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On January 25, 1993, outside of CIA Headquarters campus (now known as the George Bush Center for Intelligence) in Langley, Virginia, Pakistani national Mir Aimal Kansi shot and killed two CIA employees in their cars as they were waiting at a stoplight and wounded three others.[1]

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  1. 80 relations: Afghanistan, AK-47, AT&T Corporation, Ballistics, Balochistan, Pakistan, Capital punishment in the United States, Central Intelligence Agency, Chantilly, Virginia, CIA Memorial Wall, CNN, Confession, Courier, Covert operation, Datsun, Days Inn, Dera Ghazi Khan, Durand Line, Duxbury, Massachusetts, Eastern Time Zone, Fairfax County, Virginia, FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal government of the United States, Fingerprint, Foreign policy of the United States, Forging, Frontal lobe, George Bush Center for Intelligence, Ghost Wars, Green card, Greensville Correctional Center, Inter-Services Intelligence, Islamabad, Jarratt, Virginia, Karachi, Kashmiris, Langley, Virginia, Lethal injection, Life imprisonment, List of diplomatic missions of Israel, List of diplomatic missions of the United States, List of incidents of political violence in Washington, D.C., Lockheed C-141 Starlifter, Manhunt (law enforcement), Maryland, Mass shootings in the United States, Massachusetts Route 6A, McDonald's, Miami, Mir Aimal Kansi, ... Expand index (30 more) »

  2. 1990s crimes in Virginia
  3. 1993 in Virginia
  4. 1993 in international relations
  5. 1993 mass shootings in the United States
  6. Attacks on government buildings and structures in the United States
  7. Deaths by firearm in Virginia
  8. January 1993 crimes in the United States
  9. Mass shootings in Virginia
  10. Murder in Virginia
  11. Terrorist incidents in Virginia
  12. Terrorist incidents in the United States in 1993

Afghanistan

Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.

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AK-47

The AK-47, officially known as the Avtomat Kalashnikova (also known as the Kalashnikov or just AK), is an assault rifle that is chambered for the 7.62×39mm cartridge.

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AT&T Corporation

AT&T Corporation, commonly referred to as AT&T, an abbreviation for its former name, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, was an American telecommunications company that provided voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications and professional services to businesses, consumers, and government agencies.

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Ballistics

Ballistics is the field of mechanics concerned with the launching, flight behaviour and impact effects of projectiles, especially ranged weapon munitions such as bullets, unguided bombs, rockets or the like; the science or art of designing and accelerating projectiles so as to achieve a desired performance.

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Balochistan, Pakistan

Balochistan (بلۏچستان; بلوچستان) is a province of Pakistan.

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Capital punishment in the United States

In the United States, capital punishment (killing a person as punishment for allegedly committing a crime) is a legal penalty throughout the country at the federal level, in 27 states, and in American Samoa.

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Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.

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Chantilly, Virginia

Chantilly is a census-designated place (CDP) in western Fairfax County, Virginia.

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CIA Memorial Wall

The Memorial Wall is a memorial at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia. CIA headquarters shooting and CIA Memorial Wall are Central Intelligence Agency.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

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Confession

A confession is a statement – made by a person or by a group of people – acknowledging some personal fact that the person (or the group) would ostensibly prefer to keep hidden.

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Courier

A courier is a person or organization that delivers a message, package or letter from one place or person to another place or person.

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Covert operation

A covert operation or undercover operation is a military or police operation involving a covert agent or troops acting under an assumed cover to conceal the identity of the party responsible.

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Datsun

Datsun was a Japanese automobile manufacturer brand owned by Nissan.

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Days Inn

Days Inn is a hotel chain headquartered in the United States.

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Dera Ghazi Khan

Dera Ghazi Khan (Urdu), abbreviated as D.G. Khan, is a city in the southwestern part of Punjab, Pakistan.

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Durand Line

The Durand Line (د ډیورنډ کرښه; ڈیورنڈ لائن; خط دیورند), also known as the Afghanistan–Pakistan border, is a international border between Afghanistan and Pakistan in South Asia.

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Duxbury, Massachusetts

Duxbury (alternative older spelling: "Duxborough") is a historic seaside town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.

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Fairfax County, Virginia

Fairfax County, officially the County of Fairfax, is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives

The FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives is a most wanted list maintained by the United States's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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Federal government of the United States

The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) is the national government of the United States, a federal republic located primarily in North America, composed of 50 states, five major self-governing territories, several island possessions, and the federal district/national capital of Washington, D.C., where most of the federal government is based.

