Tue, May. 11, 2004
Pennsylvania community shocked by Nick Berg's death
BY SANDY BAUERS
Knight Ridder Newspapers
WEST CHESTER, Pa. - (KRT) - If Nick Berg had a tragic flaw, his father thinks he knows what it was.
"He believed in people," Michael Berg said Tuesday, shortly after learning that his son had been beheaded in Iraq. "He wanted to help people."
Whatever came up, "he thought he could handle it," Michael said. "That was both the good - and the demise - of him. He didn't believe that people would do things."
Those who knew Nick Berg, 26, remembered him as a complex man - funny, outgoing, dramatic, compassionate, inquisitive, inventive and extremely bright. Above all, they remembered him as a humanitarian who wanted to make the world better.
He played the tuba in high school and traveled to Third World countries with only a small backpack, taking only barest essentials because he felt material things got in the way.
Berg felt comfortable with strangers, his family said.
"I think part of what got him into trouble was that he wasn't afraid to be in with groups that most Americans won't be with," said his mother, Suzanne. "And I don't think he understood the danger of ... traveling with non-Americans. That's probably what killed him. He was probably in a group of non-Americans and stood out like a sore thumb."
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http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/8643309.htmSounds like he was a turncoat spy armed with a cell phone who outlived his usefulness to the enemy.
Homeless? where did he get food? why was he there? could he have been doing expert cell phone work for the enemy ?