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Abdulaziz al-Omari( '''Abdul Aziz Alomari''') was named by the FBI as one of the Hijackers of the First Plane which was crashed into the World Trade Center in the September 11, 2001 Attacks . HISTORY Little is known about al-Omari's life, and it is unclear whether some information refers to al-Omari or another person by that name. He has used birth dates of December 24 , 1972 and May 28 , 1979 . He came from Asir Province , a poor region in southwestern Saudi Arabia that borders Yemen . According to a 2003 CIA report, he had graduated with honours from high school, attained a degree from the Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud University , was married, and had a daughter. He is said to have often served as an Imam at his mosque in Saudi Arabia and is believed to have been a student of a radical Saudi cleric named Sulayman Al Alwan , whose mosque is located in Al Qasim . According to Tawfiq Bin Attash , al-Omari was one of a group of future hijackers who provided security at Khandahar airport after their basic training at an al-Qaida camp. During the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia , immigration records show that a person named Abdulaziz al-Omari was visiting the country, although it is unknown whether this was the same person. In the spring of 2001, al-Omari made a farewell video that was later shown on Al Jazeera . In it, he reads "I am writing this with my full conscience and I am writing this in expectation of the end, which is near. . . God praise everybody who trained and helped me, namely the leader Sheik Osama Bin Laden ." According to FBI director Robert Mueller and the 9/11 Commission , al-Omari entered the United States through a London or Dubai flight on May 28 with Hamza Al-Ghamdi and Mohand Al-Shehri . On June 29 , 2001 , al-Omari travelled to the U.S. for the first time, landing in New York . He had used the controversial Visa Express program to gain entry. He apparently stayed with several other hijackers in Paterson, New Jersey , before moving to his own place at 4032 57th Terrace, Vero Beach Florida. On his rental agreement form for that house, Omari gave two license-plates authorized to park in his space, one of which was registered to Atta. {Link without Title} al-Omari occasionally trained on simulators at the FlightSafety Academy in Vero Beach, Florida together with Mohand Al-Shehri and Saeed Al-Ghamdi THE ATTACK (center) and , and a 20-minute stop at Wal-Mart . In the early morning hours of September 11 , they boarded a commuter flight to Boston to connect to American Airlines Flight 11 , where al-Omari helped hijack the plane, and assisted Mohamed Atta Al Sayed in crashing it into the World Trade Center part of an attack that killed thousands of people. AFTERMATH Controversy over al-Omari's identity erupted shortly after the attacks. At first, the FBI had named Abdul Rahman al-Omari, a pilot for Saudi Arabian Airlines, as the pilot of Flight 11. It was quickly shown that this person was still alive, and the FBI issued an apology. It was also quickly determined that Mohamed Atta was the pilot among the hijackers. The FBI then named Abdulaziz al-Omari as a hijacker. A man with the same name as those given by the Report. EXTERNAL LINKS
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