Full Transcript for CIA Headquarters Shooting Inside the International Manhunt for Mir Amal Kanzi

olive-complected type individual, armed with a rifle. And that was 69 00:05:56.160 --> 00:06:01.180 pretty much the composite description we were able to put together. 70 00:06:02.060 --> 00:06:06.540 Height varied considerably. The vehicle ranged from being a brown 71 00:06:06.939 --> 00:06:10.920 station wagon to a blue truck. I think a lot 72 00:06:10.959 --> 00:06:14.019 of the people were in a panic situation and were 73 00:06:14.459 --> 00:06:16.529 shielding themselves from being victims. 74 00:06:19.209 --> 00:06:21.129 One woman got a closer look than most. 75 00:06:24.209 --> 00:06:26.620 She described the shooter as a man with dark hair 76 00:06:26.899 --> 00:06:30.120 in his early 30s, wearing a tan jacket and dark pants. 77 00:06:33.019 --> 00:06:34.160 though he had her in his sights. 78 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:36.680 For some reason, he chose not to shoot. 79 00:06:39.139 --> 00:06:42.050 We looked at the individuals that were killed, and we said, 80 00:06:42.589 --> 00:06:44.750 could there be a connection? Had they done something in 81 00:06:44.790 --> 00:06:49.129 the past that someone could have wanted to take revenge 82 00:06:49.189 --> 00:06:51.370 on them for whatever reason, whether it be personal or professional, 83 00:06:51.389 --> 00:06:52.730 because you've got to look at this both ways. 84 00:06:54.689 --> 00:06:58.040 The immediate crime scene covered an area of 50 square yards. 85 00:07:00.970 --> 00:07:07.970 Glass and shell casings littered the roadway. Forensic technicians needed 86 00:07:07.990 --> 00:07:10.569 to record every detail before the bodies of the two 87 00:07:10.649 --> 00:07:13.889 slain victims could be removed from their cars, according to 88 00:07:13.930 --> 00:07:16.240 Fairfax County crime scene detective Jeff Miller. 89 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:21.079 I have a duty to them, and my duty is 90 00:07:21.139 --> 00:07:26.100 I have to be their voice. They've been murdered. Here's 91 00:07:26.120 --> 00:07:29.620 this person who's silent forever, and somebody has to speak 92 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:31.730 up for them. And so that's the way I look 93 00:07:31.810 --> 00:07:35.110 at it, is I'm their voice. And it's my job 94 00:07:35.170 --> 00:07:37.949 to find whatever it is that's going to help us 95 00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:41.939 find or identify the person who's responsible for this. 96 00:07:44.120 --> 00:07:50.639 Crime scene investigators recovered 10 empty shell casings. They believe 97 00:07:50.660 --> 00:07:57.029 they were likely fired from an AK-47. Towards the back 98 00:07:57.069 --> 00:08:00.310 of the cars where the gunman began firing, Technicians also 99 00:08:00.379 --> 00:08:01.629 recovered one live round. 100 00:08:01.649 --> 00:08:09.019 Forensic evidence always tells the truth. It's never clouded by 101 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:12.899 someone's perception. It never lies to you. It's always telling 102 00:08:12.939 --> 00:08:15.490 the truth. And it's my job to find it. All 103 00:08:15.500 --> 00:08:17.430 I have to do is find it. And once I 104 00:08:17.490 --> 00:08:19.910 find it and I'm able to examine it, it's going 105 00:08:19.930 --> 00:08:21.709 to tell me exactly what happened. 106 00:08:22.970 --> 00:08:25.629 The live round on the ground told investigators that the 107 00:08:25.649 --> 00:08:29.050 weapon was a semi-automatic. and had most likely jammed before 108 00:08:29.089 --> 00:08:37.149 the killer fired his first round. Noting the location of 109 00:08:37.190 --> 00:08:40.309 the casings in relation to the shattered glass enabled the 110 00:08:40.370 --> 00:08:43.720 team to determine the trajectories and order of the gunman's bullets. 111 00:08:48.580 --> 00:08:51.960 Investigators also gathered glass samples from each of the vehicle's 112 00:08:52.019 --> 00:08:57.600 broken windows They hoped the combination of several types of 113 00:08:57.679 --> 00:09:00.509 glass found in the same location would prove significant. 114 00:09:02.809 --> 00:09:05.090 They had a number of different cars. Each of the 115 00:09:05.129 --> 00:09:07.429 cars was a different manufacturer. It had a German car, 116 00:09:07.450 --> 00:09:09.309 it had an American car, it had a Swedish car. 117 00:09:09.690 --> 00:09:12.029 The glass that's put in these cars is all different. 118 00:09:12.480 --> 00:09:14.980 If some of this glass had spattered back on the shooter, 119 00:09:15.379 --> 00:09:18.500 even though it was microscopic, someone who had these three 120 00:09:18.539 --> 00:09:21.059 different kinds of glass on their clothing, that might be 121 00:09:21.159 --> 00:09:22.620 probative of the investigations. 122 00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:27.110 While investigators continued to gather evidence of the crime scene, 123 00:09:27.629 --> 00:09:30.769 agents and detectives visited nearby hospitals to speak to the 124 00:09:30.809 --> 00:09:36.570 remaining survivors. The young woman who had lost her husband 125 00:09:36.629 --> 00:09:39.450 in the assault hadn't seen much since she hid below 126 00:09:39.490 --> 00:09:44.049 the dashboard most of the time. She said that the 127 00:09:44.070 --> 00:09:46.370 man could have shot her at any moment, but like 128 00:09:46.409 --> 00:09:49.870 the previous female survivor, he turned away instead of fire. 129 00:09:52.789 --> 00:09:55.799 She also told investigators that she and her husband normally 130 00:09:55.899 --> 00:09:58.789 used a different entrance to drive into the CIA compound. 131 00:10:00.679 --> 00:10:03.899 FBI agent Brad Garrett wondered who else might have known this. 132 00:10:05.860 --> 00:10:10.620 We immediately started looking at who within the CIA, in 133 00:10:10.659 --> 00:10:14.539 other words, disgruntled employees, present employees, that may have had 134 00:10:14.590 --> 00:10:19.269 a relationship with these people that could have retaliated for 135 00:10:19.330 --> 00:10:22.740 whatever reason. There's a lot of bizarre people that have 136

