Related as in by blood? Do you think they were killed to send a warning to other government translators and not because they were Christian converts?
I'm not sure yet- I was hoping to get more insight from any links people may have kept.
Investigators also cited the fact that a cousin of the slain family was working with the prosecution in the Lynne Stewart case . Stewart was one of the lawyers for Omar Abdel Rahman, aka 'The Blind Sheik' who was jailed for helping to orchestrate the WTC bombing in 1993. Stewart and an interpreter, and the Egyptian born Abdel Satter, a postman from Staten Island, were accused of smuggling out 'fatwas' written by Abdel Rahman to his followers in the Armed Islamic Group. Some of the fatwas resulted in an attacks in Egypt and one in which 16 Greek tourists were killed when followers of Rahman sprayed their bus was sprayed with machine fire in front of their hotel.------- "Jihad in New Jersey: Coptic Christian family slain and mutilated :'Islamic Hate' cited as motive," Militant Islam Monitor, http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/384