Cases of Mistaken Identity
Shortly after the attacks and before the FBI had released the pictures of all the hijackers, several reports appeared claiming that some of the men named as hijackers on 9/11 were alive., and were feared to have been victims of identity theft.
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—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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