FBI New York City Field Office To Assist Dallas FBI In Searching For Honor Killer Yaser Said Offers $ 20,000 Reward. For the last several years I have been the only investigator who has the nerve to stuck my neck out and gone on screen with national media TV like Fox News NY with Megan Kelly and Inside Edition withLisa Guerreroand John Walsh’s AMW to claim I knew that Honor Killer Yaser Said was working as a taxi driver in Metro New York City and living in ‘Little Egypt’ Astoria Queens NY and now, six years since the murder of the Said girls, the FBI Field Office at 26 Federal Plaza, 23rd Floor, New York City NY is in the game. The Muslim underground in New York City is hiding Honor Killer Yaser Said and his sister Ghada Said.
Date Picture Updated: 9/21/2001
Case Number: A9911004
Case Type: Involuntary – Family Abduction
Last Seen in: Euless (Tarrant County)
Last Seen on: 8/22/1999
Race: WhiteSex: Female
Height: 5′ 2″Weight: 115
Eye Color: BlackHair Color: Black
Age: 47Date of Birth: 9/04/1966
Ghada Saidand her children may be in New York hiding with her brother Yaser Said). In 2008, Ghada Said’s brother Yaser Abdel Said was charged with murder after his two daughters were found deceased in Irving, Texas. They were reportedly murdered for being “too American.” He is currently a fugitive and wanted by the FBI and thought to be in Metro New York City. Photos of his sister Ghada Said andher children Iman and Yousef Almetnawy were found inside Yaser Said’s residence AFTER he murdered his daughters on Janaury 1st 2008, it appears that Ghada has been in contact with Yaser Said since she went on the run in 1999 and it is possible that Ghada and Yaser Said are on the now together in metro New York City, “Good Cover”-family with a supposed wife, Ghada, and two kids, a family unit, not a single guy, Yaser Said, living by himself. Because of the nature of the crime, the Almetnawy children are considered at risk.
But on Monday night, it was the owner of a building in Queens who used a crew of painters to work overnight and paint over graffiti on a warehouse in Long Island City, wiping clean a canvas that was used by thousands of artists over the years to transform an otherwise nondescript, abandoned brick building in a working-class neighborhood into 5Pointz, a mecca for street artists from around the world.
By Tuesday morning, the work of some 1,500 artists had been wiped clean, the Brobdingnagian bubble letters and the colorful cartoons spray painted on the building’s brick walls all covered in a fresh coat of white paint.
“We are supposed to be the vandals, but this is the biggest rag and disrespect in the history of graffiti,” said Marie Cecile Flageul, an unofficial curator for 5Pointz.
The plan to convert the three-acre site into a $ 400 million development project that will include two glass towers and 1,000 new luxury apartments had provoked opposition from artists and their supporters. But after months of public debate, court hearings and political maneuvering, opponents had little left in their arsenal.
In a last-ditch effort to stop the development, they were hoping to have the building designated as a landmark. That option is now likely gone as well.
“I don’t know how you can erase 12 years of spectacular art,” said Hans Von Rittern, a guide who arrived with a busload of tourists, only to find the building’s art gone. “It’s cruel.”
The warehouse is scheduled for demolition by the end of the year.
The property has been owned by the Wolkoff family for over 40 years, and for most of that time they allowed artists to use the building’s facade as they liked.
It was the 1970s when Jerry Wolkoff bought the warehouse. At the time, people who tagged storefronts, subway cars and street signs were widely viewed more as menace than artist.
Today, graffiti is more mainstream than outlaw, used in commercials, sold at auctions and stamped on clothing.
The British street artist and presumable millionaire Bansky ended his recent monthlong residency in New York with the words “save 5Pointz.”
The Wolkoff family said they long planned to develop the site, but only in recent years has it become financially feasible.
As a concession to the artists, David Wolkoff, Jerry’s son, told the City Council in October that he would raise the number of affordable apartments to 210, from 75, and include 12,000 square feet for artists’ studios, up from 2,200 square feet.
He said he was a fan of the work of the people who turned his building into a work of art.
“The artwork is absolutely fabulous,” he said at the hearing. He did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
Still, the painting of the building – which started after midnight and finished around 7 a.m., according to witnesses — was met with anger and surprise.
“Everyone was kind of shocked,” said Jeff Carrol, 33, who went to the building Tuesday morning only to find workers applying a final coat of paint.
Mr. Carrol said he moved to Williamsburg from Seattle in September, and, while he was not a street artist himself, 5Pointz “was on the list of cool things that I should see.”
He would return occasionally to check out what was new on the building, but he knew time was running out.
Tuesday morning, he said, he was greeted by a police officer stationed at the warehouse and was told that if he caused any trouble he would be arrested.
The graffiti was painted over before it could be formally celebrated, and supporters said they would hold a vigil Tuesday night.
Graffiti has long been ephemeral but Mr. Carrol said he had hoped that 5Pointz would be granted a “stay of execution.”
“I guess I got to see it just in the nick of time,” he said.
Andy Murray won his third Aegon Championships title and completed the perfect preparation for Wimbledon with victory over Marin Cilic at Queen’s Club.
The Briton’s serve was especially impressive as he won the rain-delayed final 5-7 7-5 6-3.
Victory capped a week that had proved an ideal return from the back injury that forced him to miss the French Open.
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“It was a fabulous performance from Murray. A couple of little wobbles, getting a little irritated, but once he got his mind back on the game, his service games were immaculate. He did not let Cilic breathe, applying the pressure and it told. He could not have asked for a better week’s preparation ahead of Wimbledon.”
