And don’t forget the link of his plane to Valent, which reportedly involve intelligence activities. There is more to this guy, more to this story.
After typing out my scenario I realized also that we have heard nothing about the experiences of all those other guests on the same floor. Now probably a lot of them were not in their suites. Some were. But my hypothetical inside conspirators disguised as room service could enter any rooms and would know which ones had no people in them. They could impersonate those people during a security sweep, or they could have rented a room for this purpose alone.