Posted on 01/15/2005 4:27:27 PM PST by 4.1O dana super trac pak
A family of Christians who fled persecution in Egypt ran into a bloody nightmare in Jersey City - where the husband, wife and their two daughters were found knifed to death in their home yesterday.
The bodies of Hossam Armanious, 46, his wife, Amal Garas, and their two youg daughters - Sylvia, 15, and Monica, 8 - were found gagged with their throats slit at 4 a.m. yesterday inside the green, two-story, wood-frame home they moved into five years ago.
Investigators were struggling to figure out who could have slaughtered the religiously devout family.
Jersey City Police Chief Robert Troy Said police are leaning toward the suspects being at least an aquaintance, after finding no sign of break-in.
"I don't believe it was random," he said. "They probably knew their killers."
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Rafique Iscandar, 51, who described himself as Armanious' best friend, said his pal also came (to America) because of the pressure of being Christian in the Muslim Egypt.
"They were afraid there," Iscandar said. "They are under siege by the government. We lived in fear."
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I think the whole family are Coptic Christians. I saw the pictures of the brother and the father of the wife weeping.
My bet? New Jersey is full of really stupid homegrown thugs, who rob people, kill them, and are caught within the week.
Like the former postal worker robbed the post office and killed three men there because they knew him. He was real hard to find.
Or the seventeen year old who killed a woman for her car and asked her about the maintenance schedule first - how long did he think he would be driving it?
Or the man who raped and killed the little girl next door. There have been about four of them.
What a waste.
Mrs VS
"They were also the victims of a recent burglary, which left them frightened."After that they were very scared," Iscandar said. "They reinforced all their doors and windows."
Also the police are investigating the previous owners of the property.
Now I do not have any special knowledge of the community this family lived in or New Jersey generally. But this killing has the smell of a break-in as a warning of coming events that scared the he77 out of this family. The murders almost appear to have been done by a Satanic cult or the mob.
I don't see anyone named lover, posting....bawwwww
"LOL, meek; Lover 'splained herself to BG."
Well, dang. Guess I missed it. Here is "Lover's" posting
history:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/user-posts?name=Lover
:^(
Lover got zotted!!!!
Are you saying there's nothing there? Or is my puter wacking out again?
I think meek was bring it to our attention that LOVER don't exist in FR anymores... : )
Yeah, R.I.P. LOL!
Ahhhhh, thanks.
I missed all the fun!!!!
Yeah. I thought he/she might have been OK. I guess that's one reason I'm not a mod.
Most Copts have what Americans would regard as 'Arabic sounding' names: with the exception of a Miriam, every membe of the two Coptic families who come to our little Orthodox (meaning Eastern Orthodox = Rum in the Middle East) mission when they don't make the two and a quarter hour trek to the nearest Coptic church have 'Arabic sounding' names.
not to worry, nully.....some's have better noses than others....like BG...she's really on top of the troll patrol. : )
yeppers....i was confused at first, too.... : )
I'll sit back and try to pick up tid bits that might fall off the table onto the floor.
Ignore that person in the corner with a puzzled look on her face.
I did. I'm on record as saying I thought you were OK.
As to recovering your old screen name, that is a question only the mods can answer.
It has been done in the past.
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