Murray, the world number two, will now turn his attention to a week of practice, before resuming his quest for a first Wimbledon title.
“I worked very hard in the time that I had off to try and get myself back in the best shape possible,” he told BBC One.
“My team helped me a lot, they were patient with me and it’s why I was able to come out and play so tough in the last couple of matches.”
A second Monday final in three years had looked a possibility at Queen’s, but after a rain delay of more than three hours, and one aborted attempt to start, play began at 15:29 BST.
Murray made the first breakthrough with a whipped cross-court forehand in game two and served his way out of trouble facing three break points in the next, but from 4-1 the tide began to turn.
Two forehands dragged down into the net saw the Scot give up his advantage, and when he fell awkwardly while trying in vain to convert a break point in the next game, a shriek of pain rang around the Centre Court.
“The courts have taken a bit of a pounding this week – it’s been extremely wet – and I just slipped,” the 26-year-old told BBC Sport afterwards.
“I was a bit sore in the groin area, thankfully it wasn’t too bad.”
Murray dusted himself down and carried on, albeit rather cautiously, but the momentum was now with Cilic and the fifth seed broke again for 6-5, before fending off two break points to take the set.
The sun was finally shining as the second set began, and Murray’s fortunes brightened as his serve clicked into gear.
Cilic managed to cling on in the face of three break points in game five, but unable to make any headway against Murray’s serve, the pressure was always quickly back upon him.
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The Croat almost made it to the shoot-out of a tie-break but a brilliant lob set Murray on the way to a break in game 12, and Cilic netted a forehand on set point.
It was Cilic errors that led to the decisive break in game four, but they came amid a string of wonderful shots from Murray, who followed a deft backhand volley with a searing pass down the line in game five.
The Scot narrowly missed out on breaking again at 4-1 and 5-2, when he netted a backhand on his first match point, but his serve remained impregnable.
After denying his opponent a single break point in sets two or three, he moved to match point again with a forehand winner and took the title when Cilic put a forehand into the net.
“It was a great match from both sides, a great level of tennis,” said Cilic. “Andy showed he’s a great fighter. Congratulations for his win here.”
A portrait of the Queen in Westminster Abbey has been defaced with spray paint, an abbey spokesman has said.
A 41-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage after being detained by security guards at the abbey, Scotland Yard said.
Campaign group Fathers4Justice said it thought a member was responsible but the protest was not official.
The oil on canvas by Ralph Heimans went on display in Chapter House in May and depicts the Queen in state dress.
It was completed last year for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
The incident comes nine days after the monarch and other members of the royal family attended a service at the abbey marking the 60th anniversary of her Coronation.
A spokesman for the abbey said: “In an incident at lunchtime today, a visitor to the abbey sprayed paint on the Ralph Heimans portrait of the Queen presently on display in the Chapter House.
Lord Harris of Peckham, who donated the portrait, said the vandalism was “devastating”
“Until work can be done to remedy the damage it will, very regrettably, not be possible to have the painting on public view.”
Buckingham Palace said it would not making any comment on the incident.
The Metropolitan Police said officers were called to the abbey at about 12:30 BST and the arrested man is in custody at central London police station.
In a statement, Fathers For Justice said: “This was not an official Fathers for Justice protest but it was carried out by one of our members.
“It’s Father’s Day on Sunday – it’s a very emotional time and this protest was a desperate plea for help.”
The group has run a high-profile campaign for more than a decade for improved rights for men who say they have been denied access to their children.
In 2004 and 2005 members were involved in several high-profile protests, including hurling packages of flour at the then Prime Minister Tony Blair in the Commons and climbing buildings including Buckingham Palace and the Foreign Office dressed as superheroes.
The picture was painted by London-based Australian-born artist Heimans after a sitting with the Queen at Buckingham Palace in March last year.
The work entitled The Coronation Theatre, Westminster Abbey: A Portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II measures 9ft by 11ft and depicts the Queen in the Sacrarium – the area near the altar – of Westminster Abbey.
‘Imagined scene’
It was officially unveiled in London in 2012 for the Diamond Jubilee and had been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra until March.
Westminster Abbey’s website says the painting is an “imagined scene set at night… showing The Queen in a moment of solitary reflection and is an exceptional interpretation of the intricate mosaic patterns of the 13th century Cosmati pavement.”
It shows the Queen wearing state dress, including the crimson velvet Robe of State, which she wore to her Coronation on 2 June 1953.
The most important thing is to get it restored. It will take time but it will be able to be put right again”
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The work, purchased for the abbey by Lord and Lady Harris of Peckham, was supposed to remain on public display until September.
Lord Harris told the BBC News Channel he understands turquoise paint had been sprayed “over quite a lot” of the portrait.
“The most important thing is to get it restored. It will take time but it will be able to be put right again,” he said.
He said this was damaging something created in honour of the Queen, who had been on the throne for 60 years and who had done so much for the country.
“To take it out on her is ridiculous,” he said.
Speaking last month, Heimans said: “I could not have imagined a more fitting home for my portrait of the Queen than Westminster Abbey, the beauty of which was a great source of inspiration in the conception of the work.
“I am deeply honoured by this acquisition and feel that the significance of the portrait’s narrative will have its strongest resonance in this remarkable setting.”
A spokeswoman for the artist has told the BBC she is still trying to bring Ralph Heimans “up to date” with what has happened to his portrait.
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