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On the 14th of September, 2001, the FBI published their first list of hijackers names, along with a few brief biographical details. An Ahmed al-Nami was included, but nine days later reports appeared suggesting this may have been an error.
It's unclear how this al-Nami has identified himself, though. All the FBI said about him on their 14th of September list was "Ahmed Alnami - Possible residence: Delray Beach, Florida". And the alleged hijacker al-Nami was 23, 10 years younger. What's more, a separate Saudi Information Agency report talked about someone also called Ahmed al-Nami, who may have fought in Afghanistan, and hadn’t called since June 2001: sounds like a better candidate:
By way of confirmation, other reports talk about about a missing "Ahmad Abdullah Alnami", whose picture apparently matches that of the hijacker:
A Boston Globe article ties Alnami to Wail and Waleed al-Shehri, and talks about how he changed in 1999:
It was in this mosque that four young Saudi men - two brothers from the Seqeley family known as Wael and Walid Alshehri and their friends Ahmed Alnami and Saeed Alghamdi from nearby Abha - are believed by several friends and a local cleric to have taken a solemn oath to go and carry out
jihad.
Friends who knew them say they gathered in the mosque in the spring of 2000 to pray and meditate in an informal ceremony that bound them to jihad and, if necessary, to die in the defense of Islam. In the months that lay ahead, they began secretly slipping away from their families...
Alnami, 23, was distinctly middle class. His late father had been an employee of the Ministry of Islamic Affairs and Endowments, and he was the youngest of six siblings.
Alnami played the oud, a traditional Arabic guitar, and had a good singing voice. He would gather with high school friends for bonfires in the wind-swept park atop Souda, the highest point in Saudi Arabia, and make them laugh mimicking the Saudi pop star Mohammed Abdou. He was fond of smoking apple tobacco in a nargilla, a traditional waterpipe. The music, the singing, the smoking all would have been frowned upon as un-Islamic by the men in his family.
Then in the summer and fall of 1999, Alnami began a rapid change, becoming obsessively pious after returning home from a Saudi-government sponsored religious summer camp. One friend said that his family feared that the sharp turn in his behavior was a bipolar disorder. He grew a beard, he shunned his old friends, he stopped playing music. His sweet voice now was used to call the faithful to prayer at the Al Basra mosque in Abha, and occasionally at the mosque in Khamis Mushayt, where he is presumed to have met up with the Alshehri brothers.
When Alnami saw his old friends in Abha, he tried to steer them away from those practices that are evil, as he put it, and toward the right and true path of Islam. He entered King Khalid University's School of Islamic Law, long regarded as a hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism, and it was there, his friends believe, that he delved deeper into militant circles. Apparently he befriended another young Saudi named Saeed Alghamdi, who was also from Abha.
He just drifted away from us and it was like we had lost him, said a high school classmate who works at a publishing company as he stared at old snapshots of Alnami.
http://www.boston.com/news/packages/underattack/news/driving_a_wedge/part1_side.shtml
There’s plenty of support for an Alnami who has connections to other hijackers, who changed prior to 9/11, and who has now disappeared, then. As the “still alive” Alnami is reported to be ten years older, this seems most likely to be a case of mistaken identity.