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Ilhan Omar’s deleted tweet may reveal that she really did marry her brother

Ilhan Omar’s deleted tweet may reveal that she really did marry her brother

Rep. Ilhan Omar reportedly appeared to refer to her father by a similar name to her former husband in a  since-deleted social media post from over a decade ago — as federal investigators probe her identity and immigration records.

“Happy Father’s Day to my aabo Nur Said, I am forever grateful to Allah for giving me the best father …,” Omar wrote in June 2013, according to the site Web Archive.

The Democratic Minnesota congresswoman — who arrived in the US as a refugee from Somalia in 1995 — scrubbed the post on the morning of Sept. 19, 2019, Fox News reported.

However, several records, including a memorial post by the Congressional Black Caucus from 2020, refer to the “Squad” member’s late-father as “Nur Omar Mohamed.”

The name “Nur Said,” as referenced in Omar’s since-deleted post, appears to be a similar name to that of her ex-husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi.

A decades-old claim alleges Omar married her brother when she wed Said Elmi in 2009 because she was trying to secure him a green card — which never came to fruition.

The since-deleted post, first reported by the Daily Caller in 2019, resurfaced after federal agents raided Omar’s Washington DC home on Oct. 12 as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into possible falsified statements on immigration and naturalization documents.

A motion filed Wednesday by the US District Attorney for the District of Columbia seeking to prevent the federal search warrant of Omar’s home from being unsealed, referred to the congresswoman as “Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar.”

The filing does not explain why the name appears in the document or establish that Omar used a false identity — and she told the publication on Friday that her “real name” is “Ilhan Abdullahi Omar” and not “Ilhan Nur Said Elmi.”

Somali names typically consist of a person’s given name, their father’s given name and their paternal grandfather’s given name, according to the outlet, which noted that the similarity between names alone does not establish a familial relationship.