1. You're right on this.
2. Also right.
3. Um, check the OTHER photographs of Nick Berg. Not just the baldy-with-glasses(and heavy glare) one. Check out his HS yearbook(i assume that's what it is) photo. Hell, check a photo of me then look at a bad video tape. I've been told I look like a white boy, mixed, hispanic, a lil like OJ simpson!
4. His father is a leftist. My cousin is a raging anti-Bush guy. My grandparents made a turn to the left as they got older. My mother and I are staunch right-wingers. So what?
5. Did you look at the Abu Ghraib photos. These Arab men are not small and slight. They are definitely of average or even bulky build. Osama is 6-4!
6. As for the editing who knows? Maybe they didn't need to have anything in it but the 'Statement' and they tried to make it a clean jump from the statement to the cutting but failed. Does it matter?