On September 21, 2001 FBI Director Robert Mueller announced that some of the 9/11 hijackers may have used false identities.1 The announcement by the FBI director was in response to a rash of media reports that emerged just days after the 9/11 attacks casting doubt on the identities of several of the hijackers. The media was reporting that at least six Saudis had stepped forward claiming that their names and backgrounds had been stolen by the hijackers, and vigorously denied any involvement in the attacks.

In the cases of two of the persons claiming to have been misidentified, Saeed Al-Ghamdi and Abdulaziz Al-Omari, personal details matching that of the hijackers included, "name, place, date of birth and occupation..."3 In the case of Al-Omari, an electrical engineer living in Saudi Arabia, he said that while he was in Denver between 1993-2000, "his apartment was broken into…and his passport and other official documents were stolen"......

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