A deleted 2013 Father’s Day post from Rep. Ilhan Omar naming her father “Nur Said” has resurfaced as federal investigators examine her identity records and long-running marriage claims.
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., told Fox News Digital on Friday that her real name is Ilhan Abdullahi Omar after court papers tied to a federal search listed her under a different name.
Recent court documents connected to the search warrant for her Washington, D.C., home identify her as “Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, aka Ilhan Abdullahi Omar.” Federal agents searched that residence on Oct. 12 as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into possible false statements on immigration and naturalization documents.
Omar’s office has disputed any suggestion that Ilhan Nur Said Elmi is her legal name. Two people familiar with the investigation told Fox News Digital that the longer name may in fact be her legal name. The Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment.
The name overlap sits at the center of older allegations Omar has long rejected. Her former husband was Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. Their marriage ended in divorce in 2017. She later legally married Ahmed Hirsi in 2018. Critics have claimed the first marriage was to a sibling; Omar and her office call that claim false.
Omar gave a direct answer when asked about her name.
She told Fox News Digital:
"Ilhan Abdullahi Omar, you know it," "It’s Ilhan Abdullahi Omar."
On Wednesday she appeared on MS NOW and was asked whether her one-time husband may have been a “distant relative.”
Omar replied:
"Not to my knowledge,"
A spokesperson for the congresswoman told Fox News Digital on Thursday that Omar has “repeatedly and unequivocally denied” the “baseless, disgusting conspiracy theory” that she married her brother. That denial tracks with years of pushback from her office against the same allegation.
Readers following the DOJ filing on Omar’s listed names already know the court papers do not explain why the “aka” language appears or prove she used a false identity. The filing simply lists both names.
The deleted social media post is dated June 2013. In it, Omar wrote a Father’s Day message that used a name matching key parts of both the court listing and her former husband’s name.
The post read:
"Happy Father’s Day to my aabo Nur Said, I am forever grateful to Allah for giving me the best father...,"
“Aabo” is a Somali term for father. Omar deleted the post on the morning of Sept. 19, 2019. An archived version was first reported by the Daily Caller that same year. Her office did not respond Friday to questions about the deletion.
An explanation attributed to her spokesperson and recirculated online said “Nur Said” was her father’s childhood nickname and that he kept a public page under that name. The same account said the tweet was removed because Omar and her family had received threats. Fox News Digital reported the characterization; the full original statement was not reproduced in full.
Other public references to her father use a different full name. A Congressional Black Caucus memorial post marking his death in 2020 referred to him as “Nur Omar Mohamed.” Fox News has not independently verified claims that his name was Nur Said Elmi Mohamed.
Oxford University historian Mohamed Haji Ingiriis, cited in earlier New York Post reporting referenced by Fox, also referred to Omar’s father as “Nur Said” in a discussion of alleged military background. Name patterns alone do not prove a family relationship. Somali naming commonly runs given name, father’s given name, then paternal grandfather’s given name. Similarity can occur without the brother-marriage claim being true.
Still, the deleted post is now being read against the hedged answers Omar has given since agents searched her D.C. home. The timing of the 2019 deletion, years after the post went up and well before the latest search, keeps the record in public view.
Agents searched Omar’s Washington residence on Oct. 12. Related reporting described a phone seizure and subpoenas to relatives in the same immigration-fraud probe. No charges under the false-statements statute have been announced.
A former Minnesota federal immigration judge told Fox News Digital that if investigators prove Omar knowingly used a false name on federal forms, the conduct could be examined under 18 U.S.C. § 1001, the federal false-statements law. That would turn on the specific documents, whether any misstatement was material, and evidence of intent. The judge’s comments were hypothetical, not a finding of guilt.
Omar has called the federal probe a political attack. In public remarks tied to the same news cycle she blamed President Donald Trump for death threats and attacks against her. The investigation itself remains focused on immigration and naturalization paperwork, according to the reporting.
The same timeline has drawn fresh attention to DNA material prosecutors are said to hold in related fraud allegations. None of that material resolves the name questions on its own. It does show why identity details in court papers and old posts continue to matter to investigators.
Here is the verified sequence. In 2013 Omar publicly thanked “aabo Nur Said.” In 2017 her marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi ended. In 2018 she married Ahmed Hirsi. In September 2019 she deleted the Father’s Day post. In 2020 a caucus memorial named her father Nur Omar Mohamed. In October federal agents searched her D.C. home. Court papers then listed her as Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, also known as Ilhan Abdullahi Omar. On Friday she told Fox her name is Ilhan Abdullahi Omar.
Open questions remain. The court filing does not spell out the documentary basis for the “aka” listing. Specific immigration forms under review have not been detailed in the public reporting. Absolute calendar dates for the midweek interviews were given only as Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. No arrest or charge has been reported.
Watchdogs tracking the case have said more records may still surface after the home search. For now the public record holds a deleted post, conflicting name references, a former husband’s parallel name, and a congresswoman’s flat denial.
Omar’s office frames every brother-marriage claim as a conspiracy theory. Federal agents are treating identity and immigration paperwork as a live criminal matter. Taxpayers and lawful immigrants are entitled to clear answers when a sitting member of Congress appears in search-warrant documents under two names and an old post using a matching paternal name disappears from her feed.
Accountability does not require a conviction to demand straight records. When names shift, posts vanish, and denials outrun documents, the public is right to keep the file open.