00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:24.799 applied to work for the CIA, and they've rejected a 137 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:25.379 lot of people. 138 00:10:27.340 --> 00:10:30.659 At the Fairfax County Command Center, the female witness who 139 00:10:30.679 --> 00:10:32.960 had gotten the best look at the gunman worked with 140 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:39.730 a police sketch artist. Based on her description, investigators believed 141 00:10:39.750 --> 00:10:46.350 the suspect was of Hispanic or Middle Eastern background. She 142 00:10:46.389 --> 00:10:48.230 had not gotten as good a look at his vehicle, 143 00:10:48.450 --> 00:10:54.559 but recalled that it was a station wagon, Investigators released 144 00:10:54.600 --> 00:10:57.039 the drawings to the public hoping to elicit leads. 145 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:01.039 One of the first things we had to do was 146 00:11:01.100 --> 00:11:05.159 to get out through the media that afternoon a phone 147 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:09.450 number or a system where the potential witnesses that had 148 00:11:09.470 --> 00:11:13.250 been in that area that morning could contact us. And 149 00:11:13.330 --> 00:11:16.889 we needed to isolate a phone number for that purpose 150 00:11:16.950 --> 00:11:19.029 and get it out to the media as quickly as possible. 151 00:11:21.129 --> 00:11:24.639 As calls poured in, agents and detectives were still grappling 152 00:11:24.659 --> 00:11:26.080 to find a clear motive. 153 00:11:25.799 --> 00:11:29.159 For the shooting. 154 00:11:29.299 --> 00:11:31.559 If they could deduce a reason for the shooter's actions, 155 00:11:31.759 --> 00:11:36.899 it would limit the potential suspect pool. Agents searched the 156 00:11:36.940 --> 00:11:39.919 victim's backgrounds for possibilities as to why they may have 157 00:11:39.940 --> 00:11:42.700 been targeted. He then walked up to this car and 158 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:44.159 fired one more shot. 159 00:11:43.899 --> 00:11:44.490 Into car A. 160 00:11:45.159 --> 00:11:48.159 Once we started looking at the backgrounds of the individuals 161 00:11:48.179 --> 00:11:51.059 that were shot, and we looked at the circumstances as 162 00:11:51.120 --> 00:11:53.919 to why they were at that intersection, it didn't appear, 163 00:11:53.970 --> 00:11:57.490 at least to me, that there probably was a link 164 00:11:57.610 --> 00:12:02.990 between them being shot, those particular individuals being shot, and 165 00:12:03.009 --> 00:12:05.269 the person or persons that shot them. 166 00:12:08.610 --> 00:12:12.100 Just eight hours after the shooting... Fairfax County Detective Jeff 167 00:12:12.159 --> 00:12:14.879 Miller examined the cartridges recovered from the pavement at the 168 00:12:14.919 --> 00:12:21.039 crime scene. He confirmed the shells were from an AK-47 169 00:12:21.080 --> 00:12:25.039 assault rifle, a weapon used primarily by Russian and Chinese armies. 170 00:12:28.919 --> 00:12:32.769 Upon closer inspection, Detective Miller discovered a latent fingerprint on 171 00:12:32.809 --> 00:12:33.129 the shell. 172 00:12:35.539 --> 00:12:39.070 The difficult part about this whole situation was cartridge casing 173 00:12:39.139 --> 00:12:44.370 is a cylindrical shape. The fingerprint went about 300 degrees 174 00:12:45.129 --> 00:12:48.269 almost all the way around this cartridge case. So what 175 00:12:48.289 --> 00:12:51.269 I had to do was photograph it in different steps. 176 00:12:53.450 --> 00:12:55.429 I'd photograph it, and I would turn it about a 177 00:12:55.490 --> 00:12:57.669 sixteenth of an inch, adjust the light so that it 178 00:12:57.710 --> 00:13:00.409 was exactly the same, and photograph it again. And then 179 00:13:00.429 --> 00:13:02.289 I would continue to do that over and over so 180 00:13:02.309 --> 00:13:05.230 that I had photographed the entire circumference of the cartridge casing. 181 00:13:08.120 --> 00:13:14.320 The hour-long process yielded one complete fingerprint. It was investigators' 182 00:13:14.379 --> 00:13:20.350 first solid lead. Detectives fed the print into a system 183 00:13:20.370 --> 00:13:24.289 that was connected to 185 other databases throughout North America. 184 00:13:26.730 --> 00:13:29.929 We could take that one latent fingerprint and send it 185 00:13:30.019 --> 00:13:34.139 to any automated fingerprint system in North America and ask 186 00:13:34.179 --> 00:13:37.799 them to search their database to see if that fingerprint 187 00:13:37.899 --> 00:13:42.279 was on file or was recorded within any of their 188 00:13:42.679 --> 00:13:43.580 automated systems. 189 00:13:46.139 --> 00:13:53.889 Unfortunately, the extensive search provided no match. Either the suspect 190 00:13:53.929 --> 00:13:56.529 had no record or he had not committed any crimes 191 00:13:56.600 --> 00:13:57.639 within North America. 192 00:14:01.779 --> 00:14:04.169 The next morning, Police looked for witnesses. 193 00:14:03.830 --> 00:14:08.059 Among area commuters on Route 123 who may have seen something. 194 00:14:07.860 --> 00:14:09.440 Unusual the morning of the attack. 195 00:14:12.159 --> 00:14:14.919 They handed out flyers with a sketch of the suspect 196 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:21.929 to 3,000 motorists. Intense media attention generated sightings from across 197 00:14:21.950 --> 00:14:28.269 the country. None immediately panned out, but the reports were 198 00:14:28.309 --> 00:14:34.620 maintained in the command center's growing database. Through the night, 199 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:38.250 patrols on the roads around northern Virginia and the Washington, D.C. 200 00:14:38.330 --> 00:14:40.129 Area remained on high alert. 201 00:14:43.250 --> 00:14:46.409 That evening, a car fitting the description of the suspects 202 00:14:46.549 --> 00:14:53.320 was pulled over by a Virginia state trooper. The trooper 203 00:14:53.379 --> 00:15:00.350 called for backup, then approached the vehicle. He had no 204 00:15:00.450 --> 00:15:03.440 idea if he had the shooter, or if the

man. 205 00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:04.600 Was carrying an AK-47. 206 00:15:04.700 --> 00:15:13.889 On January 26, 1993, 36 hours after a lone gunman 207 00:15:14.029 --> 00:15:17.710 opened fire with an AK-47 in front of CIA headquarters, 208 00:15:18.169 --> 00:15:22.149 killing two and wounding three others, Virginia state troopers stopped 209 00:15:22.210 --> 00:15:24.830 a vehicle that fit the description of the suspect's car. 210 00:15:26.870 --> 00:15:29.960 The killer had been described vaguely as having an olive complexion, 211 00:15:30.259 --> 00:15:31.720 medium build, and dark hair. 212 00:15:35.159 --> 00:15:35.789 Though the man. 213 00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:39.750 Troopers stopped also fit that description. A fingerprint check confirmed 214 00:15:39.789 --> 00:15:46.629 he was not the fugitive. By now, dozens of personnel 215 00:15:46.669 --> 00:15:50.580 from the CIA, ATF, and the FBI had joined Fairfax 216 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:53.639 County Detective Fred Fife's team in pursuit of the murderer. 217 00:15:56.200 --> 00:15:59.360 As additional manpower was needed for different areas, they were 218 00:15:59.379 --> 00:16:03.149 brought in and supplemented us The FBI was very generous. 