By 1569, Walsingham was working with William Cecil to counteract plots against Elizabeth.

From this position, he was able to play a crucial role in preventing conspiracies against the government.

If there were really these many conspiracies in Bangladesh, our GDP would have shot up a bit more!

And then when they failed, they started speaking about conspiracies that emerged from Tel Aviv and Washington in order to divide the Arab world.

It's often too easy to convince Egyptians of some conspiracy or gossip but equally impossible to convince them it's not true.

Close to his brother Edward and John, Lord of Reguengos de Monsaraz, Peter grew up in a calm environment free of intrigues.

With its accusations about poisonings and conspiracies, Ukraine's presidential election campaign is a spectacle only the Borgias could love.

Finally, even rational people have become more receptive to certain conspiracy theories because, in the last eight years, we actually have seen some sophisticated conspiracies.

Local Women's Unions have equipped women with needed tools and skills to recognize plots and attempts to traffic women for prostitution, and encouraged women to work with others in the community to prevent and fight against such attempts.

Indeed, if Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan s founding father, had been right that Muslims are a separate nation, Bangladesh would not have broken away from it, and the country s relations with its neighbor Afghanistan would be free of intrigue and violence.

Instead of a show of lofty disdain, or official silence, it made a colossal fuss, protesting fiercely about plots to undermine China, and putting dozens of prominent Chinese intellectuals, including Liu s wife, Liu Xia, under house arrest.

For example, it took a conspiracy theorist, Alex Jones, to turn up documentation of microwave technologies to be used by police forces on US citizens. The New Yorker confirmed the story much later without crediting the original source.

Other major plots thwarted elsewhere in the world appear to have been close to execution when discovered and tend to support the oft repeated view of professional counter terrorism operatives that it is only a matter of time before another major attack occurs.