Of course, we still don't know if the Peter Hansen in the story is the same as the UN guy.
I agree.
I also agree that information here falls short of connecting the Under Secretary-General, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Peter Hansen to the father of Hammad, Peter Hansen.
However, there is enough to get my attention.
First, the ultimate politically correct move would be for the head of the UN Agencey for Palestinian refugees to adopt a Palestinian orphan or marry a Palestinian widow with a child. That could possibly explain the different names, Hammad/Hansen.
Considering the crimes Hammad was implicated in, including murder, his release suggests the possibility of someonone with political influence was involved.
All of the UN Hansen's writings indicate he is very supportive of the Palestinian cause and very critical of Israel.
The bottom line is if the UN Commissioner General Hansen is the father of the Hammad that worked on the WTC sprinkler system 6 days before 9-11 and father of the Hammad involved in the driver's license fraud/ murder scandal, then that is news and a story that would need telling.
Then the agents searched a fifth man, Sakhera Hammad of New York, whom the men identified as their second contact, and found an alarming piece of paper. Mr. Hammad had a worker's pass to the World Trade Center dated Sept. 5. Suddenly, the case became a possible terrorist plot.
In a telephone interview on Saturday, Mr. Hammad's father, Peter Hansen, said his son was a plumber, and he provided a letter he said he had obtained from his son's employer attesting to his work at the trade center. In the letter, dated Feb. 13, Sergei Denko, president of Denko Mechanical, said Mr. Hammad had been working for his company in the basement garage area of 1 World Trade Center.
"He was there for a couple of days," Mr. Denko said in an interview.
Mr. Hansen, 56, said he immigrated to the United States 15 years ago. He said he was not in frequent contact with his son, who was born in Jordan, but he said it was inconceivable that his son was involved in any terrorist activity.
Federal prosecutors indicated in court records that a second man in the scheme had ties to the World Trade Center, but did not elaborate.
F.B.I. officials said this weekend that they had begun to corroborate some of Mr. Hammad's statements regarding his work, but that they were continuing to investigate whether the men had any terrorist links. The five men, including Mr. Hammad, are being held in Memphis without bail.
In Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, where Mr. Hammad lives and is known as Rocky, friends and neighbors said they were shocked by the reports of his arrest.
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The UN Commissioner General Peter Hansen is 60 years old , according to his UN bio.