219 00:16:03.669 --> 00:16:07.429 They supplied us not only with the hard technology, the 220 00:16:07.470 --> 00:16:11.750 computers and so forth, but their clerical staff to maintain 221 00:16:11.769 --> 00:16:16.970 the information management system that we had designed that we 222 00:16:17.009 --> 00:16:19.740 felt we could process the leads as they were coming in. 223 00:16:21.779 --> 00:16:25.159 FBI Special Agent Brad Garrett was concerned that despite recovering 224 00:16:25.220 --> 00:16:27.480 a fingerprint from a shell casing at the crime scene, 225 00:16:28.179 --> 00:16:30.019 investigators were still unable. 226 00:16:29.799 --> 00:16:32.269 To identify the perpetrator. or his motive. 227 00:16:35.009 --> 00:16:37.330 All they knew for sure was that the gunman used 228 00:16:37.370 --> 00:16:38.230 an AK-47. 229 00:16:40.210 --> 00:16:43.090 So I made this decision. I said, let's go back 230 00:16:43.129 --> 00:16:47.220 and look at all the AK-47s purchased in the last year. 231 00:16:47.399 --> 00:16:50.679 And the reason we did that was that typically people 232 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:54.019 who commit these kind of acts buy their weapons a 233 00:16:54.059 --> 00:16:56.960 short time or acquire their weapons a short time before 234 00:16:57.379 --> 00:16:58.200 they commit the act. 235 00:17:00.299 --> 00:17:03.899 Over the next several days, ATF agents visited gun shops 236 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:07.220 in the Virginia and Maryland area outside of Washington, D.C., 237 00:17:08.049 --> 00:17:11.210 since the purchase or possession of firearms is forbidden within 238 00:17:11.309 --> 00:17:16.549 city limits. They discovered that 1,000 AK-47s were purchased in 239 00:17:16.589 --> 00:17:22.869 northern Virginia over the past year. Another

600 had been 240 00:17:22.890 --> 00:17:23.849 purchased in Maryland. 241 00:17:24.990 --> 00:17:25.230 Here we go. 242 00:17:27.390 --> 00:17:30.130 Agents gathered records of every purchase and entered the gun 243 00:17:30.170 --> 00:17:34.150 owner's names into the command center's large computer database. 244 00:17:38.339 --> 00:17:40.640 At firing ranges within 100 miles. 245 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:50.799 Of CIA headquarters, agents also questioned gun owners directly. They 246 00:17:50.859 --> 00:17:53.000 asked if they remembered anyone in the past year who 247 00:17:53.039 --> 00:18:00.039 matched the suspect's description. and had practiced with an AK-47. 248 00:18:00.779 --> 00:18:03.289 They remembered no one. 249 00:18:04.849 --> 00:18:08.789 By February 1st, a week after the shooting, investigators hoped 250 00:18:08.809 --> 00:18:12.210 their growing database of witness descriptions and gun purchases could 251 00:18:12.250 --> 00:18:14.970 provide a common link among the thousands of names and 252 00:18:15.009 --> 00:18:21.140 police reports entered so far. Agents and detectives set parameters 253 00:18:21.160 --> 00:18:25.119 for the database to cross-reference the suspect's physical characteristics with 254 00:18:25.160 --> 00:18:28.450 those who made a recent purchase of an AK-47 and 255 00:18:28.490 --> 00:18:34.470 who had a local address. The computer returned one name, 256 00:18:34.490 --> 00:18:40.009 28-year-old Mir Emal Kanzi. He had purchased an AK-47 three 257 00:18:40.069 --> 00:18:45.019 days before the shooting. He was a Pakistani immigrant who 258 00:18:45.079 --> 00:18:48.220 lived in Herndon, Virginia, and was reported missing three days 259 00:18:48.299 --> 00:18:56.109 after the shooting by his roommate. Investigators immediately dispatched a 260 00:18:56.170 --> 00:18:58.869 team of agents to track down Mir Amal Kanzi. 261 00:19:02.650 --> 00:19:05.250 Kanzi was not at home, but the roommate. 262 00:19:04.910 --> 00:19:08.799 Who reported him missing worked at nearby Dulles International Airport. 263 00:19:10.579 --> 00:19:13.920 Kanzi's roommate, also a Pakistani immigrant, was employed by a 264 00:19:13.980 --> 00:19:27.180 security company to operate a magnetometer that checked passengers for weapons. 265 00:19:34.630 --> 00:19:37.089 He told the FBI that he hadn't seen Kanzi for 266 00:19:37.150 --> 00:19:37.849 several days. 267 00:19:38.150 --> 00:19:39.710 Set up an interview sometime soon. 268 00:19:39.730 --> 00:19:40.029 No, sir. 269 00:19:41.019 --> 00:19:42.920 He said he was unable to talk at length since 270 00:19:42.960 --> 00:19:45.369 he was on duty, but would meet agents later at 271 00:19:45.410 --> 00:19:48.250 his apartment in Herndon, Virginia, to answer all their questions. 272 00:19:51.240 --> 00:19:53.420 The roommate added that he was scheduled to fly back 273 00:19:53.460 --> 00:19:56.240 to Pakistan later in the week, but would cooperate with 274 00:19:56.299 --> 00:20:10.109 authorities until then. When investigators arrived to question the roommate again, 275 00:20:10.849 --> 00:20:23.660 He wasn't there. They soon discovered that the roommate had 276 00:20:23.740 --> 00:20:25.119 changed his travel plans. 277 00:20:26.250 --> 00:20:29.170 A lot of the plans and commitments that he had 278 00:20:29.269 --> 00:20:33.970 told the FBI agent and the detective on Sunday had 279 00:20:34.029 --> 00:20:37.650 started to change. He gave a notice at his apartment 280 00:20:37.690 --> 00:20:40.279 that he was going to be leaving on Tuesday instead 281 00:20:40.299 --> 00:20:45.240 of Thursday. He switched a flight to Pakistan back to Tuesday. 282 00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:47.859 That was the first opportunity he would have to fly 283 00:20:47.920 --> 00:20:48.680 out of the country. 284 00:20:49.619 --> 00:20:51.240 We started finding all this information. 285 00:20:51.279 --> 00:20:54.710 He shut his utilities off at his apartment. In other words, 286 00:20:54.769 --> 00:20:57.609 he was preparing to leave the United States in a 287 00:20:57.630 --> 00:20:58.230 big hurry. 288 00:21:02.509 --> 00:21:05.559 With less than 24 hours until the roommate's flight departed, 289 00:21:06.220 --> 00:21:10.000 agents maintained constant surveillance, hoping to catch the roommate or 290 00:21:10.059 --> 00:21:24.150 Kanzi at home. The perseverance paid off. they found the 291 00:21:24.190 --> 00:21:29.880 roommate alone at home. There were few items in the apartment. 292 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:35.740 It appeared that both Kanzi and the roommate were not 293 00:21:35.819 --> 00:21:40.519 planning to return. The man didn't know where Kanzi was now, 294 00:21:40.920 --> 00:21:43.470 who consented to allow the investigators to search what was 295 00:21:43.549 --> 00:21:48.970 left in the barren apartment. In a suitcase stored in 296 00:21:49.009 --> 00:21:53.369 the bedroom, agents discovered a Beretta and Makarov automatic pistols 297 00:21:54.220 --> 00:22:09.349 ammunition for an AK-47, and a bulletproof vest. The roommate 298 00:22:09.390 --> 00:22:11.710 denied any knowledge of the weapons and claimed that the 299 00:22:11.750 --> 00:22:18.490 suitcase belonged to Kanzi. Investigators continued to search the apartment. 300 00:22:21.569 --> 00:22:24.390 Under a couch wrapped in plastic, they found another gun. 301 00:22:28.089 --> 00:22:31.490 It was an AK-47, the same type of weapon used 302 00:22:31.529 --> 00:22:35.099 to kill two and wound three in front of CIA headquarters. 303 00:22:37.099 --> 00:22:39.200 The roommate said he didn't know the weapon was there 304 00:22:39.539 --> 00:22:41.539 and added that he had only met Kanzi a few 305 00:22:41.599 --> 00:22:43.579 months earlier when Kanzi had first moved in. 306 00:22:44.799 --> 00:22:48.660 The roommate told us that Mr. Kanzi initially came to 307 00:22:48.700 --> 00:22:51.900 him through another Pakistani agent because Mr. Kanzi was looking 308 00:22:51.940 --> 00:22:54.869

