You know I got as far as the chair being the same and it's not so I quit reading. I don't see the point of trying to find a conspiracy with this thing. For what other purpose was he killed other than to terrorize us and scare people out of Iraq that are trying to rebuild it?
IMHO it was because, like Daniel Pearle before him, he was Jewish. That fact, I believe, sealed his fate. Note the first group on Al Qaeda's list: