catch him, you know, which is entirely possible. In
- 38:31Speaker 5: April 1997, after four years of pursuit....
- 38:39Speaker 1: An FBI agent at the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan,
- 38:43Speaker 1: received a call from one of their more reliable sources.
- 38:49Speaker 1: The man claimed he had information on Kanzi's whereabouts, but
- 38:52Speaker 1: the informant didn't want to say more over the phone.
- 38:57Speaker 1: He told the agent to wait in a public place
- 38:59Speaker 1: and that a second man would contact him on his
- 39:01Speaker 1: cell phone in an hour. the crowded streets of Karachi
- 39:08Speaker 1: would provide ample cover. If the wrong people saw the
- 39:11Speaker 1: informant talking to an American agent, he would.
- 39:14Speaker 2: Certainly be killed. As instructed, the agent waited on the
- 39:20Speaker 2: street for the call.
- 39:24Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 39:45Speaker 1: The agent hoped his contact would have viable information that
- 39:48Speaker 1: would finally lead the FBI to Kanzi. The informant claimed
- 40:02Speaker 1: he not only knew where Kanzi was, but that he
- 40:05Speaker 1: could put the fugitive in a specific hotel at a
- 40:07Speaker 1: certain time to enable his arrest. The informant represented a
- 40:12Speaker 1: group of Kanzi's protectors who decided the reward money was
- 40:16Speaker 1: too great to pass up. The highest levels of the U.S.
- 40:22Speaker 1: government were involved. The White House approved a secret arrest plan.
- 40:30Speaker 1: The Secretary of State then secured permission from the Pakistani
- 40:33Speaker 1: leader for U.S.
- 40:34Speaker 2: Agents to carry out the operations.
- 40:38Speaker 7: Pakistan is very sensitive to their image. They're very proud people.
- 40:43Speaker 7: They don't like the idea of a Pakistani being identified
- 40:48Speaker 7: as an international terrorist, somebody who would travel halfway around
- 40:51Speaker 7: the world to Washington for the purpose of killing CIA employees.
- 40:56Speaker 2: To them, he's an embarrassment.
- 40:58Speaker 4: Gentlemen, welcome.
- 40:59Speaker 1: Agents arrived in Pakistan with a special ops team from
- 41:02Speaker 1: the FBI training facility in.
- 41:04Speaker 2: Quantico, Virginia.
- 41:07Speaker 1: They would need to extract Kanzi from a hotel room
- 41:09Speaker 1: in a remote desert town in north-central Pakistan, where their
- 41:12Speaker 1: informant promised he'd be.
- 41:14Speaker 2: Getting his fingerprint is going to be key.
- 41:17Speaker 1: Each member would be assigned a task based on a
- 41:20Speaker 1: surveillance report of the hotel's layout.
- 41:23Speaker 2: Kanzi is.
- 41:26Speaker 2: Agents secured a room.
- 41:27Speaker 1: Across from the hotel where the informant claimed Kanzi would
- 41:29Speaker 1: be staying. They had no way to independently confirm if
- 41:35Speaker 1: Kanzi was there. All they had was the informant's word.
- 41:45Speaker 1: The informant told investigators that Kanzi's room was on an
- 41:48Speaker 1: upper floor.
- 41:49Speaker 4: Let's do that.
- 41:50Speaker 2: That's great.
- 41:53Speaker 1: Based on the informant's description of the interior layout, agents
- 41:57Speaker 1: would have to first secure the lobby and then the
- 41:59Speaker 1: stairwell before they could enter Kanzi's room. The informant added
- 42:03Speaker 1: that the hotel did not lock its front door and
- 42:05Speaker 1: had no security guard.
- 42:09Speaker 5: We took that information, we developed an arrest plan, how
- 42:13Speaker 5: we were going to enter the room, who was going
- 42:15Speaker 5: to do hall security, what we were going to do
- 42:17Speaker 5: once we were in the room, because it's extremely important
- 42:21Speaker 5: when you do arrest scenarios, that everyone know exactly where
- 42:26Speaker 5: they're going and what they're supposed to do.
- 42:29Speaker 2: Each had their assignments.
- 42:31Speaker 1: Once they secured the lobby and stairwell, the front agent
- 42:34Speaker 1: would coax the fugitive out of his room by calling
- 42:37Speaker 1: for morning prayer. They put on body armor and checked
- 42:41Speaker 1: their weapons. To hide their paraphernalia, they wore shalwar kameezahs,
- 42:46Speaker 1: traditional Pakistani clothing, over their Western garb. On June 15, 1997,
- 42:55Speaker 1: the operation to arrest Mir Emal Kanzi went into action.
