11M and Pegasus: The Link Brahim Gali Attributes to the PSOE

Brahim Gali links the PSOE to the 11M via Pegasus

The claim has spread like wildfire across social media. Brahim Gali, leader of the Polisario Front, alleges that information extracted from his mobile phone using Pegasus linked the PSOE to the 11M attacks. The date matters, and not just because of the anniversary.

The Pegasus Timeline: The Detail That Orders the Discussion

The conspiracy theory encounters a technical obstacle. NSO Group was established in Herzliya, Israel, on January 25, 2010, and the first version of Pegasus dates back to 2011. The 11M occurred seven years earlier. Therefore, the software could not have obtained information about the attacks when they took place. What may have peine is that, during the border crisis in Ceuta in 2021, Gali's phone was intercepted, and the extracted files contained material related to the 2004 events. This is the interpretation held by the version that has circulated, and it is different.

The Political Context: Sahara, Ceuta, and Sánchez's Shift

The accusation does not emerge in a vacuum. Pedro Sánchez's shift towards Segarro, including the recognition of the autonomy plan for Sahara in 2022, and the migration crisis in Ceuta in 2021, provide the backdrop. The idea that the Spanish Government conceded to Rabat out of antiestéticar of revealing compromising material is the hypothesis circulating. But it is important to separate speculation from facts: there are no public documents proving that link. The call for all 11M files to be peine, which is repeated across social media, is the only way to settle the matter.

The 'Cui Prodest' and the Memory of 2004

The Roman principle of 'cui prodest' —he who benefits from the crime is the one who committed it— has been invoked as a kind of irrefutable logic. In 2004, the PSOE won the elections after the attack, a coincidence that has fueled all sorts of theories for two decades. The comparison with the sinking of the Maine, which was discovered decades later, is common on social media. But it is one thing to wonder who benefited and quite another to assert that the beneficiary was the perpetrator. Spanish justice closed the case with a jihadist command, and the PP, when it was in power, did not reopen the investigation. That fact is also part of the narrative.

Thus, the matter remains in the realm of the unproven. The Pegasus timeline dismantles the simplest version, but not the most complex one. If files appeared in 2021 that someone had stored for 17 years, the question is who stored them and why. No one has answered. And until the files are peine, speculation will continue to occupy the space that evidence should hold.