Video on Islamic militant Web site appears to show beheading of American

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Video on Islamic militant Web site appears to show beheading of American

[eastforker]

This is not the time to raise your finger in the air and see the direction the political wind is blowing. Kill em on the battlefield and quit playing the demorats war that the media likes to play. Quit wringing your hands and demand that our soldiers inflict maximum overwhelming force on the enemy that will engulf us if we don't. Sounds like you want to fight a PR war, I do not. I want the Islamifacist killed so they do not breed more islamifacist. I want the chain broken so it can never be relinked.

[YaYa123]

I was confused too. Just what I've been able to piece together, but I'm not certain I have it right:
Berg went to Iraq looking for work. He was picked up by Iraqi police and American military, in a sweep, questioned, and turned loose. He was warned it was dangerous and advised to go home. I think one report said he was going to do that, but before he could, he was captured by these people.

26 years old, very young...I can't even imagine someone going to Iraq to work without having a job nailed down first, from an American company. Does this even make sense? Not to me.

[Starve The Beast]

They've [the terrorists] just gone from sympathetic martyrs to bloodthirsty ghouls in a week.

I take your point, and I hope you're right. But I think that the mainstream media will do everything in their power to spin this as a failure of the Bush administration, not as the act of a bunch of savages. And I can't help thinking that that's what the savages had in mind.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

I just received a reply from Hillary's office, stating that they cannot read or respond to out-of-state e-mail.

Make sure, then, you list your state of residence as NY.

[txradioguy]

Drudge has a video still of the thugs leaning Mr. Berg over in preparation to murder him.

[kcvl]

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[Polybius]

Thank you CBS. Thank you Senator Ted Kennedy. Thank you Hillary Clinton. Thank you John Kerry. Thank you General Taguba. Don't leave out the "honorable" (sarcasm) Mark Dayton Don't forget the idiot troops without whose activity the above would have nothing to talk about. All are responsible

General Taguba conducted an Army Regulation 15-6 Investigation as required under the UCMJ. His report keep the sensationalist photos classified.

He did his duty and he did it well.

Everyone else you mentioned had a part in the orgy of sensationalism associated with the photo release and their cubsequent use to further political agendas.

[texasbluebell]

It also looks like he has been seriously tortured, possibly had his genitals burned off.

What I read a couple of weeks ago, a comment by another freeper: That the way these bastards kill the infidel is to first force them to say some stupid "prayer" that makes the person automatically become a convert to islam (so they say), then they castrate the victim without any anesthetic, and THEN they cut the throat.

When I've read of other bodies that have been found "mutilated", now I simply assume it to mean they've been castrated.

[weegee]

Online, yes:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/11/iraq.main/index.html

[Colonel_Flagg]

I wasn't speaking for myself.

Understood. Just venting on my end. Hope you don't mind.

And how cowardly are these guys? They think they're so macho and they go after women and contractors (without proper armor or weaponry).

And they kill an innocent man with their own faces covered. Real brave.

[weegee]

Wouldn't want an infidel to get any of those virgins in the afterworld...

[Howlin]

But they are not reporting it on the shows?

[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[Quilla]

Thank you for your reply. I will consider your comments before making a final decision; however, I completely agree with the method of retaliation you recommend. Frankly, I hope this murder will p!ss off the powers that be - to the point they will bring the hammer down.

[Republican Red]

I purposefully turned on CNN earlier and I did not see them report this story. I have Cavuto on now so if they have since shown it I am not aware.

The CNN guy who I spoke with said they had reported on it but "they couldn't play it over and over". That's when I lost it and yelled at the guy. He then hung up on me.

[txradioguy]

Thank kcvl. One part of the site wasn't loading properly when I was there. Must have been a server overload from people trying to look at the video.

Fox is saying that al-Zarqawi (UBL lieutenant) is responsible for the murder. He's also being blamed for a lot of attacks in Iraq right now too. Good thing the RATS were correct and there were NO AL-QUEDA TIES TO IRAQ!!!

[prairiebreeze]

Nick Berg's dad is involved with ANSWER as I understand it. Which makes your question about why to go there without an already secured position even more puzzling. BTW, the family blames Bush.

Prairie

[YaYa123]

CBS affiliate, Philadelphia
Southeast PA Man Missing In Iraq
May 7, 2004 5:27 pm US/Eastern
"PHILADELPHIA (KYW 1060) Among those missing in Iraq is a West Chester, Pa. man who went there on his own in March to inspect damaged radio towers. Now, his parents, who haven't heard from him in a month are worried, and aren't getting a lot of help in their quest to track him down. 26-year-old Nick Berg didn't sign a privacy waiver when he went over there.

And even though the State Department is using its one person in Iraq to help track him down, they can't tell anyone, including Berg's parents what's going on. And that frustrates his mother Susanne.

"I'm just really scared, because we haven't heard from him for a month, and truthfully, nobody can even tell us whether he's dead or alive." The local congressional delegation hasn't gotten any answers, either.

Nick last checked in April 9th, saying he was trying to find a safe way home following two weeks of FBI interrogation, after an arrest in Mosul. He was released after his identity and intentions were confirmed."

[txradioguy]

YOu are correct. I am under the assumption from listening to the SecDef's testimony that someone got ahold of the TOP SECRET report issued by Gen. Taguba and leaked it to the press. Hitlery BOASTED of knowing more about the report than Rummy did.

[CatoRenasci]

Would that the world were a place where we didn't have to view such things and consider such extreme measures against those who allow themselves to be even remotely associated with the ideology that condones such inhumanity!