Conspiracy theories grow in absence of bin Laden evidence

Deep in the rabbit-warren markets of Pakistan’s old Quetta, Mohammed Yaqoob Gugger sits by his rack of plastic hair clips and reveals who was behind terror attacks in America. It was Al Gore and the Israelis.

Gugger’s tortured reasoning, based on fragments he hears on the radio, goes like this: American Jews were upset because their man, Gore, lost to the Christians’ candidate, George Bush. With Gore’s help, they enlisted Israeli Mossad agents to bring down the World Trade Centre.