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'Suicide hijacker' is alive and well
By Robert Fisk, Beirut
A man named by the US Department of
Justice as a suicide hijacker of American Airlines flight 11 the first
airliner to smash into the World Trade Centre is very much alive and
living in Jeddah. Abdulrahman al-Omari, a pilot with Saudi Airlines, was
astonished to find himself accused of hijacking as well as being dead and
has visited the US consulate in Jeddah to demand an explanation.
None has so far been forthcoming. It is possible that the hijacker adopted
Mr al-Omari's identity but, if he had been using the same false name while
training as a pilot in the US, he would presumably have been uncovered.
That is not the only error on the list of hijackers. The name of Ziad
Jarrah identified as the pilot-hijacker of United Airlines flight 93,
which crashed in Pennsylvania was misspelt "Jarrahi". He was a
Lebanese whose family, living in the Bekaa Valley, spoke to him just two
days before his death but who still refuse to believe that he was
involved. Mr al-Omari's first name Abdulrahman was later given out by the
US authorities as "Abdulaziz" but there can be little doubt that
it referred to the pilot who lives in Jeddah. The Americans described him
as a father of four and Mr al-Omari does have four children, all of whom
live with him and his family in Saudi Arabia's second city. He has refused
to talk to reporters and in the words of one prominent Saudi journalist
"is one nervous guy". q |
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