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Fingerprint

A fingerprint is an impression left by the friction ridges of a human finger.

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Foreign policy of the United States

The officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States of America, including all the bureaus and offices in the United States Department of State, as mentioned in the Foreign Policy Agenda of the Department of State, are "to build and sustain a more democratic, secure, and prosperous world for the benefit of the American people and the international community".

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Forging

Forging is a manufacturing process involving the shaping of metal using localized compressive forces.

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Frontal lobe

The frontal lobe is the largest of the four major lobes of the brain in mammals, and is located at the front of each cerebral hemisphere (in front of the parietal lobe and the temporal lobe).

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George Bush Center for Intelligence

The George Bush Center for Intelligence is the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency, located in the unincorporated community of Langley in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, near Washington, D.C. The headquarters is a conglomeration of the Original Headquarters Building (OHB) and the New Headquarters Building (NHB) and sits on a total of of land. CIA headquarters shooting and George Bush Center for Intelligence are Central Intelligence Agency.

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Ghost Wars

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, abbreviated as Ghost Wars, is a book written by Steve Coll, published in 2004 by Penguin Press.

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Green card

A green card, known officially as a permanent resident card, is an identity document which shows that a person has permanent residency in the United States.

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Greensville Correctional Center

Greensville Correctional Center is a prison facility located in unincorporated Greensville County, Virginia, near Jarratt.

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Inter-Services Intelligence

The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI; بین الخدماتی استخبارات|bayn al-khidmati estekhbarat) is the largest and best-known component of the Pakistani intelligence community.

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Islamabad

Islamabad (اسلام‌آباد|translit.

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Jarratt, Virginia

Jarratt is a town in Greensville and Sussex counties in the U.S. state of Virginia.

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Karachi

Karachi (کراچی) is the capital city of the Pakistani province of Sindh.

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Kashmiris

Kashmiris are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group speaking the Kashmiri language and originating from the Kashmir Valley, which is today located in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir.

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Langley, Virginia

Langley is an unincorporated community in the census-designated place of McLean in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.

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Lethal injection

Lethal injection is the practice of injecting one or more drugs into a person (typically a barbiturate, paralytic, and potassium solution) for the express purpose of causing rapid death.

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Life imprisonment

Life imprisonment is any sentence of imprisonment for a crime under which convicted criminals are to remain in prison for the rest of their natural lives (or until pardoned, paroled, or commuted to a fixed term).

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List of diplomatic missions of Israel

This is a list of diplomatic missions of Israel, excluding honorary consulates.

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List of diplomatic missions of the United States

The United States has the second most active diplomatic posts of any country in the world after the People's Republic of China, including 271 bilateral posts (embassies and consulates) in 173 countries as well as 11 permanent missions to international organizations and seven other posts (as of November 2023).

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List of incidents of political violence in Washington, D.C.

There have been numerous incidents of political violence in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, as well as in the greater Washington Metropolitan area.

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Lockheed C-141 Starlifter

The Lockheed C-141 Starlifter is a retired military strategic airlifter that served with the Military Air Transport Service (MATS), its successor organization the Military Airlift Command (MAC), and finally the Air Mobility Command (AMC) of the United States Air Force (USAF).

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Manhunt (law enforcement)

In law enforcement, a manhunt is an extensive and thorough search for a wanted and dangerous fugitive involving the use of police units, technology, and help from the public.

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Maryland

Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.

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Mass shootings in the United States

Mass shootings are incidents involving multiple victims of firearm related violence.

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Massachusetts Route 6A

Massachusetts Route 6A is the state road for two sections formerly known as U.S. Route 6 (US 6) on Cape Cod.

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McDonald's

McDonald's Corporation is an American multinational fast food chain, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States.

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Miami

Miami, officially the City of Miami, is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida.

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Mir Aimal Kansi

Aimal Kansi (born 10 February or 22 October 1964 – 14 November 2002) was a Pakistani national who was convicted of the 1993 shootings at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. CIA headquarters shooting and Mir Aimal Kansi are Pakistan–United States relations.

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Mosque

A mosque, also called a masjid, is a place of worship for Muslims.

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Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse committed with the necessary intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisdiction.

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Muslims

Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.

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Neurology

Neurology (from νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the nervous system, which comprises the brain, the spinal cord and the peripheral nerves.

