Break in Jersey City Case - Murder of Coptic Family

WABC News | 03/03/05 | Jim Dolan

[little jeremiah]

One possibility I haven't heard mentioned (pure speculation, of course) is maybe the drug/thugs were hired by Muslims to do the killing?

[Valin]

FAMILY'S FATAL VISION
NY Post ^ | 3/5/05 | JEANE MacINTOSH / TODD VENEZIA

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1356639/posts
Posted on 03/05/2005 10:24:14 AM CST 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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[AmishDude]

Nah, hired killers wouldn't do a Muslim-style slaying. In fact, they'd try to do the opposite.

[conservlib]

The throats weren't cut, from reports I've read. They were punctures.

Actually the report may have been sanitized a bit as far as slitting the throat or "puncturing" it. It is difficult for most peace loving Americans to understand the extent of hate, and religion fanaticism in Islam. The only resemblance that may bring this picture into focus in your mind is: Do you remember the Jesus freaks, and their anti-abortion crusade? Just imagine, a young innocent person being fed a steady diet of hate against the baby killers! A young idealistic person is also asked to defend these poor helpless babies, who are god's children. The dramatization and the vilification goes on for years until a civilized person kills an abortionist in the name of Jesus. The barbarians of Islam do not need to work so hard to create monster jihadists; it is all in the Koran, and the Hadith.