Background
Aimal Qazi (or Mir Aimal Kasi) was born in Quetta, Pakistan, either on February 10, 1964 or January 1, 1967. He entered the United States in 1991, taking a substantial sum of cash he had inherited on the death of his father in 1989. He travelled on forged papers he had purchased in Karachi, Pakistan, altering his last name to "Kansi", and later bought a fake green card in Miami. He stayed with a Kashmiri friend, Zahed Mir, in his Reston, Virginia apartment, and invested in a courier firm for which he also worked as a driver. This work would be decisive in his choice of target: "I used to pass this area almost every day and knew these two left-turning lanes mostly people who work for CIA."
According to Kasi, his first thoughts of an attack came after the purchase of a Chinese-made AK-47 from a Chantilly gun store. The plan soon became "more important than any other thing to ."
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