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Neuropsychiatry

Neuropsychiatry is a branch of medicine that deals with psychiatry as it relates to neurology, in an effort to understand and attribute behavior to the interaction of neurobiology and social psychology factors.

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Ormara

Ormara (Balochi and اورماڑا), is a town in Gwadar District in the Balochistan province of Pakistan.

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Pakistan

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.

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Palestinians

Palestinians (al-Filasṭīniyyūn) or Palestinian people (label), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs (label), are an Arab ethnonational group native to Palestine.

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Partition of India

The Partition of India in 1947 was the change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in the Indian subcontinent and the creation of two independent dominions in South Asia: India and Pakistan.

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Pashtuns

Pashtuns (translit), also known as Pakhtuns, or Pathans, are a nomadic, pastoral, Eastern Iranic ethnic group primarily residing in northwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan. They historically were also referred to as Afghans until the 1970s after the term's meaning had become a demonym for members of all ethnic groups in Afghanistan.

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Psychiatrist

A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry.

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Punjab, Pakistan

Punjab (abbr. PB) is a province of Pakistan.

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Quetta

Quetta (کوئٹہ, ko'eṭa) is the capital and largest city of the Pakistani province of Balochistan.

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Rendition (law)

In law, rendition is a "surrender" or "handing over" of persons or property, particularly from one jurisdiction to another.

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Reston, Virginia

Reston is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, and a principal city of both Northern Virginia and the Washington metropolitan area.

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Richard Restak

Richard Restak (born 1942) is an American neurologist, neuropsychiatrist, author and professor.

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Semi-automatic rifle

A semi-automatic rifle is an autoloading rifle that fires a single cartridge with each pull of the trigger and uses part of the fired cartridge's energy to eject the case and load another cartridge into the chamber.

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Shahid

Shahid (شهيدة, شُهَدَاء) denotes a martyr in Islam. The word is used frequently in the Quran in the generic sense of "witness" but only once in the sense of "martyr" (i.e. one who dies for his faith); the latter sense acquires wider usage in the hadith.

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Station wagon

A station wagon (US, also wagon) or estate car (UK, also estate) is an automotive body-style variant of a sedan with its roof extended rearward over a shared passenger/cargo volume with access at the back via a third or fifth door (the liftgate, or tailgate), instead of a trunk/boot lid.

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Surname

A surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family.

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Task force

A task force (TF) is a unit or formation established to work on a single defined task or activity.

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Terrorism in the United States

In the United States, a common definition of terrorism is the systematic or threatened use of violence in order to create a general climate of fear to intimidate a population or government and thereby effect political, religious, or ideological change.

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Thailand

Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.

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Type 56 assault rifle

The Type 56 (literally; "Assault Rifle, Model of 1956") is a Chinese 7.62×39mm automatic rifle, a licensed derivative of the Soviet-designed AK-47 (specifically Type 3 variant).

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Vehicle registration plate

A vehicle registration plate, also known as a number plate (British, Indian and Australian English) or license plate (American English) or licence plate (Canadian English), is a metal or plastic plate attached to a motor vehicle or trailer for official identification purposes.

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Virginia State Route 123

State Route 123 (SR 123) or Virginia State Route 123 (VA 123) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia.

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Walk-in agent

A walk-in agent is an individual who voluntarily offers to conduct espionage.

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White House

The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States.

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WTTG

WTTG (channel 5) is a television station in Washington, D.C., serving as the market's Fox network outlet.

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2010 Pentagon shooting

On March 4, 2010, John Patrick Bedell shot and wounded two Pentagon police officers at a security checkpoint in the Pentagon station of the Washington Metro rapid transit system in Arlington County, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C., United States. CIA headquarters shooting and 2010 Pentagon shooting are Attacks on government buildings and structures in the United States, deaths by firearm in Virginia and terrorist incidents in Virginia.

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See also

1990s crimes in Virginia

1993 in Virginia

1993 in international relations

1993 mass shootings in the United States

Attacks on government buildings and structures in the United States

Deaths by firearm in Virginia

January 1993 crimes in the United States

Mass shootings in Virginia

Murder in Virginia

Terrorist incidents in Virginia

Terrorist incidents in the United States in 1993

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_headquarters_shooting

Also known as 1993 CIA shootings, 1993 Shootings at CIA Headquarters, Aimal kansi, Amal Kansi, CIA HQ attack, Lansing Bennett, Mir Amir Kasi.

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