Nick Berg had "coincidental" link to Moussoui

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[justanotherday]

"don't laugh, alot of non PC-techies would do that. Just remove their personal files, and not realize they also have other stuff all over the machine."<p. In this case we're dealing wit a real "techie". To understand towers, radio band-widths, and rf communication requires a nerd with a combined religious/political zeal. It's no laugh.

[Travis McGee]

It's another "coincidence" of the type that took Larry Nichols to a remote Philippine island town at the same time as key AQ members. After he returned, the unemployed Nichols was flush with cash, and knew all about making high grade ANFO explosives.

Just a coincidence.

Sort of like an islamic convert lawyers fingerprints on a detonater bag in Madrid.

Just a coincidence.

[Trinity_Tx]

Thanks for the ping! Wow. This does look ...interesting indeed.

(900+ posts, tho. I dunno where to start! Guess at the beginning, huh. lol )

[zeugma]

Ya caught me short with that bridge photo as well. I recalled that picture from not that long before the story came out and when your comment collided with that image. It was a serious case of "just damn!"

I haven't heard of any pictures of where he was found. Given the ghouls we have in the media, I'm kinda suprised by that.

[TheSpottedOwl]

That is completely plausible, and I want to believe it. Daddy's in ANSWER. His son is a good hearted person raised by a total radical. Poor guy didn't have street smarts, and walked right into hell.

I can totally buy this. If that's you on the tape, rest in peace, Nick. As for Mr. Berg, I'll keep to myself what I'd like to say to him right now. Even though he is acting completely inappropriate, I'm not going to if I can help it.

[Mo1]

Most people make a basic distinction between the two.....

You are right ... most people would

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is no Iraqi .. and he is no friend

[terilyn]

What are the odds, with all the US Military looking for Al-Zarqawi, that this guy just happens to find him after meeting with his uncle...

I'd be looking real close at the uncle if I was in charge...

[P-Marlowe]

But he was known to an extent in the 'industry'.

I don't doubt that this guy worked in the Tower industry. But did he know enough at age 26 about the logistics involved in setting up construction in foreign countries that are, in fact, war zones? Or did he know just enough to pretend that he did?

My guess is that if he was just doing tower work, and repair, he could make about $2.00 per hour in Iraq. He would have to compete with all the locals who did the work before the Americans came. The same work in the US would pay about $100 per hour minimum.

It makes no sense. The only way he could hope to make the kind of money he could make in the US is if he were to contract directly with the Military. And trust me, with his father's credentials, he couldn't land a military contract if he bid out at 50 cents an hour.

[John Lenin]

Thanks for that link, I'm getting some vibes here but will wait for my thoughts to sink in before commenting. I must say it's starting to come together now.

[oceanview]

I know people with PhDs, who can't do anything with a PC, they know nothing about them at the system level.

[madison10]

Thank you for posting these. I agree with you. PFC Maupin has a huge dimple in his chin which, even with a beard, would be difficult to hide. The eyes aren't set the same, either.

The mass of what appears to be very curly hair makes the middle photo look so different from the one of the statestide Nick Berg, but it's probably him.

[PhiKapMom]

Exactly! I am one of these people that do not believe in coincidences! I just read this paragraph in a story about Berg in the Norman Transcript which I should have read this morning. It was put together by AP reporters and the Transcript Staff:

During his time in Iraq, he (Berg) struggled with the Arabid language and worked at night on a two in Abu Ghraib, a site of repeated attacks on U.S. Convoys and the location of the notorious prison where U.S. soldiers abused Iraqi inmates!

[Palladin]

Good information, PKM. It leads me to believe that the links between Moussaoui and berg were not coincidental.

There seems to be quite a terrorist network in Oklahoma.

Time to reopen the investigation into the bombing of the Federal Building?

[Hildy]

I was under the impression that the work was set up before they went over there. That way at least they're accounted for. I can't imagine going over there and looking in the "Help wanted" section. It still makes no sense.

[Southack]

"When Berg helped install a communication system in Kenya last year..."

So this kid was in Kenya, where Al-Qaeda bombed our embassy in 1998, in school at OU in 1999/2000 around the same time as Moussoui (who bought Nick's computer and used his email address), and worked at the Abu Ghraib prison on a tower around the time of the insurgent mortar attacks there?!

His dad is a known ANSWER spokeman, and his uncle by marriage is an Iraqi who lives in Mosul?!

Can we verify these facts? Good grief, next somebody will be telling me that the kid "worked" in Uganda...

"Al Qaeda Still in East Africa

New Vision (Kampala)

April 26, 2004
Posted to the web April 27, 2004

Alfred Wasike And Agencies Kampala

UGANDA and other countries in eastern Africa are under risk of terrorist attacks.

Internal affairs minister Dr Ruhakana Rugunda yesterday called for vigilance, warning people to report any suspicious individuals or situations to the Police and other security agencies.

He said Uganda was at full counter-terrorism alert.

A US State Department official said the US considered eastern Africa as a risky region on the continent for American interests.

"The US interests in this area are the most endangered of all regions in Africa," Ruth Parent, the Africa regional affairs officer in charge of counter-terrorism, told journalists on Friday at the end of a meeting attended by security officials and legal experts from 10 East African countries."

[maggief]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25401-2004May13_2.html

EXCERPT

...One of the people Berg met in Baghdad was Aziz Taee, an Iraqi who studied electrical engineering at Temple University and has lived in the Philadelphia area for most of the past 20 years. Taee is chairman of the Iraqi American Council, a business group based in Annandale that encourages investment in Iraq.

Berg had visited the group's Web site and communicated with Taee by e-mail. When the two men finally met, Taee was impressed enough that he agreed to start a small company with Berg, called Shirikat Abraj Babil, or Babylon Towers Co.

They printed business cards advertising their services in installing, inspecting and repairing telecommunications and utility towers. They rented a small corner office on the second floor of a building in Jamiaa, a neighborhood near Baghdad University.

Taee, 40, said he sometimes worried about his 26-year-old associate, who would wander freely around Baghdad.

"He had a short haircut, like the Marines, and he was well-built," Taee said. "Most people thought that he was an Army guy in civilian clothes. He took a lot of risks. He was a guy who loved adventure and risk."

Wearing a large tool belt and using metal grippers and rope, Berg began climbing transmission towers, taking photographs of structural damage that he would later show to prospective clients. The work, which was itself dangerous, took him to hostile areas.

Once, he climbed a tower in Abu Ghraib, an impoverished western suburb of Baghdad infamous as the site of Iraq's largest prison. A local farmer became enraged, thinking that Berg was trying to steal parts of the already damaged structure.

Another time, Berg was briefly detained in the southern city of Diwaniyah by Iraqi police who became suspicious when they noticed an American traveling alone. Berg also was robbed one night in Baghdad near his hotel, Taee said.
(snip)

[terilyn]

Headlining as endorsers of International A.N.S.W.E.R.'s March on DC were Hollywood's finest -- Michael Moore, Janeane Garofalo, Jessica Lange, and Mike Farrell. Aligned with them to stop war and racism were Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. The endorser list, which is identical to that of United for Peace, would certainly make Mr. Debs proud.

http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/rerickson/2004/re_0412.shtml

[oceanview]

you can script that login. is it browser based? the browsers can store the password and enter them.

[PhiKapMom]

Check out my post #952 -- just read this paragraph in the article compiled the Transcript staff -- their site is down so I don't know if the article is online or not but it has some interesting info in it!

[little jeremiah]

You said:

"Uncle is a naturalized Iraqi."

Naturalized from what?