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Osman's revelations are sure to renew calls for an investigation into the Minnesota freshman representative who has repeatedly refused to answer questions on her marriage to Elmi. 'No one knew there had been a wedding until the media turned up the marriage certificate years later,' Osman, 40, exclusively told. 'Squad' congresswoman Ilhan Omar told friends years ago that the man who went on to become her second husband was in fact her brother, can confirm.Īnd now for the first time one of those friends has come forward to reveal exactly how Omar and Ahmed Elmi scandalized the Somali community in Minneapolis.Ībdihakim Osman is the first person to go on record to speak of how Omar said she wanted to get her brother papers so he could stay in the United States, at a time when she was married to her first husband Ahmed Hirsi.īut hardly anyone realized that meant marrying him. No one knew there had been a wedding until the media turned up the certificate years later'īy Martin Gould In Minneapolis, Minnesota, For

He added: 'When she married Elmi, no one even knew about it.It was a big Islamic wedding uniting two large clans in the community' Osman said: 'When and Ilhan got married, a lot of people were invited.She was first married to Ahmed Hirsi in 2002 in a Muslim ceremony, before they split in 2008 - but she later had another child with Hirsi while legally wed to Elmi.Omar was married to her second husband Elmi in 2009 by a Christian minister - although she is Muslim.We all thought she was just getting papers to allow him to stay in this country' Osman said: 'She said she needed to get papers for her brother to go to school.It has long been rumored that Omar and Ahmed Elmi are siblings, but because of a lack of paperwork in war-torn Somalia, proof has never been uncovered.Abdihakim Osman is the first person to go on record to speak of how Omar said she wanted to get her brother papers so he could stay in the United States.Ilhan Omar told friends years ago that the man who went on to become her second husband was in fact her brother, can confirm.

EXCLUSIVE: Ilhan Omar DID marry her brother and said she would 'do what she had to do to get him "papers" to keep him in U.S.', reveals Somali community leader