- 43:01Speaker 1: The team arrived at 4 a.m., figuring there'd be fewer
- 43:04Speaker 1: people on the street at that early hour. But when
- 43:08Speaker 1: they tried to enter the hotel, they found the front
- 43:11Speaker 1: door was locked.
- 43:13Speaker 5: We can't get in. So here's four Americans dressed up
- 43:17Speaker 5: in Pakistani garb, standing out. you know, at 4.05 in
- 43:21Speaker 5: the morning outside this hotel. Clearly the anxiety was, you know,
- 43:24Speaker 5: off the charts because of where you were. It's almost
- 43:27Speaker 5: like you're in a dream a little bit, like this
- 43:29Speaker 5: is surreal.
- 43:31Speaker 1: To make matters worse, the street was filled with people
- 43:34Speaker 1: who likely noticed that the Americans were clearly.
- 43:36Speaker 2: Out of place.
- 43:38Speaker 5: We didn't realize that this particular location was extremely hot
- 43:42Speaker 5: in the summer. So people started to work at 3
- 43:45Speaker 5: or 4 o'clock in the morning. So the street was
- 43:47Speaker 5: full of people. So it's another thing that we didn't
- 43:50Speaker 5: calculate for.
- 43:52Speaker 1: The informant had been wrong about the locked door. After
- 43:56Speaker 1: four and a half years of pursuing Kanzi, the FBI
- 44:00Speaker 1: had hit another obstacle. On June 15, 1997, an FBI
- 44:07Speaker 1: arrest team disguised in Pakistani garb attempted to gain entry
- 44:11Speaker 1: to a locked hotel in north-central Pakistan where they believed
- 44:14Speaker 1: suspected terrorist Mir Amal Kanzi was hiding. But to FBI
- 44:19Speaker 1: Special Agent Brad Garrett, it appeared that their informant had
- 44:22Speaker 1: misled the team.
- 44:26Speaker 5: We went up to the hotel and the initial intelligence
- 44:29Speaker 5: was that the door would be unlocked and there'd be
- 44:32Speaker 5: no security guard. And we get there and the door
- 44:35Speaker 5: is locked and then within a few minutes we realize
- 44:37Speaker 5: that there is a security guard there.
- 44:41Speaker 1: Agents summoned the guard and pushed their way into the hotel.
- 44:45Speaker 1: The team secured the lobby and moved quickly up the stairs.
- 44:50Speaker 1: They hoped the informant had been correct about Kanzi's room number.
- 44:54Speaker 1: If the fugitive was in fact there at all. When
- 45:00Speaker 1: everyone was in place, the front agent knocked on the
- 45:03Speaker 1: door and called for morning prayer to coax out whoever
- 45:06Speaker 1: was on the other side of the door. If Kanzi
- 45:09Speaker 1: was inside, he may be armed. Agents prepared for the worst.
- 45:20Speaker 1: The door cracked open and the agents pushed forward. The
- 45:26Speaker 1: man put up a struggle and began to scream. He
- 45:32Speaker 1: had to be gagged so others in the hotel would
- 45:34Speaker 1: not be awakened.
- 45:37Speaker 5: I tell him after he comes in a little bit
- 45:40Speaker 5: that if I take the gag off, will you promise
- 45:45Speaker 5: not to yell anymore? And he said yes. So we
- 45:48Speaker 5: take the gag off. He doesn't yell anymore. I asked
- 45:51Speaker 5: him his name. He says an obscenity to me in English.
- 45:55Speaker 5: He didn't look like his picture. He gained weight. And
- 45:59Speaker 5: I said, you know, I'm not sure this is the
- 46:01Speaker 5: right guy.
- 46:03Speaker 1: The agent hoped the man's fingerprint would match prints Kanzi
- 46:06Speaker 1: had provided for the INS six years earlier. He inked
- 46:12Speaker 1: the suspect's thumb and compared it to Kanzi's known thumbprint.
- 46:17Speaker 2: What are you doing? The prints matched. After more than.
