In an exclusive interview to bbcurdu.com Aimal Khan Kansi, the Pakistani convicted of the 1993 killing of two CIA agents, has said he has no regrets and would still do things the same way if given a second chance.

Hours before his scheduled execution, Kansi (38) said he was denied a fair trial and that he had little hope that his death sentence would be commuted to life imprisonment: "I did not get a fair trial. I had been tried and convicted by the media even before the case opened," he said in a telephone interview from his high-security Virginia cell, according to a press release from the BBC.

Kansi, who was once on the FBI's most wanted list with a reward of $ 2 million for his capture, said he launched a legal battle for clemency because "Islam advocates preservation of life," but that he had very little hope of winning it.

He was executed by lethal injection early Friday morning local time after the Supreme Court and the governor of Virginia turned down his appeal.

Kansi said he was driven by anger at the United States' policies towards Muslims across the world. "I am an emotional man...I have no regrets for what I did. I conveyed my message to the US that its officials would not be safe in their homes if it continues to target Palestinians through its backing of Israel," The BBC statement, quoting from the interview, stated.

Kansi said he chose to target CIA employees as "the agency plays a major role in shaping US policy ... and because I could target them conveniently."

He denied charges that he himself or his father had worked for the CIA and that he had killed the CIA operatives to avenge his father's death.

Asked if he had ever had contact with Osama bin Laden, Kansi said he shook hands with bin Laden in Kandahar once, but never knew him. "I mostly stayed in the south of Afghanistan to avoid detection, and once the Taliban came to power, I moved to Kabul. I had a few friends among them," he said.

He also rejected claims that Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari, then President of Pakistan, or his relatives played a role in his arrest. "There is absolutely no truth in the allegations... They are innocent."

Kansi was arrested in 1997 from Dera Ghazi Khan in the Punjab in a midnight swoop by the FBI and Pakistani security agencies after people he knew lured him back from Afghanistan, saying they wanted him to help broker a business deal.

Kansi claimed he was "abducted" from Pakistan in "contravention of Pakistani and international laws": "I was never produced before a court of law in Pakistan. I was kept in custody in a cell in the United States embassy for three days before being flown to the US... I am very disappointed with the Pakistani government which should have intervened in my case, but they are never able to take a stand against the US," he said.