Van der Lubbe was tried, convicted and executed by guillotine in Leipzig on the 10th of January 1934 for setting the Reichstag fire.
Some historians theorize Van der Lubbe was “set-up” by the Nazis in order to create the impetus and favorable climate which allowed Hitler to declare a national emergency. That declaration empowered Hitler to suspend civil liberties; declare left wing opposition political (Communists) parties illegal and enacted various other emergency powers.
...and, yes, I freely admit I had to look up “Van der Lubbe!” (smile)
So, it appears you are proposing that this event is the impetus for some sort of convoluted plot to give Obama the emergency powers necessary to allow him to remain in office indefinitely.
That's an interesting theory; however, at this juncture w/what few and conflicting reports we have, I am more inclined to see this whole tragedy as the all too predictable outcome of poor policy, an horrendous lack of leadership from the WH on down thru senior military chain of command, unrealistic and unworkable ROE’s and one man who did his best to be a good soldier; but, who was put thru a physical and emotional “meat grinder” that no human being should have been asked or expected to sustain.
That said, I'm guessing too ...we really don't know much and what we do “know” may be false in whole or in part. As the current witticism goes; “We don't know what we don't know.”
Did I say that. There are other "interested parties" besides Obama. Maybe the Iranians trying to get that Imam to come out of that well.
But you're right “We don't know what we don't know.”
We learn more that way. I know I do anyway. :)