conspiracy theory of the day

Raționalitate commenting to mentalblog.com: Claim: Al-Zawahiri is guided by KGB successor agency.

If you look at a chart of historical oil prices, they started to spike right around the time al-Zawahiri joined al-Qaeda. That was also the start of al-Qaeda's oil-related terrorism. For example the East African embassy bombings, which al-Qaeda did most likely to draw America into Afghanistan. They didn't have to draw America into Afghanistan, but they did accomplish their goal: American investors fled from a proposed natural gas pipeline project through Afghanistan, and the plan collapsed. That was right around when he joined, but since then, the price of oil has skyrocketed, largely on the back of fear about political instability related to terrorism. They intentionally provoked America into a crusade overseas in order to drive up oil prices. They knew too well that the US wasn't gonna go and clean house and then all the oil would be on the market – they knew they'd blunder around and then finally give up, and meanwhile the region will still be just as authoritative (if not more), and instability will continue in the Middle East, which drives up energy prices, which is good for Putin and his cronies.

I've always wondered: who around the Italian secret services made the Niger uranium forgeries? Ya never know, but I can't help but remember Litvinenko or some other defector saying that the Italian secret services were crawling with Russian agents.