Nicholas Berg: The Dots Do Not Connect

ChronWatch.com ^ | 5-13-04 | Ira Simmons

[COUNTrecount]

The computer Nick Berg had with him in Iraq should yield a treasure trove of information.Hopefully we have been able to retreive it.

[P-Marlowe]

I found a picture of Berg at the PAB Engineering conference. It looks like this guy is legitimate. Here he is showing off his BOVL Blocks

Apparently this guy was some kind of engineering genius.

[P-Marlowe]

[1066AD]

There used to be quite a good sized jewish community in Iraq. It started to unravel in the six days war, all Iraqi Jews overseas were drafted, the penalty for refusal was death, many were murdered anyway. We had two brothers at (UK) college who could never go home, I think they went to Canada in the end.

[P-Marlowe]

So you think the "Prometheus Radio Project" ---the group that I presume is the lefty-propanda group---and Berg's "Prometheus Methods Tower" business is connected?

No. Not at all.

[zimdog]

How is Uganda a hotbed of al-Qa'ida activity?

[HenryLeeII]

e) Because he belongs to a far-left peace group and was known to authorities, Nicholas Berg's father likely raised a red flag and was a possible reason that the FBI visited the family in suburban Philadelphia at least three times during the 13 days that Berg was detained.

That's the only part I don't accept or agree with. The more likely reason for the FBI visiting his family's home in West Chester is the fact that agents had met with him while he was in Iraqi custody in Mosul three times, and were probably as puzzled as to what he was up to as we are. They were probably asking the father to help fill in the blanks, and probably also just "checking in" with the family since their son was being detained in a war-torn foreign country, although I doubt Michael Berg would give them credit for that level of humanity. His (the father's) membership/support with International ANSWER probably wouldn't be enough on its own to spark a visit.

But, with the new detail coming out about his former uncle who is an Iraqi, and the possiblity that he purchased a computer for Moussaoui, this is getting curiouser and curiouser.

[HenryLeeII]

If our speculations turn out to be untrue you've got yourself a plot for a best selling novel. If our speculations here are true, then your novels are going to have to be moved to the non-fiction department.

These are some screwy times we live in, aren't they?

[razorback-bert]

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[P-Marlowe]

There was nobody listed at the Prometheus Radio Group by the name of Berg. Prometheus Radio group appears to be a company set up by an old pirate radio fanatic that got shut down by the FCC and formed a group to get low power FM licences into the hands of like minded individuals and groups.

Prometheus Towers appears to be the brainchild of Nick Berg and his father was apparently working for Nick, not the other way around.

I'm beginning to think that if Nick Berg was on anyone's spy list, he was one of ours. But I'm also beginning to conclude that he was legitimately trying to drum up business for himself in Iraq. A lot of Americans made a lot of money doing this work in East Europe after the wall came down. Maybe he thought he could get in on the ground floor in Iraq.

But Nick Berg's link with Moussoui and his Father's link to Commie peacenicks and Al Queida apologists is troubling. But then again my father and I differed dramatically politically when I was Nick's age. Only back then I was the commie and my dad was the conservative.

[faithincowboys]

No Oswald wasn't--he was ordered to appear that way. He was really close with one of the men who trained the anti-Castro freedom fighters. He thought Kennedy was an appeaser after leaving the cubans in the lurch at the Bay of Pigs--that's why he killed Kennedy!!

[Travis McGee]

Nobody is denying Nick was a fearless tower climber. But I think Prometheus is the key.

[Travis McGee]

This was not a "guillotine chop" with the head suddenly severed, and full blood pressure shooting out of the severed neck.

This was a hack and slice job, with the victim held down on the carpet. You can see the spreading blood lake. The blood is exiting massively while Berg's head is still roughly in place. By the time the head is taken off, he is mostly exsanguinated, and there is no blood pressure left to cause "guillotine" blood spurting.

[Travis McGee]

See my last about the blood.

[Travis McGee]

So the two *unrelated* Prometheus groups are just another one of those incredible coincidences which seem to dog Nick "Forrest Gump" Berg?

[Travis McGee]

To: Travis McGee
I think these are the same guys, but I can't find the Berg's name anywhere, but on the home page, they mention just getting back from Guatemala (wasn't Nick Berg there?) and it is fow low powered FM stations, and they are located in PA.

Here's a start:
http://www.prometheusradio.org/

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143 posted on 05/14/2004 9:47:50 AM PDT by eyespysomething (The Barbarians are at the Gates. Don't give Kerry the key!)

[Travis McGee]

Check the prometheus link to "nonviolence.org" at the bottom of the last post. Sure sounds like another ANSWER front or affiliate organ!!!!!

Damn, those pesky coincidences just keep hammering poor Nick!