[Vigilanteman]

99% chance his name is Mohammed.

LOL! Such an ignorant, bigoted statement. It is only 78% of them which make the other 22% look bad. So to show how enlightened I am, I'll bet there is only a 78% he was named Mohammed or some derivative thereof. And a 20% chance he was named Achmed, Ahab or something like that.

[Hodar]

I'll bet there is only a 78% he was named Mohammed or some derivative thereof. And a 20% chance he was named Achmed, Ahab or something like that.

You missed with the 20%, his name doesn't start with an 'A'.

“The FBI has now identified the passenger as 21-year-old Saleh Alramakh of Akron.”

Ohio?!? Who'd a thunk that Akron would be the source of this kind of problem?

[muawiyah]

Saleh is one of those names adopted by Moslems solely becaue it appears in the Koran. The reference is to a pre-Islamic prophet who ended up getting his people destroyed by God.

Alramakh breaks into AL RA MAKH ~ which is kind of funny since it's got mixed grammatical elements (which makes it terribly difficult to translate since my knowledge of Arabic is limited). However, it could mean "From Mecca", or "On the way to Mecca", or "Turned around at Mecca" ~ and that sort of confusion in grammer means this guy has an old noble family name if he's Arabic, or just a made up name if he's not.

He could be a rich Saudi or a poor Yemeni.

The President of Yemen carries a surname of Saleh.