Conspiracy or Conspiracy theory

With every major event, people assign more than one conspiracy theories. Sometimes the evidences given for these theories are so compelling that one is bound to think along those directions. The evidences and doubts raised have the entire responsibility of taking the conspiracy theory to a conspiracy.

A famous conspiracy theory is about the possibility that we have still not landed on the moon and it was just an effort by NASA to show its space supremacy and that the world audience was actually bluffed. The BBC documentary ‘Did we land on the moon?’ has been widely watched and according to some estimates 25% of the US population believes in the conspiracy theory. However, a much smaller proportion of the rest of the world’s population has a similar belief.

Saddam Hussein has been captured by the US army. I believe he had intentionally made himself available to the US army. I am not trying to initiate another theory – many are already going around. But a look at his lifestyle and actions before and after the capture might seem indicative.

Saddam had lived a life of luxury before the US set its eyes on Iraq. He had been doing anything and everything he liked. But after the US invasion, he had to flee. He could not sustain his old methods of life – he may have had the money to do so. So, when he saw that there was no use of fighting with the US and that nothing much would go his way from that point on, he decided to give up.

But surrendering would go against his very nature and also the respect of the few men he still enjoyed would have been quashed. So, it was better to change the means as long as the same ends are achieved. He leaked information about himself and was caught in a scenario where everybody would believe that he was indeed trying to hide.

And after getting captured he knew that he cannot be directly given any sentence but a formal court proceeding would be mandatory. The same thing happened. After some initial delay, various charges were levied against him and he was to defend those in a court.

In the court, Saddam does whatever he wants. He tells the lawyers, judges that the court and they themselves do not have the authority to prosecute him. He calls on his Allah and criticizes everyone from US to UK to the court itself. Saddam wants always to be in the news. So, he knows that his hunger strike would be flashed in every arm of the media across the globe. By talking in the court, he can take his voice to those people with whom he could not have made any contact if he had not been caught.

Iraq is on the verge of civil war or as some would argue in the middle of it. Every day atleast 5 to 6 bombs explode and atleast 20 to 25 people die. Who are behind these bombings? Aren’t these the same people who had earlier been under Saddam and been doing his ‘work’? Saddam directs them and they act accordingly.

Finally, recently an Iraqi lady’s blog has won various literary prizes.
She had started her first post as

“A little bit about myself: I'm female, Iraqi and 24. I survived the war. That's all you need to know. It's all that matters these days anyway.”