The Search for Aimal Kasi

An interesting summary/excerpt from Ronald Kessler's The CIA at War on the FBI and CIA's four year hunt for Aimal Kasi over at CommandPosts.com.  Kasi was the Pakistani immigrant who murdered two CIA employees and wounded three others at a traffic stop as they waited to enter CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, on January 25, 1993.  He was finally captured in Deri Ghazi Khan, Pakistan. on June 15, 1997.

I've been asked about this case several times while doing book talks, and have to explain that by definition it wasn't a "strategic" manhunt since no uniformed military forces were involved.  Thus, it is an international manhunt more akin to the pursuit of Ramzi Youssef (who was also arrested in Pakistan back in a seemingly more simple time) than the strategic manhunt for Osama bin Laden. Nevertheless, it is a fascinating case that highlights the importance of local cooperation and the tradeoffs of rewards when pursuing fugitives.

Aimal Kasi killed two and wounded three CIA employees in Virginia on this day in 1993.  He was finally captured in Pakistan on June 15, 1997 after a four-year manhunt by the FBI and CIA.