Posted on 05/29/2004 4:43:14 AM PDT by Raebie
Posted on Fri, May. 28, 2004 Berg's sister confused over Moore's taped interview
BY WILLIAM BUNCH
Knight Ridder Newspapers
PHILADELPHIA - (KRT) - The sister of Nick Berg, the contractor from the Philadelphia suburbs who was beheaded earlier this month in Iraq, says she's dumbfounded by reports that liberal icon Michael Moore had filmed an interview with her late brother for his new anti-war film.
"I'm very skeptical of this," said Sara Berg, a Virginia attorney whose brother's beheading sparked a global uproar.
But she said there was no way to confirm that Moore had sent a tape of the reported 20-minute interview to their parents' home in West Chester, as the filmmaker suggested in a statement Thursday, because the couple has been away.
Moore's acknowledgment that he had interview footage of Berg that had been shot - but not used - for his highly controversial "Fahrenheit 9/11" documentary may be the strangest twist yet in the increasingly weird saga of Berg and his Iraqi travels, which led to his slaying.
The initial story that touched off the controversy appeared Thursday on the online magazine Salon.com.
It said the interview took place in the United States late last year, before Berg, a radio-tower technician, made the first of two trips to Iraq seeking work there as a private contractor.
So, how would a completely unknown young wannabe contractor like Berg come to the attention of Moore, whose anti-President Bush screed "Dude, Where's My Country?" was the best-selling book in the nation at the time?
Stranger than that: Why would Moore or his crew interview Berg for "Fahrenheit 9/11" for 20 minutes, when Berg's family insists the slain contractor was pro-Bush and supported the American military action in Iraq?
The film, which just took top honors at the Cannes Film Festival, blasts Bush and shows graphic war footage from Iraq.
We may never know the answers, because Berg is dead and Moore says he has no plans to release the interview footage to the public.
"We have an interview with Nick Berg," Moore's terse statement said. "It was approximately 20 minutes long. We are not releasing it to the media. It is not in the film. We are dealing privately with the family."
Friends of Berg, the Henderson High School grad, say he was an adventurous, inventive and perhaps naive young man who simply wanted to help in the rebuilding of Iraq but disregarded safety warnings, traveling solo and in private taxis.
Berg was arrested by Iraqi police on March 24, held in custody for 13 days, and released - only to disappear again on April 10. His headless body was found on a Baghdad overpass on May 8, three days before the video of the decapitation was posted.
Despite some contradictory evidence, the CIA claims the execution was done by an al Qaeda terrorist, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Since then, some have questioned why Berg had been in Iraq, as well as some of his strange connections.
The FBI questioned Berg in 2002 to find out why his e-mail password had ended up with an Oklahoma terror suspect linked to al Qaeda terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui.
In Iraq, Berg partnered with an ex-Philadelphia Iraqi expatriate who'd been convicted in a Russian-exile crack-vial ring before becoming the highly visible leader of an anti-Saddam Hussein group backed by the Bush administration.
Hopefuly a door will open now.....Nick Berg was NOT as he was portrayed,
Moore is an opportunist and a media wh)re...I'm sure this is another lie of his.
Why would he lie aboutt this? I know he is a media whore but this is just too sick to lie about. His lying would cause so much further greif to an already taxed family.
What is a crack-vial ring?
>Berg partnered with an ex-Philadelphia Iraqi expatriate who'd
>been convicted in a Russian-exile crack-vial ring before
>becoming the highly visible leader of an anti-Saddam Hussein
>group backed by the Bush administration.
Double agent?
Curioser and curioser; but at least anything that Moorey the Hutt says is a lie, that's one thing we can be sure of.
why you ask? because he is a sick individual...
This would suggest that the estemed Michael Moore (Palm d'Or, doncha know) might be lying, a suggestion I could never seriously entertain!!
Huh? The first I heard of this. What evidence? Who are they saying did it?
I don't know if you picked this one up yet.
I don't believe anything MM puts out there. He is just trying to hype his stupied documentary. I hope terrorists kill him.
Berg's father is a known political operative for the Left. His son was up to something. The public bitterness of the father is way beyond normal bounds, and it suggests that a struggle is occuring in the espionage world that both sides don't want the public to know about.
Berg's dad knows something but can't discuss it because it would totally destroy the left, and his son died because of it. Our military intelligence may have tried to warn Berg to get out of Iraq, but may have deftly left him open to exposure and kidnapping because they knew he was actively suverting our military. Our enemies, knowing that Berg's cover was blown, had one final use for him.
Imagine a kind of espionage/political fandango being waged here/ a kind of stale mating of forces...! Berg's father is grieving and pissed but can do nothing and say nothing with-out blowing his cover as to what his son was truly doing...he knew and he also knows that our intelligence knows..but no one can say a word!
That is my take on what was going on in the Berg case(I do hope I'm wrong)...and if true...I hope the dad suffers a long time with the knowledge of his son's death and the true reasons for it...eating away at him like a slow caustic poison!
stupied
Speaking of stupid.
Yep...the top of a radio tower is a good place to survey the landscape. And isn't the lamestream media's silence on why Berg was in Iraq deafening?
Do you really think this would bother Michael Moore? Do you think he would even consider this? NO WAY.
Last sentence may be new information.
"The initial story that touched off the controversy appeared Thursday on the online magazine Salon.com."
I seriously believe Michael Moore is nothing more than a habitual liar who has succeeded in garning attention to himself by using sensationalistic fabrications. Hey look, it's worked so far. If people would "ignore" him he'd go away like a deflating blimp in a wind storm. The MOORE you feed the pig the more gluttonous he becomes.
"Why would he lie aboutt this? I know he is a media whore but this is just too sick to lie about"
Nothing is ever too sick for low life hacks craving attention. Habitual liars are extremely narcissistic.
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