Putting that kind of conspiracy theory silliness aside, Parliament devised Siac to solve a very particular problem.

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Sceptical Yemeni journalists maintain that the theory of a wider international conspiracy is simply a ploy by the government to save it from embarrassment over the group's links with the authorities.

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Estrada dismisses the allegations as "desperation on the part of the administration" and counters with his own conspiracy theory that he is the target of a murder plot called Operation Jupiter.

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Three-quarters of Egyptians now believe that conspiracy theory.

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The trouble with this conspiracy theory is that Rick made no secret of his views in 2009, which he outlined in widely distributed public documents.

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Even WikiLeaks was initially rumored to be a CIA ruse in its early days, a conspiracy theory that still persists in some corners of the web.

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Maybe all of the elements of this story just coincidentally fit together in a way to create a terrific conspiracy theory that has no basis in reality.

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But attorneys for Skilling and Lay pounded at Koenig, trying to get him to concede the defense theory there was no company-wide fraud or conspiracy at Enron, but merely the Venn diagram of a few bad corporate apples--such as ex-Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow --lots of shaky investors and a brutal market.

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