With Sammy Ofer "suddenly" dropping dead, just as his shipping company is at the heart of a juicy scandal with his ships being spotted at ports in Iran, the door has opened for salacious conspiracy theories.

The best conspiracy theories so far:

1. Sammy Ofer is not really dead. Rather he has gone into hiding. Perhaps this will derail the trial. Perhaps certain secrets won't need to be revealed, even if the trial and investigation continue.
2. Sammy Ofer was knocked off, so certain things would stay secret. Did the government knock him off? His brother? The Iranians? someone else?

Conspiry Theorist Barry Chamish is back promoting some questions and theories about what took out Ariel Sharon..

I was a follower of Chamish back in the post-Rabin-assassination days. I followed him regularly, and met with him, and talked with him often enough. I really believe his theories regarding the Rabin assassination. After that he got a bit crazy and too "way out" for me with some of the other stuff he was getting into. Now he is getting more public again, and he is asking some good questions about what happened to Sharon...