[Southack]

"If Berg made contact with these creeps in college, then he'd continue using his own name."

Yes, but if he was CIA he would have been issued a new passport that didn't have his visa stamp in it from his visit to Israel.

What you've got to remember is that "covers" are designed or sought out for the group being infiltrated (by both sides).

American, Jewish, and telecommunications expert does NOT lend to infiltrating an Al-Qaeda cell cold.

But American, Jewish, and telecommunications expert does lend itself to convincing Americans to let you do work inside their secure compounds.

[lelio]

American, Jewish, and telecommunications expert does NOT lend to infiltrating an Al-Qaeda cell cold.

With my tinfoil hat firmly in place: Nick could of acted like he was a naive idealistic cell phone repair man with an ANSWER dad to make AQ think they could turn him. He offers to AQ to be the lookout on cell phone towers, but in reality he's getting intel to report back to the CIA.

Granted, I don't believe that. But this is getting weird.

[veronica]

Yeah right. The conspiracy theories are getting NUTTIER by the hour, and I did not expect to see them on FR....