Mohamed Morsi, (PhD in materials science from the University of Southern California, and the democratically elected leader of the Arab world’s most powerful and populous state , Egypt, but overthrown and imprisoned for life in a US-backed military coup) in a May 2010 interview with Brookings Institution scholar Shadi Hamid (2010): “When you come and tell me that the plane hit the tower like a knife in butter, then you are insulting us. How did the plane cut through the steel like this? Something must have happened from the inside. It’s impossible” (Robert Satloff and Eric Trager, “Egypt’s 9/11 conspiracy rhetoric”, Washington Post, 11 September 2011: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/getting-egypts-morsi-to-give-up-911-conspiracy-rhetoric/2012/09/11/4ca304ea-fb97-11e1-8adc-499661afe377_story.htm ).