Posted on 03/05/2005 8:24:14 AM PST by Valin
March 5, 2005 -- The youngest member of the massacred Jersey City Coptic clan was butchered after recognizing a neighbor as one of the men who invaded her home. The sighting, which came as the girl made a desperate escape bid, sparked the slaughter of her entire family.
Monica Armanious, 9, bravely struggled out of the duct-tape bonds that the two thieves wrapped around her wrists and eyes in the Jan. 14 robbery.
But before she could make it to freedom, she saw accused attacker Edward McDonald, a 25-year-old father of two who rented the family's upstairs apartment, law-enforcement sources said.
He and his alleged accomplice, Hamilton Sanchez — a 31-year-old convicted drug importer — decided that little Monica, dad Hossam, 47, mom Amal Garas, 37, and sister Sylvia, 15, all had to be eliminated, prosecutors said.
Then, in a stunning act of callousness, McDonald went back to his upstairs apartment and spent the next three days living there with his own child and his girlfriend while his alleged victims' bodies slowly rotted in the home below.
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The attackers left behind a crime scene that Jersey City law officers called one of the most gruesome and disturbing they had ever seen.
Suspicion initially fell on Muslim extremists, because Hossam was an advocate for Coptic Christian rights in his native Egypt — and had made pro-Christian Internet postings that angered some Muslims and elicited some online threats.
The suspicion led to tension between Jersey City's Coptic and Muslim communities and prompted the FBI to get involved. The FBI reportedly visited Egypt as part of the probe.
But DeFazio said the crime had no religious overtones.
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No.
Even if we were wrong about whodunnit in this case, nuking Mecca would still be a great idea.
Sorry, I don't buy it.
Nope. I don't think so. Just because this was done by other than Islam, makes Islam no less vile. ...just a bunch of bad guys. But it's looking more and more like Islam had little to do with this particular incident.
ping
Yes, but we should nuke Mecca anyway. It's the right thing to do.
Why not? Not all atrocities are committed by Islamic nutcases - Some are committed by your run of the mill, ex-con nutcases.
How do you explain the use of ATM cards? This guy had motive, means and opportunity - Case closed IMO.
I'm not buying this....smacks of the TWA 800 story that FBI Jim Kaelstrom fed us.
NO NO NO! It has to be muslims! It HAS to be, because all they live for is to kill us.
Considering that Muslims issued death threats against him in the days before the murder, it was a perfectly reasonable assumption.
I'm still curious about the evidence. I see two guys who swear they didn't kill anyone and news reports that say they did. At this point I'm going to have to wait and see what goes down.
Hmm. If this holds, then it looks as if the authorities were on the right track after all, and just needed confirming evidence.
Apologies to them.
Ditto
Ping thanks V.
Yes.
NO !
You can excuse a Muslim (on a case per case decision) from TERRORISM,
BUT you can't take TERRORISM out of Islam !
I don't buy this at all.
What would?
Just going with my gut here...
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