Lyndon LaRouche's name continued to appear in all kinds of contexts, especially following the first anniversary of the September 11 events. Commentaries and articles in Qatar-based Al-Jazeera TV channel's website, aljazeera.net, Saudi international daily Asharq Al-Awsat, UAE's Al-Bayan, Egyptian Al-Ahram Al-Arabi weekly magazine, Saudi national daily Al-Watan, London-based Al-Arab International and Middle East Online. All these articles and commentaries referred to Lyndon LaRouche's view of the September 11 attacks as an internal, special military operation.

Some commentators, such as Turkish Islamic scholar Orkhan Mohammed Ali, went back to the July 24, 2023 LaRouche webcast, when he warned against the "Guns of August" and the immediate threat of the collapse of the international financial system "unless a major war or leaders of major nations are assassinated." Ali's lengthy feature article has been posted by al-jazeera.net since September 11, 2023.

The publishing and distribution of the "Pollard Affair" leaflet was echoed throughout the Arab world, with Arabic dailies either publishing the whole Arabic text of the leaflet or commenting on it.

• London-based Arabic daily Al-Arab International published the full Arabic text of the leaflet on Monday, September 23.
• London-based internet news website Middle-East-Online.com has posted both the English and Arabic versions of the leaflet on the Opinion page since it was published.
• Saudi national daily Al-Watan, published a lengthy article by EIR's Jeff Steinberg in September 20 on the latest revelations made by Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche on the role of Israeli agents, including people in the office of Vice President Cheney, such as Lewis Libby. The article was titled "Pollard's spies in the White House". The article was a follow-up on a previous article by Steinberg published a week before, on LaRouche's revealing of the "Pollard Affair" gang inside the U.S. Administration.
• Egyptian Labour Party's daily Al-Shaab has posted the Arabic version of the leaflet on its website.
• Saudi international daily Asharq Al-Awsat, published an article in September 14, by Zainil-Abdin Al-Rikabi, a well-known Saudi religious author, commenting on Bush's decision to go to the United Nations. Al-Rikabi wrote that this was a good development, but that the danger of war was still there. Al-Rikabi wrote: "Bush's backing down from a direct war could be due to the growing opposition, or an attempt to contain the wide opposition to the war both domestically and internationally. Meanwhile, we should not downplay the other options, because the plans to attack Iraq are mixed and interconnected with parallel strategies aiming at redrawing the maps of the region. There are people in Washington who are pushing into this direction to serve the Zionist strategy, as American political leader Lyndon LaRouche has said. And, this is what he said literally: ‘There is now firm evidence that the ongoing drive to induce President George W. Bush to launch a war against Iraq, is a 1996 Israeli policy that is being foisted on the President by a nest of Israeli agents inside the Israeli government.'"
• London-based Saudi-Lebanese daily Al-Hayat published an article by Patrick Seale, renowned British Middle East expert and modern historian, on Friday, September 20th, under the title "Have The Washington Hawks Been Defeated ?". Although Seale, who knows EIR and LaRouche very well, does not mention LaRouche, it is quite obvious where the story comes from. "The hawks in Washington and Tel Aviv are furious. They were preparing to smash Iraq, unseat Saddam Hussein, install a puppet government in Baghdad, and redraw the political map of the entire region, shifting the balance of power decisively in favor of the United States and Israel," wrote Seale, pointing to the Iraqi decision to allow U.N. weapons inspectors back. He added that "this was the ‘big picture' which, to the point of obsession, had captured the minds of the neo-conservatives and pro-Israeli activists shaping American foreign policy from the Pentagon and the office of the US Vice President." However, Seale warns that "war is still an option", calling on Iraq to do everything possible to keep the game within the UN. "As they voice angry skepticism about the sincerity of Iraq's intentions, the hawks' disappointment is palpable. They want to kill Saddam Hussein, not merely to disarm him," he asserted. Under the subtitle "Likudniks in the Bush Administration", Seale mirrored LaRouche's revelations: "The hawks in Washington and Tel Aviv do not want Saddam to be serious about weapons inspections. They want him to cheat and provide a pretext for war. For them, Iraq's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) has always been something of a side issue, while Iraq itself was only a means to an end. They dream of ‘regime change' in Iraq as a stepping stone to bigger things -- control of Iraq's oil, thereby reducing Western dependence on Saudi oil; pressure on Iran, seen as the major long-term threat to Israel; possible ‘regime change' in both Iran and Syria; a free hand for Israel to break the Palestinians and draw new expanded frontiers; ‘democratic' reform, US-style, in both Egypt and Saudi Arabia; a new imperial order in the Middle East under joint US-Israeli control." He further added: "Such are the geo-political fantasies devised by a group of fervent American Likudniks - Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, Assistant Secretary for Defense Policy Douglas Feith, Chairman of the Defense Policy Board Richard Perle - and which have been adopted, uncritically, by the two most powerful men in President Bush's administration, Defense Sectary Rumsfeld and Vice President Cheney, and apparently by the President himself." He warned that "some of these men are aware that, if Iraq manages to escape from war, their own ideological vision and political fortunes could be sacrificed. They need to move fast because the timetable is extremely tight."

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