The murky circumstances surrounding his disappearance — an abandoned car, a laptop recovered months later in a river without a hard drive, his body was never found — have spawned Web sites, television programs and conspiracy theories.
Since Edward Snowden helped reveal wide-scale government snooping programs, the conspiracy-oriented elements of the cyber-security community have become a little more emboldened.
State television showed the prime minister, Adel Safar, telling reporters at a polling station that the day was "historic" because Syria was "moving forward with the announced comprehensive reform program despite all conspiracies to hinder the development process".
Pre-scripted programs concentrated on conspiracy theories concerning the foreign presses coverage of the election, tinted with degree of paranoia worthy of the Discovery channel's all nighters about alien abductions or Fox news.
Sam Jackson, a PHD student at Syracuse University, recently wrote a paper for the extremist program at George Washington University called "Conspiracy Theories in the Patriot/Militia Movement"—perhaps the deepest look we've gotten at the role conspiracy plays in the modern ecosystem of the far-right.
These declarations had the unintended consequence of providing fresh fodder for New World Order conspiracism, which culminated in talk show host Sean Hannity stating on his Fox News Channel program Hannity that the "conspiracy theorists were right".
In the mid-nineties, he campaigned most heavily in the city's black neighborhoods and combined the rhetoric of twelve-step recovery programs, religious forgiveness, and conspiracy theories.
While some extremist Muslim leaders in Pakistan and Nigeria have denounced vaccination programs as a Western conspiracy, that has not been the case with the Taliban.
One of the country's television stations has three regular programs devoted entirely to conspiracy theories: "Chapman's Mysteries," hosted by third-rate ex-suburban spy Anna Chapman, and two shows by Igor Prokopenko whose titles are a remarkably rare example of truth in advertising ("Fallacy Territory" and "Conspiracy Theory").
But others who have seen the entire program say that a Zionist conspiracy to control Arab lands is one of the themes running through the series.