- 46:26Speaker 1: Four years and 8,000 miles, the FBI finally had suspected
- 46:30Speaker 1: terrorist Mir Amal Kanzi in custody. But their mission was
- 46:37Speaker 1: by no means complete. Not only did they have to
- 46:42Speaker 1: get Kanzi and themselves out of the hotel safely, but
- 46:46Speaker 1: also out of Pakistan altogether. DEA Supervisory Special Agent Gregory
- 46:53Speaker 1: Lee assisted the FBI with logistical support in Pakistan.
- 46:58Speaker 7: You've got a guy in custody now, and you're in
- 47:01Speaker 7: a foreign land. You're about 8,000 miles from home. You're
- 47:05Speaker 7: out in what's essentially the high desert that would be
- 47:09Speaker 7: Death Valley here. And you're trying to get this guy
- 47:13Speaker 7: now from Pakistan back to the United States.
- 47:19Speaker 1: Americans holding a Pakistani citizen captive in his own country
- 47:22Speaker 1: was dangerous.
- 47:26Speaker 2: Agents drove the international.
- 47:28Speaker 1: Fugitive to a waiting helicopter and flew him to Islamabad,
- 47:33Speaker 1: where permission for extradition was granted the next day. FBI
- 47:39Speaker 1: headquarters in Washington was informed with a code phrase, the
- 47:43Speaker 1: package has been delivered. the arrest team flew Kanzi out
- 47:48Speaker 1: of Pakistan on.
- 47:49Speaker 5: An Air Force plane.
- 47:52Speaker 1: To avoid landing in a foreign country, the plane was
- 47:54Speaker 1: refueled in midair, so Kanzi could not ask for asylum
- 47:57Speaker 1: before facing justice in the United States. During the 21-hour
- 48:03Speaker 1: nonstop flight, Kanzi confided that he'd been in Afghanistan for
- 48:07Speaker 1: almost the entire.
- 48:08Speaker 2: Four years while he was on the run.
- 48:11Speaker 1: He also claimed responsibility for the shooting in front of
- 48:14Speaker 1: CIA headquarters. As a political statement against the CIA of
- 48:20Speaker 1: the United States, he decided to kill workers before they
- 48:23Speaker 1: pulled into the heavily guarded entrance. He explained that he
- 48:27Speaker 1: didn't shoot any women because Islam forbids it. He said
- 48:32Speaker 1: that after the shooting, he was surprised that he was
- 48:34Speaker 1: still alive. So he drove to a nearby park, went
- 48:38Speaker 1: to lunch, then bought a plane ticket to Pakistan.
- 48:43Speaker 5: I said, well, why did you quit shooting? Because you
- 48:46Speaker 5: had told us earlier that you had all this ammunition
- 48:48Speaker 5: on you and that we had found all this ammunition
- 48:50Speaker 5: in your apartment. And he said that he ran out
- 48:54Speaker 5: of people to shoot.
- 48:57Speaker 1: Affirming that his statement had been given freely and willingly,
- 49:00Speaker 1: Conzi signed his confession. After arriving in the U.S., a
- 49:06Speaker 1: chopper transported the prisoner to a secure location. Under heavy security,
- 49:13Speaker 1: agents delivered Conzi to the Fairfax County Police to face
- 49:16Speaker 1: the murder and assault charges.
- 49:19Speaker 6: Fair.
- 49:20Speaker 2: County Detective Jeff Miller remembers that day.
- 49:24Speaker 6: Having him... captured and brought back to the United States
- 49:28Speaker 6: showed to the whole rest of the world that the
- 49:31Speaker 6: United States, the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency is not
- 49:36Speaker 6: going to just let this sort of thing lie and
- 49:39Speaker 6: not do something about it. No matter how long it takes,
- 49:42Speaker 6: no matter where these kinds of people may hide, the
- 49:45Speaker 6: United States is going to do their very best to
- 49:48Speaker 6: try and track these people down and bring them back
- 49:52Speaker 6: to justice.
- 49:54Speaker 1: Kanzi was found guilty of murder, malicious shooting, and using
- 49:58Speaker 1: a firearm in the commission of a felony. He was
- 50:02Speaker 1: sentenced to death and is scheduled for execution in 2002.
- 50:08Speaker 1: In the wake of the shootings, memorials to the slain
- 50:11Speaker 1: victims were established on Highway 123, where they fell to
- 50:15Speaker 1: the gunman's bullets. The CIA tightened its security at the
- 50:20Speaker 1: Langley compound and at all of its offices around the
- 50:23Speaker 1: world The successful investigation would prove to be another in
- 50:28Speaker 1: the long line of battles against terror.
- 50:31Speaker 7: © transcript Emily Beynon