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  • 2019-03-02 (xsd:date)
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  • Was Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Cousin a 9/11 Hijacker? (en)
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  • In March 2019, America's Last Line of Defense published an article reporting that a cousin of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) was one of the terrorists who hijacked Flight 93 on 11 September 2001, which ended with the aircraft's crashing in a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and killing all 44 people on board: None of the four terrorists who boarded Flight 93 on 9/11 was named Alqadib Aleimlaq, came to the U.S. from the United Arab Emirates, or was a cousin of Rep. Ilhan Omar. (Three of the Flight 93 hijackers hailed from Saudi Arabia and the fourth from Lebanon, while Rep. Omar's family is from Somalia.) This false report originated solely with America's Last Line of Defense (LLOD), a network of junk news sites that engages in puerile political trolling under the guise of proffering satire. The LLOD article falsely proclaiming Rep. Omar's cousin to be a terrorist was quickly deleted after its publication, just as a similarly defamatory LLOD article positing that a U.S. Army sergeant killed by terrorists in Niger was a deserter was deleted. (en)
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