# Stuff like this doesn't help... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 18, 2001, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-like-this-doesnt-help/82428 "2001-09-18T18:12:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-like-this-doesnt-help/82428/1 "2001-09-18T18:12:21Z")
I got an e-mail from Saudi this morning [about this](http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=94438). Rush to judgement and inaccuracies, either from the FBI or reporting will not make the end task any easier. > [@](#): > > 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. A second [similar story](http://www.arabia.com/saudi/news/article/english/0,5508,72554,00.html) I found in a different source. > [@](#): > > Saied Hussein Gharamallah Al Ghamdi has been in Tunis for nine months training with colleagues from state carrier Saudi Arabian Airlines, the London-based Asharq Al Awsat paper said. > > It said he had seen his own photo on CNN after being fingered by the United States as a suspect in the September 11 attacks and contacted the embassy in Tunis. > > US officials said he was believed to have hijacked United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania apparently before reaching its intended terror target in Washington. > > The FBI said it had gotten his photo from a flight school where he supposedly trained in Florida. I see a few different possible explanations for this sort of thing: [li]Inaccurate reporting by US media. [_]Deliberate misinformation by one or more sources_. [_]Inaccurate information from the FBI (under pressure to turn up quick results). [_]Confusion over Arabic names.[/li] In any event, this is very dangerous stuff. [sup]\*Americans will likely see this as an intentional “muddying of the waters”. Arabs and Muslims will see this as a manipulation by the Zionist controlled press to cast aspersions on them. Pick your poison. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-like-this-doesnt-help/82428/2 "2001-09-18T23:19:36Z")
Moving this to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-like-this-doesnt-help/82428/3 "2001-09-21T06:28:03Z")
I just checked Time. They listed an “Abdulaziz Alomari” (their spelling) as one of the hijackers. But, from the second link, we have: "The paper published an interview Monday with another alleged Saudi suspect, Abdelaziz Al Omari, who said he too was alive and well, and that he was an engineer who had no idea how to fly a plane. He said his passport was stolen in the United States in 1995." So one of the hijackers took an innocent person’s identity. Inaccurate info from the FBI, and haste on the part of the media, but as you said, they were under pressure. In any case, no conspiracy. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-like-this-doesnt-help/82428/4 "2001-09-21T07:48:30Z")
[Here](http://www.msnbc.com/news/628563.asp?0cb=-51924124) ya go, **Shibb**.