Texas father, one of FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives, arrested for daughters' 2008 "honor killing"

[Eugene]

Source: CBS/AP

Texas father, one of FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives, arrested for daughters' 2008 "honor killing"

AUGUST 27, 2020 / 8:54 AM / CBS/AP

A Dallas-area taxicab driver wanted for the 2008 slayings of his two teenage daughters was arrested Wednesday in a small North Texas town, the FBI said. Agents arrested Yaser Abdel Said, 63, in Justin, 36 miles northwest of Dallas.

The Egyptian-born suspect had been sought on a capital murder warrant since the New Year's Day 2008 fatal shootings of the two Lewisville High School students, Sarah Yaser Said, 17, and Amina Yaser Said, 18. Court documents list no attorney for the suspect.

A police report at the time said a family member told investigators that the suspect threatened "bodily harm? against Sarah for going on a date with a non-Muslim. The mother, Patricia Said, fled with her daughters in the week before their deaths because she was in "great fear for her life." Gail Gattrell, the sisters' great-aunt, has called the deaths an "honor killing," in which a woman is murdered by a relative to protect her family's honor.

The teenage sisters were found shot multiple times in a cab outside a motel in Irving, a Dallas suburb. Police found them after one of the girls called 911 from a cellphone and said she was dying.

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Yaser Abdel Said, 63, was wanted by the FBI in connection with the killings of his daughters for 12 years (FBI)

[Butterflylady]

1. So glad they finally got him.

Saw the case on one of the crime channel networks.

[virgogal]

4. I saw it on ID .......glad they caught the bastard.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Thank goodness he was caught at last.

Honor killings are a perversion, a blight on our society.

It treats women/girls as objects who degrade the family name.

It makes me sick.

[The Magistrate]

3. Excellent News, Sir

A man who could do that is not a human being.

[OneBro]

5. And yet again, religion poisons.

A couple of my favorite reads:

"god is not Great. How Religion Poisons Everything," by Christopher Hitchens
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43369.God_Is_Not_Great

and

"Letter to a Christian Nation," by Sam Harris
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51299.Letter_to_a_Christian_Nation

[gratuitous]

10. I don't know about that

I posted this on Monday. Sank like a rock. Don't see anyone else doing this:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213964076

[OneBro]

15. True.

I don’t see other people turning guns into tools. I assume that was for the symbolism, not as a viable solution to the hundreds of millions of guns in American communities.

Secular nonprofits like Doctors Without Borders and Habitat for Humanity have always managed to help people without proselytism and prayer.

The problem for these new and improved “Red Letter Christians” isn’t that they can’t get equal time on television (as though we actually need MORE religious programming), it’s that they are competing with other religious organizations like The Christian Broadcast Network and thousands of mega-churches with mega-pulpits, each with its own radio and tv show.

[Chainfire]

6. Much of the evil done throughout the history of the world

is the direct result of organized religions and religious zealots.

[malaise]

7. Throw away the keys

Sickening

[musette_sf]

8. They finally got him.

Good.

[JanMichael]

9. Keeping it real. Asshole. nt.

[Enterstageleft]

11. You want to know why I'm an atheist?

Shit like this.

If there was a supreme being, this piece of shit, & the whole tRump family would have been struck down decades ago.

[JI7]

13. I am an atheist but religion is an excuse. The guy was an abusive misogynist scumbag

He may have used religion to as cover but he would be a piece of shit even without religion .

[Mariana]

14. You're assuming a supreme being would be good and loving.

There's no reason to suppose that must be the case. If there is a supreme being, it's just as likely to be cruel and bloodthirsty as good and loving.

[JI7]

12. Piece of Shit. He was going to sell the girls .