Tragic Final Words of Murdered Texas Teen

It's now over two weeks since the savage murder of teenage sisters Sarah and Amina Said and authorities still apparently have no idea where their scumbag father is.

Police today released the 911 tapes of what apparently was a plea for help from the mortally wounded Sarah Said.

One of the teen sisters shot and left for dead in a taxicab dialed 911 for help, telling the operator "I'm dying," according to a call released by Texas police on Wednesday.

Amina Yaser Said, 18, and Sarah Yaser Said, 17, were found dead in a parking lot on New Year's Day in Irving, Texas.

The first call, made at 7:33 p.m. on Jan. 1 and determined to be made by Sarah Said, was dialed from a cell phone from an unknown location, according to police. Sarah can be heard telling the operator repeatedly "I'm dying."

The second call came in at 8:30 p.m., reporting a suspicious circumstance at a hotel in the Irving area.

It's sickening the glaring lack of coverage this horrific story has received outside of the blogs, local papers, The Washington Times, and Fox News. ABC, to their credit, mentioned it about ten days after the fact, but the appalling lack of attention from the major media who are always quick to pounce with the slightest allegation of an alleged hate crime against a Muslim is quite revealing.

Previously.

Said Had Been Accused of Sexual Abuse

While the national media continue to ignore the "honor killings" of Amina and Sarah Said, more details have emerged painting Yaser Abdel Said as a total monster who was investigated for sexual abuse ten years ago.

Sarah Said's final phone call rang into the Irving police dispatcher about 7:30 p.m. on New Year's Day: "I'm dying, I'm dying, I'm dying ..."

About an hour later, a man walked up to an orange cab parked at the Omni Mandalay Hotel in Irving. He discovered carnage – the bullet-shredded bodies of 17-year-old Sarah and 18-year-old Amina Said, honor students and athletes at Lewisville High School.

Almost immediately, police issued an arrest warrant for the girls' father, 50-year-old Yaser Said, an Egyptian-born cab driver who family members said was given to fits of violence, threats and gun-waving rants about how Western culture was corrupting the chastity of his daughters.

In the week since their murders, friends and relatives on Patricia Said's side of the family say they have been haunted by that final phone call, a cry for help that went unanswered for years. They say Mr. Said physically and emotionally abused his children.

In October 1998, when Amina and Sarah were 9 and 8 years old, they accused their father of sexual abuse.

The allegations were reported to the Hill County sheriff's office, where the girls told a detective their father had been touching them inappropriately. Amina told authorities she had been penetrated at least once.

Their mother swore in an affidavit that the allegations were true.

In early January 1999, the two girls told authorities that they had lied about the allegations because they didn't want to attend rural Covington schools and wanted to go live with their grandmother. A district judge later dropped the charges of aggravated sexual assault against Mr. Said.

George Burnett, a fire chief in the small town of Covington, visited the Saids' homestead a few times when their cows got out. He said the girls "were sent home several times from school with lice problems and asked not to return until they got it straightened out."

He said authorities in the town about 45 miles south of Fort Worth are on alert.

"We're keeping an eye out," he said. "We know he knows the area."

Mr. Said often espoused his version of traditional Middle Eastern values, prompting speculation the murders were "honor killings," an ancient Arab tribal custom in which the man of the family kills women he believes have shamed the family. The practice is now widely repudiated.

Read the rest of this incredibly disturbing report.

UPDATE: More thoughts from Bryan at Hot Air.

Mother of Slain Texas Girls Had Fled Before Murders

Patricia Said, the mother of the two Texas girls murdered by their father, Yaser Abdel Said, had fled with the girls on Christmas after he discovered Sarah Said was dating a non-Muslim boy.

The story link details the timeline and notes the father had a history of domestic violence.

Meanwhile, the virtual blackout of national media coverage went on for a week until ABC News stumbled across the story Tuesday.

Authorities tell ABC News that the investigation so far has produced few solid leads as to Yaser Abdel Said's whereabouts, and they fear he may have fled the country, perhaps even to his native Egypt. Police say they believe Said, a taxi driver, was driving the cab that evening.

"As far as I know, there haven't been any sightings of him," Officer David Tull, spokesman for the Irving Police Department, told ABC News about the 50-year-old Said. "He's had a week now, so he could be pretty much anywhere."

Outside of the local media in Texas, The Washington Times and bloggers, national media hasn't gone near this story.

You can bet any amount were this an alleged hate crime perpertrated against Muslims, there'd be wall-to-wall coverage, with CAIR spokesthings appearing on every network around the clock.

Here's the latest from Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch.

The killings of Amina and Sarah Said raises uncomfortable questions for the Islamic community in the United States, questions about the culture and mindset that people like Yaser Said bring to this country. Now that honor killing has come to Texas, Muslim spokesmen in the U.S. have an all the more urgent responsibility to end their denial and confront these cultural attitudes. If they don’t, and instead continue to glibly insist that religion has nothing to do with what happened to these poor girls, the murders of the Said sisters will only be the beginning of a new American phenomenon.