for a place to live. The roommates said, fine, you 309 00:22:54.880 --> 00:22:57.089 can live with me, and they set an amount of 310 00:22:57.170 --> 00:23:00.630 money for Mr. Kanzi to live with him. 311 00:23:02.549 --> 00:23:05.569 They hoped the FBI lab could confirm forensically that they 312 00:23:05.589 --> 00:23:10.990 had found the murder weapon. But for now, their prime suspect, 313 00:23:11.170 --> 00:23:20.490 Mir Amal Kanzi, was still unaccounted for. By February 8, 1993... 314 00:23:20.490 --> 00:23:23.309 Two weeks had passed since a lone gunman opened fire 315 00:23:23.349 --> 00:23:27.480 with an AK-47 in front of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, 316 00:23:27.940 --> 00:23:34.859 killing two CIA employees and wounding three others. The FBI, ATF, 317 00:23:34.900 --> 00:23:39.619 and Fairfax County Police believe 28-year-old Mir Amal Kanzi, a 318 00:23:39.660 --> 00:23:46.930 Pakistani immigrant, was their prime suspect. At Kanzi's apartment in Herndon, Virginia, 319 00:23:47.480 --> 00:23:50.319 Investigators continued their search where they had found an AK-47, 320 00:23:50.519 --> 00:23:54.079 the same type of weapon used in the CIA shootings. 321 00:23:56.940 --> 00:24:00.150 Kanzi was missing, and his Pakistani roommate, who was scheduled 322 00:24:00.190 --> 00:24:03.390 to return to Pakistan the following day, had no idea 323 00:24:03.450 --> 00:24:07.349 where Kanzi was now, according to FBI Special Agent Brad Garrett. 324 00:24:09.549 --> 00:24:11.599 The roommate told us that he really didn't spend much 325 00:24:11.650 --> 00:24:14.559 time with Mr. Kanzi. The roommate worked two jobs, Mr. 326 00:24:14.599 --> 00:24:17.519 Kanzi worked a job. They would occasionally go to the 327 00:24:17.559 --> 00:24:21.500 mosque together to pray, but that their interactions with each 328 00:24:21.559 --> 00:24:23.680 other were very limited. They were in the apartment many 329 00:24:23.720 --> 00:24:25.970 times at different times of the day when the other 330 00:24:25.990 --> 00:24:26.589 one was gone. 331 00:24:28.829 --> 00:24:32.569 Hoping to assail investigators' suspicions of him, the roommate signed 332 00:24:32.609 --> 00:24:38.950 his consent to assist with the investigation. In a closet, 333 00:24:39.170 --> 00:24:42.230 investigators found a tan field jacket similar to the one 334 00:24:42.269 --> 00:24:44.289 witnesses had described worn by the shooter. 335 00:24:44.309 --> 00:24:45.950 In fact, I've seen it. 336 00:24:46.769 --> 00:24:54.599 The roommate told him the coat belonged to Kanzi. Outside 337 00:24:54.630 --> 00:24:57.859 the apartment, the roommate pointed out Kanzi's vehicle parked at 338 00:24:57.900 --> 00:25:03.660 the curb, a small pickup truck. Officers confirmed it was 339 00:25:03.740 --> 00:25:09.140 registered to the suspect. Inside, they spotted a map that 340 00:25:09.180 --> 00:25:12.420 was open to the CIA headquarters area in Langley, Virginia. 341 00:25:14.279 --> 00:25:17.680 Close by,

they also saw a clipping about the CIA director. 342 00:25:20.309 --> 00:25:22.470 Agents would need to secure a warrant before they could 343 00:25:22.490 --> 00:25:27.549 conduct a more thorough search. If this was the vehicle 344 00:25:27.670 --> 00:25:30.730 used by the killer, witnesses' descriptions of the car at 345 00:25:30.750 --> 00:25:36.019 the shooting had been wrong. Though the roommate had cooperated 346 00:25:36.059 --> 00:25:39.799 with investigators, Fairfax County Detective Fred Fife wasn't going to 347 00:25:39.859 --> 00:25:40.660 take any chances. 348 00:25:42.410 --> 00:25:43.569 We knew Mr. 349 00:25:43.630 --> 00:25:46.690 Conzi's roommate was planning on leaving the United States because 350 00:25:46.730 --> 00:25:50.009 he had purchased airline tickets for a flight out of 351 00:25:50.049 --> 00:25:53.079 the United States, which was one way. He was not 352 00:25:53.119 --> 00:25:58.240 planning on returning. He was deemed a material witness to 353 00:25:58.279 --> 00:26:04.250 the investigation and subsequently taken into custody and held based 354 00:26:04.630 --> 00:26:08.609 on his abilities to flee the United States. 355 00:26:10.920 --> 00:26:17.839 At police headquarters, investigators continued to question Konzi's roommate. He 356 00:26:17.859 --> 00:26:19.799 told them Konzi had worked as a messenger for a 357 00:26:19.839 --> 00:26:25.000 local courier service since August of 1992. Six months earlier, 358 00:26:25.359 --> 00:26:29.579 in February 1992, Konzi had received political asylum and a 359 00:26:29.640 --> 00:26:32.400 work permit from the Immigration and Naturalization Service. 360 00:26:34.200 --> 00:26:36.680 We were fortunate in this case that we had Mr. 361 00:26:36.720 --> 00:26:40.099 Konzi's prints because he had no criminal records. in the 362 00:26:40.160 --> 00:26:45.799 United States. But the immigration service here in the U.S. 363 00:26:46.380 --> 00:26:49.170 had fingerprinted him at one point because he had asked 364 00:26:49.210 --> 00:26:52.690 for asylum here in the United States. So they had 365 00:26:52.730 --> 00:26:54.809 a fingerprint card that we were able to get from them. 366 00:26:56.750 --> 00:26:59.750 Lab technicians were called in to process the forensic evidence 367 00:26:59.869 --> 00:27:03.170 through the night as the roommate told investigators more about Kanzi. 368 00:27:03.250 --> 00:27:10.490 He said Kanzi was usually quiet, But. 369 00:27:10.430 --> 00:27:13.630 When he watched television news reports, he became enraged at 370 00:27:13.690 --> 00:27:17.279 how Muslims were being treated during conflicts in Bosnia, Iraq, 371 00:27:17.339 --> 00:27:22.220 and Israel. That's when Kanzi vowed to take action. 372 00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:27.400 The roommate eventually admitted that Mr. Kanzi had told him 373 00:27:27.460 --> 00:27:30.400 that he was going to go do something big. And 374 00:27:30.440 --> 00:27:32.430 we asked him to define big, and he said, well, 375 00:27:32.450 --> 00:27:35.269 I'm not sure, but maybe a shooting of some sort. 376 00:27:35.930 --> 00:27:37.970 And he mentioned going and doing something big at the 377 00:27:38.289 --> 00:27:41.910 CIA headquarters. the White House or the Israeli embassy. 