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Killer Befriended His Captor
Thursday, November 14, 2002
(6:31 PM ET) (23:31 GMT)
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FBI agents chased Kasi around the world before capturing the man who had a $2 million price tag on his head. Kasi used an AK-47 to kill and wound workers around 8 a.m. on January 25, 1993 as they sat, waiting in their cars at a red light to turn into the CIA entrance. His fingerprints were on bullet casings found at the scene of the bloodbath.

JARRAT, Va. -- CNN
Almost a decade after he went on a shooting rampage outside CIA headquarters, Mir Aimal Kasi will be put to death Thursday for killing two CIA employees.

Brad Garrett, the FBI agent who led a four-year manhunt for Kasi, has stayed in touch with him, and will attend his execution.

Over the five years since his capture, Kasi has sent Garrett a letter about once a month and the agent said he wrote back every four to six months.

Garrett revealed that Kasi seemed to know he was a condemned man as soon as members of the FBI's hostage rescue team captured him during a 4 a.m. raid on a small hotel in a Pakistani town bordering Afghanistan on June 15, 1997.

"We get into this huge tussle with him. He's screaming at the top of his lungs and we end up gagging him at some point," Garrett recalled.

"We got him out of the hotel and put him in a vehicle," he said. "He leaned over to me and said, 'You're going to take me back to America and execute me, aren't you?' And I said that's a possibility."
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Dan