
It’s official now. Over the weekend, the FBI finally added Yaser Abdul Said to its Most Wanted List for the ‘Muslim Honor Killing’ Of His Daughters. Bill Warner, who is apparently an FBI Florida based consultant, is the one who defines it as a Muslim honor killing.
I suppose that Warner and perhaps even the FBI will be condemned as “Islamophobes” and “racists” for telling the truth.
When I went to investigator Bill Warner’s site I found myself face to face with…myself! Warner links to that portion of the Fox documentary about honor killings in America Murder in the Family. Honor Killings in America where I am speaking. It’s a very good documentary and may be purchased HERE.
I’ve written about this case many times over the last nine months. Said is the human monster who killed his own two daughters, Sarah and Amina, in cold blood, because they refused to marry Egyptian men in arranged marriages, were altogether too American, had ambitious college plans and Christian friends, boys as well as girls.
I wonder why it has taken the FBI this long to add Said? And why they have done so now? But I also wonder when they will also arrest the girls’ mother, Tissy (Patricia) Said, as the accomplice who lured them to their deaths?
According to my interviewee Gail Gartrell, who is the great-aunt of the murdered girls, after Yaser disappeared, Tissy played the part of the victim, collected money from the girls’ schoolmates and their families, but remained close to Yaser’s extended family. Then, most improbably, Tissy developed an Iraqi male “protector” with whom she eventually fled to Dearborn, a radical-jihadic suburb of Detroit. According to Gartrell, the Iraqi stole money from some local Dallas Muslims (he presumably bought a car but never got around to paying for it, held up a store, etc.) after which he had to get out of town in a hurry. Tissy went with him without a backward glance. Her various relatives have described her as “dim witted and dumb-assed but not as mentally retarded or mentally ill.”
When Connie Moggio, the girls’ aunt, called and told Tissy that she would list her as a missing person if she did not hear from her, Tissy called real fast. Her story: She left the Iraqi because he was mistreating her and joined forced with another Muslim women who has just left her abusive husband.
This tragic story is peopled by an unsavory cast of characters: Drifters, grifters, gamblers, illegal gun-toters, violent wheeler-dealers who know how to move from town to town and how to get out of town or out of the country–in short, how to stay one step ahead of the law.
I have faith in the FBI. If Yaser is still in the United States, they will find him. And, if he has fled back to Egypt–maybe it is time for the United States to hunt him down abroad and/or demand his extradition. He is also a terrorist, just another kind.





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6 Comments
1. George Jochnowitz:Better late than never. And who knows? Now that the FBI has done something, maybe the issue will get a bit more attention.
Oct 6, 2008 - 12:05 pm 2. Norman Simms:Yes, I agree with you and George.
Thanks to you, Phyllis, the matter has not been allowed to languish and disappear.
Norman
Oct 6, 2008 - 12:53 pm 3. Louis Santacroce:It’s only because you kept this issue before the public that the FBI got off its ass and did something. Now that they’ve added Said to their Most Wanted List, they might actually try to find him!
Oct 6, 2008 - 8:38 pm 4. Mark Rogers:This is good news from the U.S.A. which contrasts sadly with what has happened here in the U.K. very recently. As from a couple of weeks ago, the English legal system now recognizes that a woman’s testimony is worth less than that of a man’s and, in a roundabout way, sanctions domestic violence. What has happened is that the English courts henceforth will enforce the rulings of Shari’a tribunals where they do not self-evidently conflict with English criminal law. But that does not deal with the fact that these tribunals treat witness testimony unequally, not according to the relevant weight to be given to the alleged facts, but purely on the sex of the witness. And while doubtless “wife-beating” is not sanctioned by English law, what are we to make of this: when the acceptance of Shari’a enforcement by the ordinary English courts was made, several women who had made complaints to the police of domestic violence, withdrew those complaints and had their troubles submitted to a Shari’a tribunal, which ruled that the men had to go on an “anger management” course. But who took the initiative in getting the police complaints withdrawn; why did the police acquiesce (after all, assault and battery is a crime); why, if the complaints were “unfounded” and charges not pressed, did the police not bring an action for wasting police time? This is shocking, but the most shocking thing about it, is how quietly it seems to have been accepted. That a person’s legal testimony is to be ruled upon based upon a matter extraneous to the evidence should now be a recognised legal fact in the English legal system is scandalous.
Oct 7, 2008 - 1:45 am 5. Tina Trent:Imagine what would happen if such crimes, so clearly based on gender bias, were actually counted as hate crimes. Instead, the hate crime industry has quietly prevented gender bias from being prosecuted as hate for 15 years now, with the blessing of the N.O.W. and at the behest of the A.D.L.
What disgrace on all of them.
Oct 7, 2008 - 11:35 am 6. Chesler Chronicles » The FBI Was Right. Why They Stopped Calling Yaser Said an Honor Killer.:[...] Abdul Said’s murder of his two daughters as an “honor killing.” I wrote about it HERE. Fox News also did. However, within ten-twelve days, the FBI deleted this description from their [...]
Oct 22, 2008 - 8:38 am