Building a Plausible Conspiracy Theory

The most immediate concern of Muslims around the world after 11 September 
was how to absolve themselves of the accusations pointed at them, arising 
from the fact that the much publicized horrors were all linked to an 
Islamic act of terror, masterminded and performed by Muslims, mainly 
Saudis and Egyptians, who paradoxically benefited from US generosity more 
than others. One of the ways to do that was to build, as is their wont, a 
plausible conspiracy theory which can be appended to the well-known world 
Jewish conspiracy.

Therefore, on the morrow of those attacks, 'explanations' started 
burgeoning throughout the Muslim world, suggesting that Jews stood to 
'gain' the most from that attack, and therefore it could arguably be 
imputed to Jews, Zionists, the Israeli Mossad and so forth, producing as 
'proof the assumption that most workers at the Twin Towers who were Jewish 
absented themselves from work on that day. This theory, which gained wide 
currency in the Arab and Muslim world, was upheld by the prisoner Yassin, 
who had been arrested in the United States following the first attempt 
against the Trade Center in 1993, and then released to go back to his 
sponsors in Baghdad.

In an interview aired on US television in early June 2001, Yassin, who was 
interviewed in his Iraqi jail, recounted quite candidly and as a matter of 
course that his gang had first planned to hit the Jewish neighbourhoods of 
Crown Heights and Williamsburg in Brooklyn, and then shifted their 
attention to the Twin Towers when they 'realized' that those were 'better' 
targets.

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