Syrian foreign minister Mustafa Tlass, author of The Matza of Zion, a book that depicts the infamous Damascus blood libel of 1840 as an actual event, claimed during a meeting in Damascus with a delegation from the British Royal College of Defense Studies that the Mossad planned the ramming of two hijacked airliners into the WTC towers as part of a Jewish conspiracy. [11]

Former Egyptian ambassador to Afghanistan Ahmad Al- 'Amrawi told the Palestinian Islamic Jihad mouthpiece Al- Istiqlal that the Zionist movement and American intelligence organizations planned the attacks. He said the aim was both to extricate Israel from its current crisis and to give the U.S. an opening to take over the oil reserves in the Caspian Sea, thus gaining full control of the world's main oil resources. [12]

Lebanese Druse leader Walid Jumblatt told Al-Ayyam he thought "it was a large intelligence operation, behind which might be the Mossad and American intelligence, with the aim of [bringing about] a new war in the region so as to impoverish and conquer it." [13]

Sheikh Muhammad Gamei'a, formerly both Al-Azhar University's representative in the U.S. and imam of the Islamic Cultural Center and Mosque of New York City, told Al-Azhar University's unofficial website www.lailatalqadr.com in a comprehensive interview, "All the signs indicate that the Jews have the most to gain from an explosion like that." [14]

Columnist Ahmad Al-Musallah of Al-Dustour wrote: "What happened is the work of Jewish-Israeli-American Zionism, and the act of the large Zionist Jewish mind controlling the world economically, politically, and through the media...." [15]

Rakan Al-Majali, another Al-Dustour columnist, wrote: "It is obvious that Israel is the one to gain greatly from this bloody, loathsome, and terrible terror operation, and it seeks to gain further by accusing the Arabs and Muslims of carrying it out....
Only Israel does not fear that the Jews will be discovered to be behind this operation - who inside or outside the U.S. would dare to accuse them, as any harm to them means talk of a new Holocaust? They, more than anyone, are capable of hiding a crime they carry out, and they can be certain that no one will ask them what they have done." [16]

Lebanese-Jordanian Holocaust denier Dr. Hayat Al-Huweiek 'Atiya' presented the theory based on statements made - or not made - by an Arab official. In Al-Dustour, she wrote:
"Maybe some will think that I am hallucinating when I speak of Jewish Zionist hands behind the terrible event that struck at the U.S.... But in a lengthy interview with the Arab League representative in Paris for the [Egyptian] French-language Al-Nil television channel, [the representative] refrained from pointing directly at the Jews, because as an official he cannot do such a thing before an investigation reveals it, but he [implied] it...." [17]

Jihad Jbara wrote in the Jordanian government daily Al-Rai:
"...Why [not assume] that Zionist organizations perpetrated it, so that Israel could destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque while the world was preoccupied with what happened in America ...?" [18]

In Iran, Majlis (Parliament) Chairman Mahdi Karrubi wondered whether the guilty parties might have "come from the land of Afghanistan, or whether the Zionists in Israel plotted the terror operation in order to blacken the faces of the Muslims - or whether the [terror] operations in America had been consolidated inside America and reached the stage where they required suicide attackers...." [19]

The Iranian English-language daily Tehran Times suggested identifying the guilty parties using the criteria of who would benefit from such an act. According to the paper, "the only ones to benefit from any action that would serve to discredit and demonize the Islamic movement are the Zionists and certain anti-Islamic elements in the West." [20]