Reply #10: Hijackers

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Bukharis
I can offer two possible explanations as to how they got involved:
(1) Their IDs were stolen/faked by the hijackers and were found in the Blue Nissan. CNN says:
"Their names had been tied to a car found at an airport in Portland, Maine, but Adnan Bukhari's attorney said it appeared their identifications were stolen and said Bukhari had no role in the hijackings. A federal law enforcement official said Bukhari passed an FBI polygraph test and is not considered a suspect."
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/13/flight.schools/
Why their IDs would be in the car is a mystery to me, though.

(2) The FBI found them through their connection to Abdulrahman Al Omari. The name on the manifest (or some such lower order document) is just supposed to be Abdul Al Omari. So the FBI searched for Abdul Al Omaris, turned up Abdulrahman in some sort of pilot database and connected him to the Bukhari "brothers". He definitely knew Adnan Bukhari, but I have no idea whether he knew Amer Bukhari.

I prefer number (1).

Photos
A couple are available:

Salem Al Hazmi

The hijacker is on the left, the oil company worker is on the right. AFAIK the oil company worker has a similar name and got jumpy.

Saeed Al Ghamdi

The pilot is on the left, the hijacker is on the right. AFAIK they both lived in Delray Beach, but not at the same time, which is why the pilot got worried.

Abdul Aziz Al Omari

I think this is the telecom engineer who studied in Denver, although I see Wikipedia is now claiming it is Abdul Rahman Al Omari.


This is the hijacker.


This is another guy who got confused with the hijacker because he has a similar name.

There is no photo of the person who allegedly got confused with hijacker Wail Al Shehri, neither is there an interview with him. I don't think he ever existed, whereas the hijacker clearly did exist.

There are interviews with pilot Waleed A. Al Shehri, who the FBI really did think was on the plane initially (they told Embry-Riddle it was him when they searched their records). However, I can't find a photo of him and believe me I've looked.