After most of the articles, interviews and references mentioned above appeared, a comprehensive article by Ahmad Abu Zayid, titled "The Jews Are Behind the Explosions in America," was published in Al-Ahram. In it, Abu Zayid submitted 14 "pieces of evidence" in support of the theory that Israel and the Mossad were involved in the September 11 attacks, and presents most of the claims mentioned above.

"Following the explosions in the U.S. on the morning of September 11, the American scenario, whose episodes included directing pre-formulated accusations against Arab and Islamic circles, using this pretext in order to strike at particular countries, and launching the war in Afghanistan and killing over 1,000 citizens of this impoverished and tormented people, has [begun to] come true. Since then, it has been revealed to me and to anyone following events and the way in which America is handling the crisis that the American authorities' problem is not knowing who the real perpetrator is, but the American administration's desire to develop the event so that ... preprepared plans to move into new areas now without a direct American military presence can be implemented, and Osama bin Laden can be used as a pretext to gain solidarity from world public opinion.

"Immediately after the [September] incidents, the American authorities began to direct ready-made accusations towards certain people and elements [i.e. Arabs and Muslims]. The American investigative apparatuses devoted efforts to verifying these charges without noticing a series of pieces of evidence proving that the Arabs and Muslims did not perpetrate the explosions, and that the explosions were perpetrated by covert elements accustomed to acting secretly, violently, and bloodily, and then pinning the blame on someone else - thus accomplishing important strategic goals. [It seems] as if the American administration was only waiting for an event of this type to strike at the Islamic countries and declare war against them without seeking out the real perpetrator of these explosions, unprecedented in American history.

"The question that now arises is, what is the interest in concealing the [identity of] the real perpetrator while directing American public opinion and the investigative authorities towards Osama bin Laden and the Arabs, although there is a strong possibility that they did not carry out the huge attacks....

"The facts prove that the capability to carry out this attack, as it was carried out, lies solely in the hands of a single element in America - that is, the Zionist lobby, which has managed to infiltrate all American bodies. The possibility that the Zionist lobby, and behind it the Mossad, were involved is a strong one. We are not saying these things in a vacuum. There is a long line of evidence substantiating this:

"1. [Israel's] ... General Security Services warned Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at the beginning of September ... not to go to the U.S. during the entire month, as noted by the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Aharonoth which reported that Sharon had planned to go to New York in order to participate in a conference of solidarity with Israel organized by the American Jewish organizations.

"2. Some 4,000 Jews employed in the World Trade Center did not go to work that morning. It is not possible that such a large number [of people] was absent from work by chance. This is a fact that [even] the Zionist bodies in America do not deny, and it proves that the Jews knew what was about to happen.

"3. The Jews sold their stocks in the Manhattan stock exchange two days before the attacks. The sellers [on the stock exchange] were surprised by the [Jews'] haste to sell their stocks in American companies.

"4. Twenty Jews came from outside the U.S., entered the WTC on the morning of the event, and left before the attack. In addition, no Jew was hurt in the incident.

"5. [Federal investigators] arrested a group of Jews who set up video cameras on the roof of one of the Israeli companies across from the WTC a little while before the incident, in order to film the moment of the explosions. This proves that Zionist elements knew what was about to happen. The Israeli paper Ha'aretz noted that the federal investigators had arrested five Zionists who worked for a moving company owned by a Zionist in nearby New Jersey on suspicion of involvement in the explosions. The police interrogated them for three days, which came only four hours after the incident as they were filming the explosions and dancing with glee. The newspaper added that one of the suspects was interrogated for 14 hours straight on suspicion of belonging to the Mossad after it became clear that he had European citizenship in addition to his Israeli citizenship - something only Mossad agents are allowed.

