Editing Saeed al-Ghamdi (section)

==Mistaken identity allegations==
On 23 September 2001, before the FBI had released the pictures of the hijackers, the [[BBC]] and ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' reported that a Saudi Airlines pilot named Saeed al-Ghamdi was furious that a name on the hijacker's list released by the FBI matched his own. CNN also showed a picture of the "living" al-Ghamdi as the hijacker. The man claimed CNN likely got his picture from a Flight Safety flying school in Florida he attended.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1559151.stm |title=Hijack 'suspects' alive and well |work=[[BBC News]] |date=23 September 2001 |access-date=7 December 2018 |publisher=[[BBC]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181206145946/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1559151.stm |archive-date=2018-12-06 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/23/widen23.xml |title=Revealed: the men with stolen identities |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |first=David |last=Harrison |date=23 September 2001 |access-date=7 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030119172120/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2001%2F09%2F23%2Fwiden23.xml |archive-date=2003-01-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' later investigated the claims of "living" hijackers by the BBC and discovered them to be cases of mistaken identity.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,265160,00.html |title=Panoply of the Absurd |newspaper=[[Spiegel Online]] |date=September 8, 2003 |access-date=7 December 2018 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120524210246/http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,265160,00.html |archive-date=2012-05-24 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In June 2005 the [[Saudi Arabia|Saudi]] government released a list (see [[al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula]]) of 36 wanted (and alive) terrorists, one of whom was Salih Saeed Al Batih al-Ghamdi. [[9/11 conspiracy theories|9/11 conspiracy theorists]] quickly confused him with the hijacker Saeed al-Ghamdi.<ref>{{cite news |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050706075447/http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?id=613&section=1 |title=Saudi Arabia issues New list of wanted "terrorist" suspects, Asharq Al-Awsat Exclusive: Al Qaeda''s in Saudi Arabia''s new leader is a Moroccan National |newspaper=[[Asharq Al-Awsat]] |date=29 June 2005 |access-date=7 December 2018 |first1=Majid |last1=al Kinani |first2=Mshari |last2=Al-Zaydi |url=http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?id=613&section=1 |archive-date=6 July 2005}}</ref>

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Image:Saeeds-I94Form.jpg|Saeed's [[I-94 (form)|I-94 form]]
Image:Saeed-Customs-Declaration.jpg|Saeed's [[United States Customs Service|Customs]] declaration
File:Alghamdivisaphoto.jpg| Ghamdi's passport photo
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