明尼苏达州国会议员伊尔汗·奥马尔（Ilhan Omar）的出生年份再次遭到一名记者的质疑，该记者援引奥马尔的回忆录称，索马里内战爆发时她八岁。
Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's birth year has been questioned again by a journalist who referred to her memoir stating she was eight when civil war in Somalia broke out.
为《国家评论》杂志撰稿并曾向《华盛顿邮报》供稿的吉姆·格拉蒂（Jim Geraghty）分享了一张奥马尔的回忆录《这就是美国的样子：我从难民到国会议员的旅程》（This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman）的照片，将人们的注意力引向了“战争：1989-1991，索马里摩加迪沙”这一章节。
Jim Geraghty, who writes for National Review and has contributed to The Washington Post, shared a photo of Omar's memoir – 'This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman' – directing attention to the chapter ‘War: 1989-1991, Mogadishu, Somalia’.He noted that Omar had written “I was eight years old when civil war broke out in Somalia. One day everything was okay, and the next, there were bullets piercing not only buildings but also people”.
他指出，奥马尔在书中写道：“索马里爆发内战时我八岁。前一天一切都还算正常，第二天，不仅建筑物里，连人身上也满是子弹。”这名记者补充说，索马里多年来经历过多次内战，但奥马尔的文字指的是1989年7月发生在摩加迪沙的骚乱，其中包括后来被称为“贾泽拉海滩大屠杀”的大规模处决。伊尔汗·奥马尔的出生年份再次受到质疑这导致该记者再次对奥马尔的出生年份提出了质疑。
The journalist added that Somalia had seen many civil wars over the years, but Omar's writing referred to the riots in Mogadishu in July 1989, which included a mass execution that came to be known as the “Jazeera beach massacre.”Ilhan Omar's birth year called into question againThis led the journalist to question Omar's birth year again.
乔纳森·米勒（Jonathan Miller）：北卡罗来纳州参议院候选人在网上直播他与警察的武装对峙；逃入树林后被捕格拉蒂补充道：“如果在她自己的自传中，奥马尔在1989年发生此事时是八岁，那么她出生于1981年，在2000年她父亲据称获得公民身份时她应该是19岁，而不是她目前声称的1982年。”为什么伊尔汗·奥马尔的出生年份一直是一个争议点批评人士认为，奥马尔的出生年份在影响其美国公民身份的时间线上起着重要作用。
Jonathan Miller: North Carolina state Senate candidate live-posts his armed standoff with cops; arrested after fleeing into woods“If, in her own words in her own autobiography, Omar was eight when this occurred in 1989, then she was born in 1981, and was 19 years old in the year 2000, when her father purportedly obtained his citizenship, not 1982 as she currently claims,” Geraghty added. Why Ilhan Omar's birth year has been a point of controversyCritics have argued that Omar's birth year plays a significant role in affecting the timeline of her US citizenship.
奥马尔声称，当她的父亲归化入籍时，她作为未成年人成为了公民。然而，如果她出生于1981年，那么在2000年她父亲归化入籍时，奥马尔就已经成年了，将无法自动获得美国公民身份。
Omar claimed she'd become a citizen as a minor when her father was naturalized. However, if she were born in 1981, then Omar would be an adult in 2000 when her father was naturalized, and would not automatically become a US citizen.
据报道，奥马尔的国会工作人员曾要求更改公开传记中列出的出生年份，称存在书面文书错误。据报道，她的工作人员在2019年5月要求明尼苏达州立法参考图书馆将她登记的出生年份从1981年更改为1982年。
Omar's Congressional staff reportedly asked for a change of her birth year listed in public biographies, claiming there was a clerical error. Her staff reportedly asked the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library in May 2019 to change her listed birth year from 1981 to 1982.
据《纽约邮报》报道，该图书馆馆长在2019年5月24的一封电子邮件中写道：“2019年5月17日，奥马尔议员的国会工作人员通知图书馆工作人员，称她的出生年份不正确，并要求我们将其更改为1982年。”
“On May 17, 2019, Library staff were informed by Rep. Omar’s congressional staff that her birth year was incorrect and requested that we change it to 1982,” the library's director wrote in a May 24, 2019 email, as per The New York Post.
虽然据报道奥马尔的工作人员曾与维基百科以及美国国会传记辞典合作更改出生年份，但图书馆中的原始条目并非基于这位议员的出生证明或任何此类支持性文件。据《邮报》报道，1981年的日期取自其他参考资料。
While Omar's staff reportedly worked with Wikipedia, the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress to change the year of birth, the original entry in the library was not based on the lawmaker's birth certificate or any such supporting documentation. As per the Post, the 1981 date had been drawn from other reference sources.
关于奥马尔出生年份的差异并未证明她伪造了记录，但在此之际，这位民主党人正面临审查，联邦特工搜查了她在华盛顿特区的住所并向其亲属发出了传票。
The discrepancy about Omar's birth year does not prove she falsified records, but comes at a time the Democrat is under scrutiny with federal agents searching her Washington DC home and subpoenaing relatives.