Monica,8
Sylvia, 16
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."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Welcome to FR.....I think....
See post #18. This may actually have something to do with their religious beliefs. Even more ugly, if that's possible.
That's what I am thinking too -- they used to be Muslims and ran screaming, but to no avail. Plus, the MO sounds an awful lot like 'beheading.' To me.
hummmm...
Tapping my toes, impatiently......
Let me make a guess here...
Iscandar said Armanious even joined with him in an effort to better the lives of his fellow Christians back in Luxor by working with a human-rights organization called the American Coptic Union.
I think we can cross "Coptic", "Christians" and believers in "human rights" off the suspect list.
A heinous scene... slaughtered in separate rooms... their faces were contorted in a way that indicated they put up a fierce struggle.
Hmmm.
Does there come to mind any other religious group in Egypt (or America) that revels binding it's victims and joyously cutting their infidel throats while they squirm in helpless agony?
ditto
"Their throats were cut, they were not beheaded." The stewardesses on the hijacked flight's throats were cut, too. It is just the default mode of beheading, when you haven't enough time or your blade isn't blessed at the mosque. Oh, excuse me but ... I just bet there is a link here.
Think we'll ever get a response?
ditto
Altogether too many of these passing through FR these days....
Um...probably, but not a coherent one...
BTTT - I should have included that in the excerpt.
Yep, Annie, I've noticed.
oops, posted to myself, sorry!
They are watching you..... Oh, and Welcome to FR!!
Huh. Wait till you ACCIDENTLY post what you meant to be a private FRmail, to the forum!
Whoooooooo boy, that'll hurt.
Welcome aboard, BTW!!!
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