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Kansi's lawyers fail to have prosecutor removed
August 18, 1997
Web posted at: 10:25 p.m. EDT (0225 GMT)FAIRFAX, Virginia (CNN) -- Lawyers for Mir Aimal Kansi, the Pakistani man accused of killing two CIA employees, failed Monday to have the prosecutor removed from the case for making remarks that caused violent protests in Pakistan.
A Circuit Court judge rejected a motion to have Robert Horan dismissed for the controversial remarks he made in a television interview.
The Pakistani government earlier this month demanded and received an apology from the U.S. State Department for Horan's statement: "I'm sure the people over there will turn in their mothers for $20,000, let alone $2 million."
Horan apologized to the Pakistan Embassy in Washington, but insisted he was referring not to the Pakistani public but only to "those few outlaws who helped hide Kansi."
Judge J. Howe Brown ruled there was no evidence that Horan is prejudiced, but he did say that Horan's comments were "not very tactful, and may have created a problem for the U.S. that can be handled by the State Department. But that has nothing to do with this case."
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