WorldNetDaily: Sect leader calls for FBI probe

Specifically, the acting president of the American Coptic Association has now asked the FBI to open a civil-rights investigation into the murders of Hossam Armanious and his family.

For a review of the Armanious' tragic story, see here, here, and here, here, here, here, here, and here. You will note that I have said time and again that the FBI needs to investigate this case more fully than it has. My only difference of opinion with Mr. Dawoud is that the Civil Rights Unit would be out of its depth investigating the Armanious case. They need to call in the Anti-terrorism Unit, or whatever they call it.

Fortunately, the FBI now does seem to be involved. From The Jersey Journal, we now learn that someone used an ATM card stolen from the Armanious house to empty Hossam Armanious' bank account--and that someone had the bad sense to park his car too close to the ATM's camera! Result: the FBI knows exactly what kind of car this guy was driving.

Now I remember how the J-3 of Al-Qa'ida got caught literally with his pants down and with a laptop computer containing all his most sensitive passwords right where the Pakistani authorities--and later the FBI--could read them. But doesn't any terrorist, or any crook, know that ATM's always make a videotape of everything that goes on at or around their booths? Didn't those jihadi warriors learn any tradecraft lessons from what happened to Khalid Sheikh Muhammad? Then again, the Hudson County Prosecutor took special pains to deny that the ATM thief was linked to the Armanious murders in any way, shape or form other than having Hossam's ATM card--though I have to admit: what are the odds of an unconnected burglar walking into the slaughterhouse into which the terrorists (and I still think that's what they were) had turned the Armanious home, and nonchalantly making off with the ATM card which the terrorists, in their haste, had left behind? Any way you slice it, that thief has a lot of explaining to do.

Of course, now the authorities are going to play up the robbery angle. But who says that emptying the guy's bank account wouldn't be just the thing for terrorists to do, after wiping out the guy's family? After all, such funds would constitute spoils of war.

Stay tuned...