378 00:27:44.410 --> 00:27:47.279 Agents believe the roommate was not connected with the shootings. 379 00:27:50.339 --> 00:27:52.359 But he was not permitted to leave the country until 380 00:27:52.380 --> 00:27:59.009 the investigation was complete. Lab examiners compared the fingerprint lifted 381 00:27:59.049 --> 00:28:01.930 from the shell casing found at the shooting to Kanzi's 382 00:28:01.990 --> 00:28:03.750 fingerprint on file at the INS. 383 00:28:03.769 --> 00:28:06.390 They matched. They matched. 384 00:28:09.109 --> 00:28:11.930 Investigators also confirmed that the serial number of the weapon 385 00:28:11.970 --> 00:28:14.779 recovered in the apartment matched the serial number of the 386 00:28:14.839 --> 00:28:20.240 Chinese-made AK-47 purchased by Kanzi three days before the CIA killings. 387 00:28:23.630 --> 00:28:26.289 Kanzi had presented two forms of ID for a Virginia 388 00:28:26.329 --> 00:28:29.410 State Police background check, and the purchase had been approved 389 00:28:29.450 --> 00:28:36.130 within minutes. FBI lab examiners then compared bullets and shell 390 00:28:36.170 --> 00:28:40.450 casings test-fired through Kanzi's AK-47 with the bullets and shell 391 00:28:40.490 --> 00:28:44.069 casings collected from the crime scene by Fairfax Detective Jeff Miller. 392 00:28:45.990 --> 00:28:48.670 The firearms examiner was able to say that the bullets 393 00:28:48.750 --> 00:28:51.210 at the crime scene were fired from the gun that 394 00:28:51.230 --> 00:28:54.269 was collected from Kanzi's apartment. He was also able to 395 00:28:54.390 --> 00:28:58.829 examine the cartridge casings that he test-fired at the laboratory 396 00:28:59.309 --> 00:29:02.650 from the AK-47 and compare them to the cartridge casings 397 00:29:02.980 --> 00:29:04.960 that I collected at the crime scene. And he was 398 00:29:05.029 --> 00:29:07.269 able to say that the cartridge casings at the crime 399 00:29:07.289 --> 00:29:09.829 scene were in fact fired from the same weapon. 400 00:29:11.829 --> 00:29:15.809 Technicians next examined the field jacket seized from Kanzi's apartment closet. 401 00:29:17.630 --> 00:29:19.779 If this was the same coat witnesses had seen the 402 00:29:19.819 --> 00:29:22.559 shooter wearing when he fired point blank into their vehicles, 403 00:29:23.180 --> 00:29:26.099 tiny shards of glass would be embedded in its material. 404 00:29:28.000 --> 00:29:31.339 You had glass from a German car, glass from a 405 00:29:31.380 --> 00:29:34.670 Swedish car, glass from an American car, and if he 406 00:29:34.730 --> 00:29:37.069 had all three of those types of glass in his 407 00:29:37.150 --> 00:29:40.339 clothing or on his shoes, then that would be pretty 408

00:29:40.519 --> 00:29:43.059 obvious that he was, if not there, at least he 409 00:29:43.099 --> 00:29:45.720 was near the scene when it happened because he's got 410 00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:50.740 all this glass on him. They were able to find 411 00:29:50.819 --> 00:29:53.599 glass particles in his clothing that matched the type of 412 00:29:53.680 --> 00:29:55.640 glass that came from all the vehicles at the scene. 413 00:29:59.009 --> 00:30:02.849 Investigators had enough evidence to charge Mir Amal Kanzi with 414 00:30:02.910 --> 00:30:09.470 capital murder and malicious wounding. The FBI also filed charges 415 00:30:09.529 --> 00:30:13.730 of flight to avoid prosecution and offered a $ 100, 000 reward 416 00:30:13.769 --> 00:30:19.490 for information leading to Kanzi's capture. Agents fanned out to 417 00:30:19.549 --> 00:30:25.539 interview members of the Washington-area Pakistani community. They were looking 418 00:30:25.559 --> 00:30:28.640 for Kanzi's friends, acquaintances, or anyone who had come into 419 00:30:28.740 --> 00:30:30.039 contact with him. 420 00:30:31.119 --> 00:30:35.829 We learned that Mr. Kanzi had gone to a market 421 00:30:36.170 --> 00:30:39.210 in Herndon, Virginia, and the individual who ran the market 422 00:30:39.250 --> 00:30:42.670 had a connection at a travel agency. And we learned 423 00:30:42.690 --> 00:30:45.650 through this individual that Mr. Kanzi had come to him 424 00:30:47.569 --> 00:30:50.309 on the afternoon of the 25th, the day of the shooting, 425 00:30:51.650 --> 00:30:53.930 and bought a one-way ticket to Pakistan. 426 00:30:56.119 --> 00:30:58.940 The manager said that Kanzi had only one suitcase and 427 00:30:59.000 --> 00:31:01.819 needed a ride to the airport, so the manager drove 428 00:31:01.880 --> 00:31:07.930 Kanzi there himself. Agents confirmed that Kanzi boarded a flight 429 00:31:07.970 --> 00:31:11.329 to Quetta, Pakistan, a city less than 80 miles from 430 00:31:11.369 --> 00:31:20.559 the Afghanistan border. Two weeks after the shooting spree at 431 00:31:20.579 --> 00:31:25.130 the CIA headquarters, a worldwide manhunt for the killer got underway. 432 00:31:26.609 --> 00:31:29.950 The investigation would begin 8,000 miles away from the crime 433 00:31:30.009 --> 00:31:38.259 scene in the Muslim nation of Pakistan. In February 1993, 434 00:31:38.259 --> 00:31:42.500 32-year-old Pakistani Mir Emal Kanzi was wanted by the FBI 435 00:31:42.539 --> 00:31:46.549 for killing two and wounding three CIA employees on the 436 00:31:46.609 --> 00:31:53.089 highway outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Two weeks after 437 00:31:53.130 --> 00:31:57.250 the shooting, Agents learned that on January 25th, Kanzi had 438 00:31:57.289 --> 00:32:00.670 boarded a one-way flight to Quetta, Pakistan, a city less 439 00:32:00.690 --> 00:32:02.869 than 80 miles from the Afghanistan border. 440 00:32:05.289 --> 00:32:06.789 By now, he could be anywhere. 441 00:32:08.759 --> 00:32:13.299 Finding the fugitive halfway around the world presented overwhelming problems 442 00:32:13.359 --> 00:32:15.380 for FBI Special Agent Brad Garrett. 443 00:32:17.200 --> 00:32:20.720 One of the difficulties in investigating any case overseas is that, 444 00:32:20.759 --> 00:32:23.049 first of all, you have no jurisdiction to begin with. 445 00:32:23.900 --> 00:32:26.519 You're just another citizen, a U.S. citizen, traveling to a 446 00:32:26.559 --> 00:32:31.289 foreign country. So the key in catching any fugitive, obviously, 447 00:32:31.390 --> 00:32:37.190 is developing intelligence information. And you do that typically through informants. 448 00:32:38.829 --> 00:32:42.990 The FBI turned to DEA Supervisory Special Agent Gregory Lee 449 00:32:43.029 --> 00:32:48.359 for help. Since Pakistan had been a major source country 450 00:32:48.400 --> 00:32:49.519 of heroin and hashish. 