Cock-Up Before Conspirary

Ah. Now I remember why I love The Register:

"The tinfoil-clad analysts who fingered various sinister conspirators as being behind the events - theorised to have been orchestrated by the CIA, US Navy, aliens, Iran, MI6 etc - will no doubt refuse to be taken in by this flimsy cover story of incompetent merchant seamen and anchors."

From Dubai impounds cable slicing ships.