Posted on 06/11/2004 8:07:26 AM PDT by quidnunc
Following the beheading of Nicholas Berg in May by terrorist Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi, the killing became the latest in a long line of conspiracy theories which have emerged from the Arab and Iranian media.
Ibrahim Al-Fayoumi, a member of Egypt's Al-Azhar Islamic university, stated on May 12th that the beheading of any person, dead or alive, is forbidden by Islamic law, but that he thought that the Berg case was "American propaganda to divert from the [Abu Ghureib] scandal."
An article titled "The Unexamined Life of Nicholas Berg," which appeared in the Saudi daily Arab News on May 21, questioned Nick Berg's presence in Iraq, alluding to his alleged connections to the Mossad as a "communication spy." The article also placed doubt on Al-Zarqawi's involvement in Berg's murder.
The Iranian daily Tehran Times of May 18th included an article which called the Berg beheading a fraud: "Not only were the purported screams of Nick Berg not in synchrony with the decapitation, but there was also a total lack of blood ... We forwarded the video to … a forensic expert… He wrote back … that in his opinion the video is a fraud…" The paper cited 'La Voz de Aztlan' as its source. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the L.A.-based paper is "the racist and antisemitic Web magazine of a tiny group of extremist Chicanos."
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Wacko bump.
Even though I have this clip on my harddrive. I refuse to watch it again to see if the screams align with the sawing of the neck.
The Arabs like conspiracy theories. Take the Jenin "massacre." You don't have to be right or factual to do damage... perhaps something Michael Moore learned.
I'm really getting sick of Islam and Muslims.
Not only was he beheaded, it was ritualistic. A blood sacrifice.
Me too, they are always picked on and always misunderstood. Sigh
I expect this reasoning to be picked up by Democrat politicians and their media acolytes.
There are still some imbecils who deny holocaust...
"It wasn't our fault. The dang thing just fell off. Could happen to anybody."
If he wasnt beheaded, how did his head come off the body which was identified as his?
Already was.
Fourteen seconds deleted from the video near the end will show the knife changing hands, being offered to the person in the black garb with the white diaper on his head. The high priest, accepting the honor of the sacrifice, makes the final cut and raises the head to his god.
'Cuz everyone knows "Allah Boys" never tell a lie.
If only both would simply...vanish.
Ibrahim Al-Fayoumi, a member of Egypt's Al-Azhar Islamic university, stated on May 12th that the beheading of any person, dead or alive, is forbidden by Islamic law, but that he thought that the Berg case was "American propaganda to divert from the [Abu Ghureib] scandal."Those wily Americans. I suspect they crashed their own aircraft into their trade towers. Next they will burn their cities, kill all their men in combat, and rape or sell into slavery their surviving women and girls JUST TO DISCREDIT ISLAM!--when everyone knows that killing and raping and rapine are forbidden by Islamic law.
I have it on my hard drive too. While bored at work, a collegue of mine and I watched it many times. We noticed that the time of the beheading was about an hour before the long rambling speach. . .just an observation. . .
I'll take your word for it.
me three...
Another whopper from the Religion of Peace.
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