451 00:32:50.089 --> 00:32:50.289 The. 452 00:32:50.230 --> 00:32:54.529 DEA already had established many reliable contacts and informants over 453 00:32:54.569 --> 00:32:59.190 the previous 10 years. At the time of the investigation, 454 00:32:59.630 --> 00:33:02.089 Agent Lee was the resident agent in charge of the 455 00:33:02.170 --> 00:33:04.670 DEA's office in Karachi, Pakistan. 456 00:33:06.799 --> 00:33:09.519 Well, the working environment there is a complete contrast to 457 00:33:09.559 --> 00:33:12.119 what an FBI agent would be used to working domestically 458 00:33:12.140 --> 00:33:15.299 in the United States. And it's like you literally fell 459 00:33:15.319 --> 00:33:17.059 out of a tree and then showed up at a 460 00:33:17.119 --> 00:33:19.039 place that is foreign to him in every way, to 461 00:33:19.059 --> 00:33:22.579 include the language, the infrastructure, how to get around, who 462 00:33:22.599 --> 00:33:26.940 to see. We could provide him with protection, with weapons, 463 00:33:27.059 --> 00:33:30.910 with anything he needed to help conduct his investigation. 464 00:33:33.470 --> 00:33:37.089 In a country of 135 million people that was politically 465 00:33:37.170 --> 00:33:41.130 volatile and had rampant corruption among officials, the FBI would 466 00:33:41.170 --> 00:33:42.089 need all the help. 467 00:33:41.970 --> 00:33:42.430 It could get. 468 00:33:45.240 --> 00:33:48.529 Agent Garrett also realized that Kanzi would have many sympathetic 469 00:33:48.569 --> 00:33:51.349 supporters who could hide him in Pakistan or even in 470 00:33:51.390 --> 00:33:52.589 neighboring Afghanistan. 471 00:33:54.690 --> 00:33:57.910 He would be respected in Afghanistan. In fact, he was 472 00:33:57.950 --> 00:34:02.589 respected in Pakistan. The CIA, in particular, and the U.S. 473 00:34:02.630 --> 00:34:05.359 government in general, is not well-liked in either one of 474 00:34:05.390 --> 00:34:08.940 those countries. And as a result, people didn't want to 475 00:34:08.980 --> 00:34:11.480 give you information about him because they thought what he 476 00:34:11.519

--> 00:34:14.639 did was, in some people's words, heroic. 477 00:34:16.659 --> 00:34:20.630 In March of 1993, the U.S. State Department declared Kanzi's 478 00:34:20.690 --> 00:34:24.650 alleged attack on CIA employees an act of terrorism and 479 00:34:24.710 --> 00:34:27.690 raised the reward for information leading to his capture to 480 00:34:27.690 --> 00:34:34.690 $ 2 million. With the groundwork established, Agent Garrett boarded a 481 00:34:34.710 --> 00:34:35.510 21-hour flight to. 482 00:34:35.469 --> 00:34:36.650 Karachi, Pakistan. 483 00:34:39.639 --> 00:34:42.860 When he landed, DEA agents had already arranged for him 484 00:34:42.900 --> 00:34:49.559 to meet his first contact, Agents distributed pamphlets and matchbooks 485 00:34:49.579 --> 00:34:54.260 with Kanzi's photo, publicizing the $ 2 million reward in English, Arabic, 486 00:34:54.300 --> 00:35:00.510 and Punjabi. The reward generated leads from as far away 487 00:35:00.570 --> 00:35:06.769 as Thailand and London. But informants in Pakistan claimed Kanzi 488 00:35:06.789 --> 00:35:10.690 was hiding among the small border towns and tribes in Afghanistan. 489 00:35:12.929 --> 00:35:18.969 Kanzi's family originally was from Afghanistan. Their family roots go 490 00:35:19.010 --> 00:35:22.849 back to Afghanistan. And keep in mind that the city 491 00:35:23.170 --> 00:35:28.070 that Kanzi is from, Quetta, Pakistan, is only about 80 492 00:35:28.070 --> 00:35:37.510 miles from Afghanistan. And so the natural link between Kanzi, Quetta, 493 00:35:38.369 --> 00:35:40.780 family heritage, and Afghanistan made sense. 494 00:35:42.980 --> 00:35:46.179 Agents traveled to Kanzi's large family home in Quetta. and 495 00:35:46.239 --> 00:35:52.800 interviewed his brothers who were wealthy landowners. They confirmed that 496 00:35:52.820 --> 00:35:55.590 he had visited them back in January, a few days 497 00:35:55.690 --> 00:36:02.610 after the shooting in Virginia. Kanzi arrived unannounced, carrying only 498 00:36:02.769 --> 00:36:08.019 one small bag. That was unusual, considering the length of 499 00:36:08.059 --> 00:36:12.579 the trip from the U.S. The brothers also thought it 500 00:36:12.619 --> 00:36:15.190 was odd that Kanzi was wearing no coat, since winter 501 00:36:15.250 --> 00:36:20.889 in Pakistan was then at its coldest. Kanzi only stayed 502 00:36:20.929 --> 00:36:23.929 for a few days, then left as quickly as he'd arrived. 503 00:36:28.719 --> 00:36:30.579 He didn't tell them where he was going, and they 504 00:36:30.619 --> 00:36:31.320 hadn't heard. 505 00:36:31.159 --> 00:36:33.059 From him since. 506 00:36:34.340 --> 00:36:36.960 A few weeks later, the brothers became aware that their 507 00:36:36.980 --> 00:36:39.460 brother Reymal was a wanted terrorist. 508 00:36:38.969 --> 00:36:39.800 From reports on CNN. 509 00:36:43.260 --> 00:36:46.039 Agents believed it was likely that Kanzi had disappeared over 510 00:36:46.059 --> 00:36:47.940 the nearby border into Afghanistan. 511 00:36:49.969 --> 00:36:51.929 We knew that it would be safer for him in 512 00:36:51.949 --> 00:36:56.829 Afghanistan because, by and large, Afghanistan, particularly back then, is 513 00:36:56.849 --> 00:36:59.869 a country that's just basically a bunch of tribes that 514 00:36:59.889 --> 00:37:03.869 control different parts of Afghanistan. At that particular time, we 515 00:37:03.889 --> 00:37:07.630 really had no central government that had control of Afghanistan. 516 00:37:07.670 --> 00:37:09.969 So it's like, who would you even go to to 517 00:37:10.030 --> 00:37:11.989 ask permission to come into Afghanistan? 518 00:37:15.670 --> 00:37:20.929 The investigation had hit a dead end. Agents returned from 519 00:37:20.989 --> 00:37:28.230 Pakistan without the fugitive. Kanzi's trail went cold for the 520 00:37:28.289 --> 00:37:31.090 next three years, so the State Department raised the reward 521 00:37:31.110 --> 00:37:33.869 for information leading to his capture to $ 3. 522 00:37:33.670 --> 00:37:34.590 5 million. 523 00:37:37.670 --> 00:37:40.550 While Agent Garrett waited in Washington for the reward money 524 00:37:40.570 --> 00:37:43.820 to flush out a viable informant, he spent time with 525 00:37:43.960 --> 00:37:51.519 FBI fingerprint experts. Since so much time had passed, he 526 00:37:51.579 --> 00:37:54.530 needed to learn how to recognize Kanzi through his fingerprints 527 00:37:54.929 --> 00:37:56.929 in order to be certain they had the right man 528 00:37:57.090 --> 00:38:02.429 if he was arrested in a remote location. The agent 529 00:38:02.489 --> 00:38:04.929 studied the unique ridges and grooves of each one of 530 00:38:05.010 --> 00:38:08.559 Kanzi's ten fingerprints that he'd given the INS years earlier. 531 00:38:08.579 --> 00:38:09.639 I see that. 532 00:38:10.559 --> 00:38:13.719 He was also taught how to fingerprint a resisting suspect 533 00:38:13.760 --> 00:38:14.900 under field conditions. 534 00:38:16.820 --> 00:38:19.519 This is a case that obviously took a large chunk 535 00:38:19.539 --> 00:38:24.079 of my life to work on, you know, and I 536 00:38:24.119 --> 00:38:28.389 guess one of my fears might be that we never 537 00:38:28.429 --> 00:38:31.289 would catch him, you know, which is entirely possible. In 538 00:38:31.329 --> 00:38:32.800 April 1997, after four years of pursuit.... 539 00:38:39.070 --> 00:38:42.610 An FBI agent at the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, 540 00:38:43.130 --> 00:38:45.969 received a call from one of their more reliable sources. 541 00:38:49.139 --> 00:38:52.239 The man claimed he had information on Kanzi's whereabouts, but 542 00:38:52.280 --> 00:38:54.360 the informant didn't want to say more over the phone. 543 00:38:57.179 --> 00:38:59.400 He told the agent to wait in a public place 544 00:38:59.500 --> 00:39:01.429 and that a second man would contact him on his 545 00:39:01.469 --> 00:39:08.309 cell phone in an hour. the crowded streets of Karachi 546

