On the subject of whether Nick Berg was a you-know-what for the you-know-what or the you-know-what, here's an interesting tidbit:Meanwhile, the family said Berg had been questioned by the FBI more than a year ago about a contact he had with a terrorism suspect in 1999, while he was a student at the University of Oklahoma in Norman.
A senior law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity said the terror suspect appears to have been acquainted with Zacarias Moussaoui, an al-Qaida adherent now in federal custody and awaiting trial on conspiracy charges stemming from the Sept. 11 attacks.
The official said an e-mail address traced to Berg had been used by the unidentified individual with purported terror connections, but a 2002 investigation showed Berg had never met the individual and had not given the e-mail address to that person.
Michael Berg told reporters Thursday that his son was cleared of any wrongdoing. He said Nicholas Berg met the suspect while riding the bus to classes, and had allowed the suspect to use his computer.
Maybe working und3rc0ver in the US at that time?
I wondered about this when I first read of his "unaffiliated" status and his ID as the owner of a "small communications firm." He has also been described as supporting the US effort in Iraq, as having gone there as a kind of altruist.
Still it seems strange--I think I read that he had attended Univ. of Pennsylvania and some other northeastern high-end university, and then. ..the University of Oklahoma at Norman, to gain his "communications credentials"?
Maybe he was some kind of latter-day pro-America Lonely Planet sort of guy, doing under-the-radar hippie style traveling in the danger zone.
But it is all just a little too unbelievable. I think he very well might have been a U.S. agent.
Holy mackerel! The plot thickens! Here's a whole slew of stuff (via Kos) that sounds awfully plausible suggesting that Nick Berg's on-camera killing was amateurishly faked (at least to me, having not seen the tape). The orange jumpsuit; supposed Arabs with "pasty white hands"; no spurting blood; a dubbed-in scream; curiously fat Iraqis; a one legged assassin who doesn't limp. On and on. So, which spy agency (or lunatic) dreamed it up? How long before this percolates up to mainstream media level?
interesting. I'm dubious, but then fakes are al the rage. This hoax deemed by Brig Geoff Sheldon, colonel of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment, "a despicable act in an ignoble episode".
More on the staged Berg murder video, coming so conveniently after the torture scandal for the screaming heads of the right. I mean, allegedly staged Berg murder video.
Damn, Bush mentioned Nick Berg in the third paragraph of his speech last night articulating the current "plan" for Iraq (kill/maim/build a high security prison). So here's the theory: Berg is US agent killed in the line of duty. Using his already dead body, the Government clumsily fakes a video of his death, which many doctors, among others, say is bogus. Purpose: (a) distract public from Abu Ghraib photos; (b) make it look like al-Qaeda is alive and well and thriving in Iraq. But, this still raises the question: why didn't the Gov't fake some WMDs?
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- tom moody 5-14-2004 7:47 pm
I wondered about this when I first read of his "unaffiliated" status and his ID as the owner of a "small communications firm." He has also been described as supporting the US effort in Iraq, as having gone there as a kind of altruist.
Still it seems strange--I think I read that he had attended Univ. of Pennsylvania and some other northeastern high-end university, and then. ..the University of Oklahoma at Norman, to gain his "communications credentials"?
Maybe he was some kind of latter-day pro-America Lonely Planet sort of guy, doing under-the-radar hippie style traveling in the danger zone.
But it is all just a little too unbelievable. I think he very well might have been a U.S. agent.
- bunny (guest) 5-16-2004 11:05 pm [add a comment]
Holy mackerel! The plot thickens! Here's a whole slew of stuff (via Kos) that sounds awfully plausible suggesting that Nick Berg's on-camera killing was amateurishly faked (at least to me, having not seen the tape). The orange jumpsuit; supposed Arabs with "pasty white hands"; no spurting blood; a dubbed-in scream; curiously fat Iraqis; a one legged assassin who doesn't limp. On and on. So, which spy agency (or lunatic) dreamed it up? How long before this percolates up to mainstream media level?
- tom moody 5-17-2004 10:35 am [add a comment]
interesting. I'm dubious, but then fakes are al the rage. This hoax deemed by Brig Geoff Sheldon, colonel of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment, "a despicable act in an ignoble episode".
- sally mckay 5-17-2004 11:47 am [add a comment]
More on the staged Berg murder video, coming so conveniently after the torture scandal for the screaming heads of the right. I mean, allegedly staged Berg murder video.
- tom moody 5-24-2004 4:45 am [add a comment]
Damn, Bush mentioned Nick Berg in the third paragraph of his speech last night articulating the current "plan" for Iraq (kill/maim/build a high security prison). So here's the theory: Berg is US agent killed in the line of duty. Using his already dead body, the Government clumsily fakes a video of his death, which many doctors, among others, say is bogus. Purpose: (a) distract public from Abu Ghraib photos; (b) make it look like al-Qaeda is alive and well and thriving in Iraq. But, this still raises the question: why didn't the Gov't fake some WMDs?
- tom moody 5-25-2004 9:54 pm [add a comment]