Unsurprisingly, the only pieces of luggage that didn't make it onto AA11 were the ones checked to Mohamed Atta. God only knows why, because Colgan Air fron Portland arrived in Boston on time.
On September 11, 2001, US Magistrate Judje Lawrence P. Cohen issued a warrant authorizing the search of the two bags checked to Atta and recovered at Logan:
It turned out that one of those two bags belonged to Al Omari. Although not stated above (why?), among the items that were retrieved was Al Omari's Saudi Arabian passport:
The passport was delivered for forensic examination on September 19, 2001.
So although the authorities had his passport and the flight manifest from day one, issues with his identity persisted.
Initially the authorities went after an Abdul Rahman Al Omari, a Saudi pilot who had trained at FlightSafety Academy at Vero Beach Florida, but who turned up alive and well. He was interviewed by CNN in Saudi Arabia:
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpYiS8PIXhA)
They then turned their attention to another Abdul Aziz Al Omari, with date of birth 24 December 1972, an electrical engineer who had studied in Denver and had reported his passport stolen back in 1995 or 1996.
"The name is my name and
the birth date is the same as mine," he told Asharq al-Aswat, a
London-based Arabic newspaper. "But I am not the one who bombed the World
Trade Centre in New York."
(Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/sep/21/afghanistan.september112)
The FBI got hold of Al Omari's Saudi Visa application from June 18,2001 where he states his date of birth as 26 May, 1978...
...but that didn't seem to clear the confusion over the matter. Further down in the document referenced above regarding Al Omari's passport delivered for forensic examination, emails were exchanged between Denver police and the 911 Commission and photographs of Al Omari were provided, which however had nothing to do with the Abdul Aziz Al Omari we know today but belonged to the engineer who had studied in Denver:
It's interesting to note that those emails were exchanged in 2003...If by 2003 there was still uncertainty about what Abdul Aziz Al Omari looked like, what does that say about the photos that appeared in his passport which the authorities supposedly had from September 11, 2001?
In official documents on Al Omari that exist, both birth dates, the one belonging to the electrical engineer and the one belonging to the man who applied for a US Visa in Saudi Arabia are still present:
(Source: 17548697-T5-B46-9-11-Terrorist-Review-Fdr-Entire-Contents-19-Hijackers-Info-152)
Not only that, there is yet another Al Omari, Saleh Al Omari who shares the same date of birth of Al Omari as we know him today, but who entered the United Sates on January 12, 2001 through the NYC POE.
Al Omari's passport appeared once, in the Seventh Public Hearing of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States on January 26, 2004.
A short segment of the hearing is in this video, made by achimspok 17 years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEOSG_WaL3s
Here is a still from this video with what was presented as Al Omari's passport:
The quality is very bad, but that's the only footage I could find from that hearing. Photographs do exist, but only in relation to Al Suqami's passport. I could find nothing else on Al Omari's. NOTHING.
Further on in the video, achimspok presents two photographs of Al Omari, as the ones which appear in the passport, the top right as his US Visa photo and the bottom left as his bio photo:
If you look closely, the top right photo is NOT the one used for Al Omari's US Visa. Because of the poor quality of the video and the still, it's impossible to tell whether the photo on the US Visa is that of Al Omari as we know him today, or that of another person altogether.
The photograph in the bottom left hand corner does seem to be the one used in Al Omari's passport bio page. He is not wearing the iqal which is typically worn by Saudis on top of their shemagh. Al Omari appears in this photo as an imam, as they are the ones who forgo the iqal in order "to represent a more traditional, humble, and
pious appearance, distinguishing themselves from common daily, national
fashion" This photo also appears in an Al Qaida(?) video where he is reading his will:
(from: https://odysee.com/@AdamFitzgerald:2/911-Hijacker-Abdulaziz-al-Omari-Video-Will:d? lid=a918d59e69e883b413ac19cbe680d986e271432e)
The 911 Commission does say that he had attained a degree from the Imam Muhammad
Ibn Saud Islamic University. But they also said that he hailed from Saudi Arabia's Asir Province, which he didn't, because Huraan village he was born in is in the Baha Province.
Note that in the above video, Abd al-Rahman appears as his father's name, which would have also been part of the son's name, so the entire name would read: Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahman Al Omari.
With regard to this, and going back to the FBI's Review of Al Omari, he is said to have had two brothers, Ali Saeed Al Omari and Abdul Rahman Saeed Al Omari (pilot). This is incorrect, if the Al Qaida(?) video is anything to go by, as Ali's and Abdul Rahman's father is called Saeed. Not to mention the fact that Abdul Rahman Saeed Al Omari must have been the pilot they chased right after the attacks and who turned up alive in Saudi Arabia.
Confused??
They must have been too...
The passport of Al Omari has never been released to the public.
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