00:39:08.349 --> 00:39:11.920 would provide ample cover. If the wrong people saw the 547 00:39:11.960 --> 00:39:14.519 informant talking to an American agent, he would. 548 00:39:14.400 --> 00:39:20.920 Certainly be killed. As instructed, the agent waited on the 549 00:39:20.980 --> 00:39:21.780 street for the call. 550 00:39:24.389 --> 00:39:25.820 Yeah. 551 00:39:45.159 --> 00:39:48.039 The agent hoped his contact would have viable information that 552 00:39:48.059 --> 00:40:02.769 would finally lead the FBI to Kanzi. The informant claimed 553 00:40:02.789 --> 00:40:05.329 he not only knew where Kanzi was, but that he 554 00:40:05.369 --> 00:40:07.730 could put the fugitive in a specific hotel at a 555 00:40:07.829 --> 00:40:12.739 certain time to enable his arrest. The informant represented a 556 00:40:12.800 --> 00:40:16.199 group of Kanzi's protectors who decided the reward money was 557 00:40:16.260 --> 00:40:22.550 too great to pass up. The highest levels of the U.S. 558 00:40:22.570 --> 00:40:27.590 government were involved. The White House approved a secret arrest plan. 559 00:40:30.170 --> 00:40:33.170 The Secretary of State then secured permission from the Pakistani 560 00:40:33.210 --> 00:40:34.190 leader for U.S. 561 00:40:34.329 --> 00:40:36.030 Agents to carry out the operations. 562 00:40:38.619 --> 00:40:43.340 Pakistan is very sensitive to their image. They're very proud people. 563 00:40:43.699 --> 00:40:48.019 They don't like the idea of a Pakistani being identified 564 00:40:48.159 --> 00:40:51.909 as an international terrorist, somebody who would travel halfway around 565 00:40:51.949 --> 00:40:55.150 the world to Washington for the purpose of killing CIA employees. 566 00:40:56.309 --> 00:40:57.610 To them, he's an embarrassment. 567 00:40:58.889 --> 00:40:59.659 Gentlemen, welcome. 568 00:40:59.929 --> 00:41:02.559 Agents arrived in Pakistan with a special ops team from 569 00:41:02.599 --> 00:41:04.340 the FBI training facility in. 570 00:41:04.340 --> 00:41:06.920 Quantico, Virginia. 571 00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:09.619 They would need to extract Kanzi from a hotel room 572 00:41:09.659 --> 00:41:12.820 in a remote desert town in north-central Pakistan, where their 573 00:41:12.860 --> 00:41:14.150 informant promised he'd be. 574 00:41:14.570 --> 00:41:17.590 Getting his fingerprint is going to be key. 575 00:41:17.670 --> 00:41:20.369 Each member would be assigned a task based on a 576 00:41:20.409 --> 00:41:22.469 surveillance report of the hotel's layout. 577 00:41:23.409 --> 00:41:24.050 Kanzi is. 578 00:41:26.070 --> 00:41:27.329 Agents secured a room. 579 00:41:27.210 --> 00:41:29.849 Across from the hotel where the informant claimed Kanzi would 580 00:41:29.869 --> 00:41:35.780 be staying. They had no way to independently confirm if 581 00:41:35.840 --> 00:41:40.219 Kanzi was there. All they had was the informant's word. 582 00:41:45.159 --> 00:41:48.829 The informant told investigators that Kanzi's room was on an 583 00:41:48.949 --> 00:41:49.570 upper floor. 584 00:41:49.849 --> 00:41:50.369 Let's do that. 585 00:41:50.829 --> 00:41:51.429 That's great. 586 00:41:53.639 --> 00:41:57.159 Based on the informant's description of the interior layout, agents 587 00:41:57.179 --> 00:41:59.599 would have to first secure the lobby and then the 588 00:41:59.639 --> 00:42:03.840 stairwell before they could enter Kanzi's room. The informant added 589 00:42:03.880 --> 00:42:05.940 that the hotel did not lock its front door and 590 00:42:05.980 --> 00:42:07.840 had no security guard. 591 00:42:09.659 --> 00:42:13.619 We took that information, we developed an arrest plan, how 592 00:42:13.659 --> 00:42:15.539 we were going to enter the room, who was going 593 00:42:15.559 --> 00:42:17.300 to do hall security, what we were going to do 594 00:42:17.380 --> 00:42:20.760 once we were in the room, because it's extremely important 595 00:42:21.139 --> 00:42:26.199 when you do arrest scenarios, that everyone know exactly where 596 00:42:26.239 --> 00:42:28.280 they're going and what they're supposed to do. 597 00:42:29.780 --> 00:42:31.559 Each had their assignments. 598 00:42:31.820 --> 00:42:34.780 Once they secured the lobby and stairwell, the front agent 599 00:42:34.800 --> 00:42:37.059 would coax the fugitive out of his room by calling 600 00:42:37.099 --> 00:42:41.460 for morning prayer. They put on body armor and checked 601 00:42:41.480 --> 00:42:46.699 their weapons. To hide their paraphernalia, they wore shalwar kameezahs, 602 00:42:46.909 --> 00:42:55.559 traditional Pakistani clothing, over their Western garb. On June 15, 1997, 603 00:42:55.559 --> 00:42:59.550 the operation to arrest Mir Emal Kanzi went into action. 604 00:43:01.449 --> 00:43:04.329 The team arrived at 4 a.m., figuring there'd be fewer 605 00:43:04.349 --> 00:43:08.610 people on the street at that early hour. But when 606 00:43:08.639 --> 00:43:11.039 they tried to enter the hotel, they found the front 607 00:43:11.079 --> 00:43:11.900 door was locked. 608 00:43:13.980 --> 00:43:17.260 We can't get in. So here's four Americans dressed up 609 00:43:17.300 --> 00:43:21.300 in Pakistani garb, standing out. you know, at 4.05 in 610 00:43:21.340 --> 00:43:24.619 the morning outside this hotel. Clearly the anxiety was, you know, 611 00:43:24.699 --> 00:43:27.489 off the charts because of where you were. It's almost 612 00:43:27.550 --> 00:43:29.670 like you're in a dream a little bit, like this 613 00:43:29.769 --> 00:43:30.429 is surreal. 614 00:43:31.329 --> 00:43:34.090 To make matters worse, the street was filled with people 615 00:43:34.110 --> 00:43:36.690 who likely noticed that the Americans were clearly. 616 00:43:36.389 --> 00:43:37.010 Out of place. 617 00:43:38.130 --> 00:43:42.869 We didn't realize that this particular location was extremely hot 618 00:43:42.969 --> 00:43:45.900 in the summer. So people started to work at 3 619 00:43:45.889 --> 00:43:47.460 or 4 o'clock in the morning.

