"Theory two is that she is a Commie who hates the US and sides with the "insurgents" who worked with her to stage her own kidnapping in order to gain $6 million in ransom from the Italian government while gaining her world-wide fame."
I think you have properly summarized the affair. She lets herself get captured, makes a video to try to give some leverage to get the Italian troops pulled out, allows the terrorists to get ransom money, and gets an Italian official killed. All for the sake of promoting her own warped view of reality. This woman is a truly dangerous, crazy person.
Wonder if she got a % of the $6 million ?