I'm sorry to repeat myself, but in the context of how this kid was killed, how is possible for his father to use the phrase best friend? I can't fathom it under any circumstances whatsoever.
If he was referring to Iraqis as those to whom he would have been a best friend, the butchery was not claimed by the 'Iraqis', it was claimed by an arm of Al Qaeda, wasn't it? So when he says they killed their best friend, what's he referring to? I mean maybe I have the thing wrong, and I'd like to know if I do. Nonetheless very, very strange.
I also want to say that I'm not trying to minimize this kid's horrific death, at all, and I don't think anyone else who is speculating is either. It's really unrealistic to expect people to dismiss these coincidences so easily. I don't think this thread is all that tin foiley really.
"If he was referring to Iraqis as those to whom he would have been a best friend."
I didn't hear Berg Sr.'s rant and do not care to. I understand he blamed Bush and Rumsfield. To those of you who heard his rant, is it possible he meant Bush and Rummy killed their best friend?
He could have been kind of a naive and adventuresome type being used by Al Queda. I'm sure in college a lot of us talked with foreigners --- found them interesting --- some of our "friends" might have been involved in serious politics back home. He's working in communications which could make him quite useful --- and he could be used by his friends who never really trust him one way or the other. The FBI questions him now and then --- he's not committing treason or doing anything wrong but they're watching him because of those friendships, maybe work relationships he had created. He could himself have been pretty a-political but getting used --- especially for technical expertise.