Pakistani Sought in Shootings Near CIA : Crime: Warrants are issued after a roommate reports the man missing and the rifle apparently used in the attack is found inside his apartment.

WASHINGTON — The FBI and suburban Virginia police issued warrants and launched a worldwide manhunt Tuesday for a 28-year-old Pakistani national suspected of last month’s random shootings outside CIA headquarters that left two agency employees dead and three other people hospitalized.

Authorities identified the suspect as Mir Aimal Kansi of nearby Reston, Va., who worked for a local courier service. Officials recovered from his apartment an AK-47 assault rifle that apparently was used in the Jan. 25 shootings. But they said they do not know a motive for the attack.

“As far as we can determine, there is no definite link between the suspect and the agency,” Fairfax County Police Chief Michael Young told reporters. CIA spokesman David Christian declined to comment on whether officials believe that Kansi might be part of a terrorist organization, saying only: “We are pleased with this development and appreciate the work of the FBI and Fairfax County (Va.) police.”

Robert Bryant, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Washington field office, said at a hastily called news briefing that “a worldwide manhunt is being launched” to apprehend Kansi. The FBI immediately placed him on its “10 Most Wanted” list.

Fairfax County Police Capt. David Franklin said: “We have no reason to believe that he has left (the country), but we have no reason to believe he hasn’t.” Police released photographs of the suspect and said they would circulate them to law enforcement agencies everywhere.

The Chinese-made assault rifle, purchased three days before the shootings at a gun store in Chantilly, Va., was seized in a raid on Kansi’s apartment Monday night. Ballistics tests showed that it had been used in the attack on automobiles waiting to turn into the CIA complex, authorities said.

Young said that Kansi’s roommate, whom he refused to identify, filed a missing-person report on the suspect Jan. 28. Officers then searched the apartment with the roommate’s permission and recovered the rifle.

Faixfax County police issued an arrest warrant charging the suspect with capital murder in the shootings. The FBI said Kansi also was being charged in a separate federal warrant with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.

Authorities said that Kansi had been a legal resident of the United States but that they could provide no other immediate information on him.

The morning rush-hour attack perplexed authorities because of the manner in which it was carried out. A suspect matching Kansi’s description suddenly emerged from a light brown station wagon and methodically and wordlessly began shooting into cars as he walked between two lanes of vehicles outside the sprawling complex in suburban Langley, Va.

CIA analyst Frank Darling, 28, was killed as he sat in his blue Volkswagen. Three bullets penetrated the front windshield, and one apparently tore through the rear hatchback window. His wife was in the car but was uninjured.

Lansing Bennett, 66, a physician employed by the CIA, was slain as his blue Saab 900S sat idling next to Darling’s vehicle. The front window on the driver’s side was shattered.

Two other full-time agency employees and an employee of a CIA contractor suffered gunshot wounds and were hospitalized. But all three have since been released.

Police said the attack was the first of its kind on or near the fortress-like CIA compound south of the Potomac River about six miles from downtown Washington.