i believe...

..for every drop of rain that falls, a conspiracy theory grows.

Sure seems like it and this, I reckon, is one trend you can put down to the internet. While some folks have always leant towards the less probable, but more exciting, version of events, it used to be relatively hard to get the word around. Now, with instant mass communication, you can relay, interpret, embellish and distort to your heart's content.

In the case of the story linked, it'd be easy to draw a few more conclusions around why lots of folks believe this particular story as things in Iraq get worse, Lebanon has emerged, and so on.

But it's late - well, late for me - on a Friday night and any comments made here wouldn't be particularly insightful or helpful.

So, back to the usual refrain in these cases: if it's a choice between a stuff-up and a conspiracy, go for the stuff-up every time.