Posted on 05/13/2004 8:35:22 PM PDT by SeenTheLight
Curiouser and curiouser.
I'm beginning to get a sense of what the tinfoil left is thinking. Nick was doing resistence work, probably trying to form a secret relationship with AQ in Iraq. Nick's dad is convinced that the U.S. Somehow tricked AQ into thinking he was working for us.
Hence all the confusing mumbo jumbo about Nick being AQ's best friend.
In reality, AQ probably thought he was untrustworthy and therefore expendable.
Dad's problem is that this scenerio does not win any sympathy, even if the U.S. did set the kid up.
No way!
I don't think the Prmometheus Radio project and Berg are related.
BTW I've found some additional info that certifies Berg's qualifications as a tower guy.
From Elmira NY:
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When Nick Berg returned to the U.S. from Iraq in January, he wanted to grow his business, Prometheus Methods Tower Service. He was hired by WHWK FM radio in Binghamton to install an antenna on top of a transmission tower.
"Nick was an ambitious type person. The tower business is very competitive, there many firms out there, but not many are willing to go to Iraq," says Larry Hodge.
Hodge hired Berg at the end of February. He finished the job March 12, and went back to Iraq two days later.
Berg spent 3 weeks in Binghamton working on the tower. In the middle of a freezing winter, working 850 feet in the air is a dangerous job.
"He was fearless. When it came to climbing, he was fearless," says Hodge. Hodge believes it was that same fearless spirit that led him back to Iraq.
"He was over there to look for sub-contract business for his company. That business was very very important to him and he was determined to build it up," says Hodge.
So I think we can establish that Berg really was a tower pro. You don't go up 900 feet in the winter unless you know what you are doing. But, If he was working alone, I think this would also establish his credentials as reckless and/or careless. Which could account for his being captured by Al Queida.
A local newscaster on WMAL here in D.C. said that Nick Berg had painted a radio tower for them last year in Maryland. I can't remember the town's name. It was a D.C. suburb.
No, Oswald WAS pro Castro. The problem with seeing conspiracies all the time is you take the obvious and make it the opposite.
Yeah, I know. I hadn't heard about the connection with the mutt Zacarias Moussaoui (how can that be a coincidence) and sort of grasped at straws.
Doesn't mean Nick was complicit, either. Possible that Nick (and his dad) were set up by someone. Dunno. But that "somehow got his e-mail password" line sounds really strange. Cherche la femme? We'll never know.
I think it was wierd that before he left his uncle that he sent HIM up with an email account. He sure sets up a lot of email accounts.
Hi there, missing dot.
I thought it odd that his father would have admitted something like that, and now I'm even more unsure it's true. Based on everything he and the rest of the family have said and done the last couple of days, I doubt he was a supporter. They killed their best friend indeed. Still no justification for what happened to him though.
I watched it once and that was my impression too. He shrugs his shoulders a couple of times, and just kinda looks like he's waiting for the speech to end. He also has a very comfortable look in the still photos too. Weird was my feelings....
Re#42 You're probably right.
True enough. Friend of mine used to do it until his brother fell 500 ft. and died.
bump for later
Sounds likely to me. I'm not so sure he and his family weren't unwitting liberal dupes to the forces against us over there.
I hate to agree with anything out of Aztlan, but I thought the same thing when I first saw it. His body was supposedly beaten pretty badly. I wondered if the time jump in the film didn't account for them beating and torturing him. That might have been their original intention, to beat him on camera and film it to gain sympathy. He could have died, and they made the use of it by beheading his body. He couldn't have been dead too long, because the blood hadn't coagulated yet.
The only thing that still bothers me, is his jaw and lips seemed to be moving when I first watched it. Then there was no blood spray. Does anyone know how long involuntary spasms continue after death, and what the window is for this and the blood to still flow out after dying?
Imagine you have about 4 full cans of motor oil that you are holding with the tops up in each hand. The tops are off. Then you flip your hands over and pour all the oil out at once. Well, that's about what that looks like. The blood comes out very fast and in a large volume since most of it is in the body and that's where the "pump" is.
WARNING VERY GRAPHIC STILLS FROM THE VIDEO!!!! but u can see alot of other things in these pics that the video does not show.. for instance some sort of brown material is on the floor therefore hard to see the blood BUT U CAN SEE IT VERY WELL IN THESE PICS.. would like to know what else u all see ty :) http://img.guba.com/public/video/d/6e/2000273005m.jpg
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