So the street was 620 00:43:47.500 --> 00:43:50.909 full of people. So it's another thing that we didn't 621 00:43:50.969 --> 00:43:51.809 calculate for. 622 00:43:52.469 --> 00:43:56.130 The informant had been wrong about the locked door. After 623 00:43:56.230 --> 00:43:59.869 four and a half years of pursuing Kanzi, the FBI 624 00:44:00.150 --> 00:44:07.090 had hit another obstacle. On June 15, 1997, an FBI 625 00:44:07.130 --> 00:44:10.980 arrest team disguised in Pakistani garb attempted to gain entry 626 00:44:11.019 --> 00:44:14.079 to a locked hotel in north-central Pakistan where they believed 627 00:44:14.179 --> 00:44:19.570 suspected terrorist Mir Amal Kanzi was hiding. But to FBI 628 00:44:19.610 --> 00:44:22.690 Special Agent Brad Garrett, it appeared that their informant had 629 00:44:22.710 --> 00:44:23.570 misled the team. 630 00:44:26.349 --> 00:44:29.389 We went up to the hotel and the initial intelligence 631 00:44:29.489 --> 00:44:32.329 was that the door would be unlocked and there'd be 632 00:44:32.349 --> 00:44:34.969 no security guard. And we get there and the door 633 00:44:35.050 --> 00:44:37.860 is locked and then within a few minutes we realize 634 00:44:37.900 --> 00:44:39.440 that there is a security guard there. 635 00:44:41.300 --> 00:44:44.820 Agents summoned the guard and pushed their way into the hotel. 636 00:44:45.800 --> 00:44:48.500 The team secured the lobby and moved quickly up the stairs. 637 00:44:50.150 --> 00:44:54.409 They hoped the informant had been correct about Kanzi's room number. 638 00:44:54.739 --> 00:45:00.699 If the fugitive was in fact there at all. When 639 00:45:00.760 --> 00:45:03.460 everyone was in place, the front agent knocked on the 640 00:45:03.519 --> 00:45:06.159 door and called for morning prayer to coax out whoever 641 00:45:06.219 --> 00:45:09.690 was on the other side of the door. If Kanzi 642 00:45:09.730 --> 00:45:15.550 was inside, he may be armed. Agents prepared for the worst. 643 00:45:20.869 --> 00:45:26.730 The door cracked open and the agents pushed forward. The 644 00:45:26.750 --> 00:45:32.179 man put up a struggle and began to scream. He 645 00:45:32.219 --> 00:45:34.199 had to be gagged so others in the hotel would 646 00:45:34.239 --> 00:45:34.960 not be awakened. 647 00:45:37.659 --> 00:45:39.539 I tell him after he comes in a little bit 648 00:45:40.059 --> 00:45:45.099 that if I take the gag off, will you promise 649 00:45:45.199 --> 00:45:48.050 not to yell anymore? And he said yes. So we 650 00:45:48.070 --> 00:45:51.460 take the gag off. He doesn't yell anymore. I asked 651 00:45:51.500 --> 00:45:54.719 him his name. He says an obscenity to me in English. 652 00:45:55.500 --> 00:45:59.480 He didn't look like his picture. He gained weight. And 653 00:45:59.519 --> 00:46:01.940 I said, you know, I'm not sure this is the 654 00:46:01.980 --> 00:46:02.460 right guy. 655 00:46:03.760 --> 00:46:06.639 The agent hoped the man's fingerprint would match prints Kanzi 656 00:46:06.659 --> 00:46:12.449 had provided for the INS six years earlier. He inked 657 00:46:12.469 --> 00:46:15.409 the suspect's thumb and compared it to Kanzi's known thumbprint. 658 00:46:17.050 --> 00:46:27.010 What are you doing? The prints matched. After more than. 659 00:46:26.949 --> 00:46:30.769 Four years and 8,000 miles, the FBI finally had suspected 660 00:46:30.849 --> 00:46:37.449 terrorist Mir Amal Kanzi in custody. But their mission was 661 00:46:37.510 --> 00:46:42.670 by no means complete. Not only did they have to 662 00:46:42.710 --> 00:46:45.949 get Kanzi and themselves out of the hotel safely, but 663 00:46:46.050 --> 00:46:52.969 also out of Pakistan altogether. DEA Supervisory Special Agent Gregory 664 00:46:53.010 --> 00:46:56.429 Lee assisted the FBI with logistical support in Pakistan. 665 00:46:58.750 --> 00:47:01.389 You've got a guy in custody now, and you're in 666 00:47:01.409 --> 00:47:05.809 a foreign land. You're about 8,000 miles from home. You're 667 00:47:05.849 --> 00:47:09.889 out in what's essentially the high desert that would be 668 00:47:09.949 --> 00:47:13.510 Death Valley here. And you're trying to get this guy 669 00:47:13.809 --> 00:47:16.510 now from Pakistan back to the United States. 670 00:47:19.030 --> 00:47:22.940 Americans holding a Pakistani citizen captive in his own country 671 00:47:22.980 --> 00:47:23.639 was dangerous. 672 00:47:26.800 --> 00:47:28.719 Agents drove the international. 673 00:47:28.219 --> 00:47:31.400 Fugitive to a waiting helicopter and flew him to Islamabad, 674 00:47:33.179 --> 00:47:39.489 where permission for extradition was granted the next day. FBI 675 00:47:39.530 --> 00:47:43.050 headquarters in Washington was informed with a code phrase, the 676 00:47:43.110 --> 00:47:48.599 package has been delivered. the arrest team flew Kanzi out 677 00:47:48.619 --> 00:47:49.579 of Pakistan on. 678 00:47:49.539 --> 00:47:52.000 An Air Force plane. 679 00:47:52.239 --> 00:47:54.510 To avoid landing in a foreign country, the plane was 680 00:47:54.570 --> 00:47:57.849 refueled in midair, so Kanzi could not ask for asylum 681 00:47:57.889 --> 00:48:03.570 before facing justice in the United States. During the 21-hour 682 00:48:03.630 --> 00:48:07.449 nonstop flight, Kanzi confided that he'd been in Afghanistan for 683 00:48:07.489 --> 00:48:08.849 almost the entire. 684 00:48:08.489 --> 00:48:10.170 Four years while he was on the run. 685 00:48:11.929 --> 00:48:14.650 He also claimed responsibility for the shooting in front of 686 00:48:14.750 --> 00:48:20.079 CIA headquarters. As a political statement against the CIA of 687 00:48:20.099 --> 00:48:23.440 the United States, he decided to kill workers before they 688 00:48:23.500 --> 00:48:27.820 pulled into the heavily guarded entrance. He explained that he 689 00:48:27.860 --> 00:48:32.530 didn't shoot any women because Islam forbids it. He said 690 00:48:32.570 --> 00:48:34.699 that after the shooting, he was surprised that he was 691 00:48:34.719 --> 00:48:38.650 still alive. So he drove to a nearby park, went 692 00:48:38.690 --> 00:48:41.510 to lunch, then bought a plane ticket to Pakistan. 693 00:48:43.710 --> 00:48:45.929 I said, well, why did you quit shooting? Because you 694 00:48:46.030 --> 00:48:48.840 had told us earlier that you had all this ammunition 695 00:48:48.960 --> 00:48:50.900 on you and that we had found all this ammunition 696 00:48:50.920 --> 00:48:54.730 in your apartment. And he said that he ran out 697 00:48:54.769 --> 00:48:55.630 of people to shoot. 698 00:48:57.449 --> 00:49:00.050 Affirming that his statement had been given freely and willingly, 699 00:49:00.449 --> 00:49:06.880 Conzi signed his confession. After arriving in the U.S., a 700 00:49:06.920 --> 00:49:12.619 chopper transported the prisoner to a secure location. Under heavy security, 701 00:49:13.039 --> 00:49:16.039 agents delivered Conzi to the Fairfax County Police to face 702 00:49:16.079 --> 00:49:17.380 the murder and assault charges. 703 00:49:19.860 --> 00:49:19.949 Fair. 704 00:49:20.360 --> 00:49:22.710 County Detective Jeff Miller remembers that day. 705 00:49:24.550 --> 00:49:27.900 Having him... captured and brought back to the United States 706 00:49:28.440 --> 00:49:31.739 showed to the whole rest of the world that the 707 00:49:31.800 --> 00:49:36.460 United States, the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency is not 708 00:49:36.519 --> 00:49:39.199 going to just let this sort of thing lie and 709 00:49:39.239 --> 00:49:42.059 not do something about it. No matter how long it takes, 710 00:49:42.579 --> 00:49:45.789 no matter where these kinds of people may hide, the 711 00:49:45.829 --> 00:49:48.789 United States is going to do their very best to 712 00:49:48.829 --> 00:49:52.090 try and track these people down and bring them back 713 00:49:52.130 --> 00:49:52.690 to justice. 714 00:49:54.500 --> 00:49:58.110 Kanzi was found guilty of murder, malicious shooting, and using 715 00:49:58.150 --> 00:50:02.150 a firearm in the commission of a felony. He was 716 00:50:02.190 --> 00:50:07.269 sentenced to death and is scheduled for execution in 2002. 717 00:50:08.929 --> 00:50:11.820 In the wake of the shootings, memorials to the slain 718 00:50:11.880 --> 00:50:15.599 victims were established on Highway 123, where they fell to 719 00:50:15.619 --> 00:50:20.559 the gunman's bullets. The CIA tightened its security at the 720 00:50:20.599 --> 00:50:23.750 Langley compound and at all of its offices around the 721 00:50:23.789 --> 00:50:28.949 world The successful investigation would prove to be another in 722 00:50:28.969 --> 00:50:31.630 the long line of battles against terror. 723 00:50:31.630 --> 00:50:56.119 © transcript Emily Beynon