Mir Aimal Kansi (or Mir Qazi) was born in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan, either on February 10 or October 22 1964, or January 1, 1967.[1] He entered the US 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.[2] He stayed with a Kashmiri friend, Zahed Mir,[3] in his Reston, Virginia, apartment, and invested in a courier firm for which he also worked as a driver.[4] 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 [were] mostly people who work for CIA."[2]