"6. [The claim that] the Mossad carried out these explosions in the country most friendly to Israel is based on its involvement in similar operations in the past such as the blasting of the American ship U.S.S. Liberty in 1967. Furthermore, no organization or country with good economic and technical [abilities] has so deeply infiltrated American society and institutions, except for the Zionist entity and its arm the Mossad. Proving this, is the report that appeared in the British paper The Guardian, that no Arabs at all were aboard the two airplanes that struck the WTC.

"7. The Canadian newspaper Newsembrojo [sic] reported that a CIA source had said he had information practically proving that the Israeli Mossad was involved in the attacks. The source, who refused to reveal his name for fear of putting the Canadian newspaper at risk, added that the possibilities existed and that the CIA apparatus had discovered an Israeli threat to hit buildings in the U.S. so as to arouse world public opinion against the Arabs.

"8. This attack demands great military precision. The activity was carried out by a military or a global intelligence body, not by a group of terrorists that did not possess what the big countries have.

"9. These attacks shifted world public opinion against the Arabs and Muslims and in favor of Israel, particularly after the rise of voices condemning Israel for its racism during the Durban conference that followed 11 months of the Palestinian Intifada.

"10. Israel and world Zionism are the only ones to gain from these incidents.

"11. The Jews acted to monger disagreement and contention between America and the Arabs after Israel sensed recently a certain American identification with the Palestinian people.

"12. There are many precedents in which the Zionists and the Jews carried out organized terrorist activities. The operation that took place was one that only a well-trained intelligence apparatus like the Mossad could have carried out.

"13. Israel is the only one that could have carried out these explosions. The attacks themselves prove that they were planned by elements highly familiar with the American apparatuses. The Mossad is the only one that could have breached American security. Only the Zionists get the trust of the Americans, enabling them to carry out such an operation without accusations being leveled at them.

"14. Israel wanted to divert attention from the official, and, particularly, the popular international pressure on the Zionist government due to the massacres and the war of annihilation it wages against the Palestinian people.

"In light of these certain facts, we can determine that the Israeli security apparatuses knew in good time of the date of the suicide attacks on the U.S., and that these apparatuses, particularly the Mossad, were involved in one way or another in organizing and perpetrating the big terrorist operation. This is for a simple reason - that Israel is the first and only one to gain from this crime.

"The entire world must know who the [real] terrorists are, who act to corrupt the entire world, to stir up contention among the peoples, and to kindle war and conflict that kill women, children, and the elderly. America must seek the real perpetrator of the recent explosions - not shut its eyes in the face of what the Zionist Jews are doing - and not persist with its hostility towards the Arabs and Muslims."

This antisemitic myth has also been espoused by Holocaust deniers. In an exclusive article for the Saudi daily Al-Watan, notorious Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy explained that the September 11 attacks in the U.S. were an American conspiracy by the hawks in Bush's administration, led by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

Garaudy claimed that most of these hawks were Jews with close ties to Israel. To prove his point, Garaudy cited "evidence" from the Arabic media: the absence of 4,000 Jews employed in the World Trade Center from work that day, stock market profiteering by Jews buying up the large Jewish companies before the buildings' collapse, and Sharon's postponement of his visit to the U.S [57]

The Egyptian Sheikh Muhammad Gamei'a, one of the more vocal proponents of the conspiracy theory, went further still and hinted at the punishment the Jews should receive for their deeds - annihilation like Hitler attempted:

"I told the American officials that the American people cannot, at this critical stage, know the real enemy who struck at its heart if it does not awaken from its slumber and stop blaming the Arabs and the Muslims. Immediately after the event, some 30% of the American people awakened [and realized] that they were the victims of deception on the part of the Jews, who presented the Arabs and the Muslims to them as a nation of barbarians and blood-shedders. It became clear to the American people that hidden hands were at play in their land. I heard from many Americans who visited me at the Islamic Center that they had been misled by the Jews and thus had come to express their support for the Arabs and Muslims. They said openly, We were deceived!!... If this [deceit] were to be known to the American people, they would do to the Jews what Hitler did to them!..." [58]