Obviously he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but that doesn't settle anything. And equally obviously his murder was a conspiracy of some kind, whoever killed him, even if it was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his mates.

Incidentally, how is this for an example of the kind of thing that gets dismissed as "just another conspiracy theory", involving murders carried out by a government agency? Except it turned out to be true.

Macedonia 'staged fake terror plot to woo US':
Macedonia has apologised for the murder of six Pakistanis by its security forces two years ago in a conspiracy supposedly intended to curry favour from America in the war on terrorism...