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Prenote: while many beghairat sold out mentally colonized traitors will posture themselves genuine Pashtuns, they moan and salivate over the appendages of Imperialist masters and talk about a CIA agent being hero of Pashtuns for killing 2 CIA agents, trying their hardest to create this illusion that the CIA is rescuing Pashtuns from the ISI; when the CIA invented, directed and funded all aspects of the ISI; there was a real Pashtun who knew who the real evil was and had sought to cut off it's head. He failed but his bravery and conviction shows who the real Pashtun heros are. certainly not the beghairat, deen farosh, ghairat farosh, mentally colonized slaves of ferangyan.
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JARRATT, Va. (Reuters) - Mir Aimal Kasi, a Pakistani who murdered two CIA employees in 1993 in revenge for U.S. policy in the Middle East, is set to die on Thursday, as protesters in his homeland turned out in sympathy and burned the American flag.
The only hope for Kasi, also known in Pakistan as Kansi, was a reprieve from the U.S. Supreme Court or Virginia Gov. Mark Warner. Neither are thought likely to stop Kasi from being put to death by lethal injection in the death chamber at the Greensville Correctional Center.
He was sentenced to die for the killings of Frank Darling, 28, and Lansing Bennett, 66. They were killed with an AK-47 assault rifle as they sat in their cars at a stoplight outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, on Jan. 25, 1993.
Kasi's mother and the Pakistani Embassy have asked Warner to show mercy in a clemency petition now being studied by the governor's office.
Iqbal Jafree, a Pakistani barrister who had attempted to assist in the post-trial appeals, said Kasi's family had picked out a grave for Kasi in his hometown of Quetta.
"The Pakistan government and the government of the United States have let him down. He should have been properly extradited," Jafree said.
Ahead of the execution, about 150 members of Kasi's tribe in Pakistan marched through the streets of Quetta, not far from the border with Afghanistan, chanting "Aimal is our hero" and burned a U.S. flag.
LIFE TERM SOUGHT
Other activists protested in the central town of Multan and called for the sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment.
Three other people, two with the CIA and a telephone company employee, were wounded in Kasi's rampage, during which he fired 11 bullets into five cars.
Kasi, who is not believed to have had any links with terrorist organizations, has let it be known through his lawyers that he "does not want anybody hurt in his name or as a result of his execution."
But the State Department nevertheless warned Americans last week the execution could trigger retaliatory attacks on U.S. interests overseas.
Four Americans were murdered by an extremist group in Pakistan during Kasi's 1997 trial.
Asked about the execution, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said: "Our thoughts and prayers go to the families of the victims. This is a criminal justice matter, and the decision of the jury is being carried out."
As a precaution, the Virginia State Police said heightened, but unspecified, security was provided at the prison and at the state capitol in Richmond ahead of the execution.
Defense witnesses contended Kasi suffered from brain damage and mental illness, and should have received life in prison instead of the death sentence.
But an FBI agent testified that Kasi confessed he wanted to punish the U.S. government for bombing Iraq, for what he saw as its involvement in the killing of Palestinians and because the CIA was too deeply involved in the internal affairs of Muslim countries.
Protesters in Pakistan said Kasi's actions were understandable.
"Aimal is not a terrorist," tribal elder Ibrahim Kansi told demonstrators. "His action was a reaction to what was happening to Muslims in Chechnya and Palestine."
A native of Karachi, Pakistan, Kasi had been living in Reston, Virginia. He flew to Pakistan the day after the shootings and was not found for four years.
Authorities said he spent most of that time in Afghanistan, hiding in and around Kandahar, which was later to emerge as a stronghold of the militant Taliban movement linked to Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network.
The FBI arrested Kasi in his hotel room in central Pakistan on June 15, 1997, and brought him back to the United States to stand trial.
Kasi's brother, Naseebullah Khan, told Reuters that Kasi had called his mother on Thursday.
"He asked his mother to have courage," Khan said. "He told her to give his wishes to the motherland and to the people of Pakistan and asked them to pray for him."
The last meal requested by Kasi consisted of fried rice, bananas, boiled eggs and wheat bread, said a spokesman for the Virginia department of Corrections.
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JARRATT, Va. (Reuters) - Mir Aimal Kasi, a Pakistani who murdered two CIA employees in 1993 in revenge for U.S. policy in the Middle East, is set to die on Thursday, as protesters in his homeland turned out in sympathy and burned the American flag.
The only hope for Kasi, also known in Pakistan as Kansi, was a reprieve from the U.S. Supreme Court or Virginia Gov. Mark Warner. Neither are thought likely to stop Kasi from being put to death by lethal injection in the death chamber at the Greensville Correctional Center.
He was sentenced to die for the killings of Frank Darling, 28, and Lansing Bennett, 66. They were killed with an AK-47 assault rifle as they sat in their cars at a stoplight outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, on Jan. 25, 1993.
Kasi's mother and the Pakistani Embassy have asked Warner to show mercy in a clemency petition now being studied by the governor's office.
Iqbal Jafree, a Pakistani barrister who had attempted to assist in the post-trial appeals, said Kasi's family had picked out a grave for Kasi in his hometown of Quetta.
"The Pakistan government and the government of the United States have let him down. He should have been properly extradited," Jafree said.
Ahead of the execution, about 150 members of Kasi's tribe in Pakistan marched through the streets of Quetta, not far from the border with Afghanistan, chanting "Aimal is our hero" and burned a U.S. flag.
LIFE TERM SOUGHT
Other activists protested in the central town of Multan and called for the sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment.
Three other people, two with the CIA and a telephone company employee, were wounded in Kasi's rampage, during which he fired 11 bullets into five cars.
Kasi, who is not believed to have had any links with terrorist organizations, has let it be known through his lawyers that he "does not want anybody hurt in his name or as a result of his execution."
But the State Department nevertheless warned Americans last week the execution could trigger retaliatory attacks on U.S. interests overseas.
Four Americans were murdered by an extremist group in Pakistan during Kasi's 1997 trial.
Asked about the execution, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said: "Our thoughts and prayers go to the families of the victims. This is a criminal justice matter, and the decision of the jury is being carried out."
As a precaution, the Virginia State Police said heightened, but unspecified, security was provided at the prison and at the state capitol in Richmond ahead of the execution.
Defense witnesses contended Kasi suffered from brain damage and mental illness, and should have received life in prison instead of the death sentence.
But an FBI agent testified that Kasi confessed he wanted to punish the U.S. government for bombing Iraq, for what he saw as its involvement in the killing of Palestinians and because the CIA was too deeply involved in the internal affairs of Muslim countries.
Protesters in Pakistan said Kasi's actions were understandable.
"Aimal is not a terrorist," tribal elder Ibrahim Kansi told demonstrators. "His action was a reaction to what was happening to Muslims in Chechnya and Palestine."
A native of Karachi, Pakistan, Kasi had been living in Reston, Virginia. He flew to Pakistan the day after the shootings and was not found for four years.
Authorities said he spent most of that time in Afghanistan, hiding in and around Kandahar, which was later to emerge as a stronghold of the militant Taliban movement linked to Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network.
The FBI arrested Kasi in his hotel room in central Pakistan on June 15, 1997, and brought him back to the United States to stand trial.
Kasi's brother, Naseebullah Khan, told Reuters that Kasi had called his mother on Thursday.
"He asked his mother to have courage," Khan said. "He told her to give his wishes to the motherland and to the people of Pakistan and asked them to pray for him."
The last meal requested by Kasi consisted of fried rice, bananas, boiled eggs and wheat bread, said a spokesman for the Virginia department of Corrections.
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