Posted on 05/13/2004 8:35:22 PM PDT by SeenTheLight
If so, is this what Anne Coulter meant when she said that we needed to kill liberals?
I think he was calm, because he thought he was just participating in making a propaganda hostage video. The English speaker among the killers had probably calmed him down: "Don't worry Nick, everything will be fine. We make movie, then we eat lunch, no problem, okay?"
Someone else posted that was another person. Not Berg. Which makes sense since I think I saw the picture you are referring to (can't find it) and Berg had pants and a shirt on. Why would they dress him in the nice clean orange outfit then kill him then take the orange outfit off then put his clothes back on?
Interesting. Berg's traveling does have questions that need answering.
Somebody in that group obviously has a lot of experience in the logistics involved in setting up those towers. Somebody in that group has done everything in the business for years and is not a 26 year old with a sketchy work history.
You don't just use a hammer and a screwdriver to put up a communications tower. You've got to truck in the materials, hire cranes, and sometimes helicopters, lay huge concrete foundations, set guy wires and lay the foundations for the guy wires and carefully tighten those guy wires so the structure doesn't collapse. Then you have to install the electrical systems and the generators and transmitters and antennas. No one person could possibly do all that. It takes a Village.
Your buddy is traveling with a "Group". Its probably a group of 10-20. And they probably get the business lined up before they ever leave the states. This guy was traveling alone. He had no prospects before he arrived in Iraq. Big difference.
Someone in another thread this after posted that Nick was receiving '11,000 pounds per month.' I assume the information was from a British publication (use of 'pounds' currency).
If true, that is a heck of an amount of money to just travel around Iraq. And who was paying it to Berg? Did he have active contracts or was it strictly freelance?
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During the last couple of days, more questions than answers have arisen surrounding Nick Berg.
Cameras, and targeting.
Keep your own insurgent eye in the sky, watching for the American convoys comings and goings.
It's a reach, but not impossible.
His father was referring to the Iraqis when he said, "they killed their best friend" but I think it was a mistake. He had to have known it was al-Qaeda. Of course, he's now running around blaming Bush, so I suppose anything's possible...
Good catch...my bad...your right.
That was my take as soon as DFU posted that Berg Senior was an ANSWER man.
Plus, I thought Michael "doth protest too much" that his son was a Bush man.
A) Being young and a liberal is, by far, the norm.
B) How many young, gung ho Republicans go to Africa to build mud huts....give away all he owns and returns emaciated?
Possible....yes.
Probable....no.
I've read some of the chapters on line when you first published it. I'll have to buy it now. Its beginning to sound like a book of prophecy. Did you have a vision?
my bet was that he did the japanese hostage thing where he said.. okay guys you pretend like I am your hostage and we'll demand release of our guys.... then I will go back to the US and tell them how nice you were....( just like his dad did)....
But like Hans in DIE HARD... it was method acting.
Bingo. Like I said, he was buying whatever they were selling. But why? Again, if he was so "intelligent" he had to have known he was in danger. If he believed he was not in danger then that opens up many questions.
What Codeflier said.
His father listed Prometheus Tower as his place of business when he signed the anti war list. Has anyone found out what he did for the company?
Folks, this is why the information age is grand. There was a time when we would not be able to exchange news sources and expound on theories and critique one another's logic so quickly. It is no wonder that the International Left wants to tax and regulate the internet.
Good post. But did the FBI really visit Berg's family in the 13 days that he was being detained? Is this in the news lately?
Question: in post-Saddam Iraq, who exactly owns the towers? Who do you take your business proposals to?
Totally leaping to conclusions here, but Berg's company name: Prometheus Methods Tower Service Inc
Prometheus the one (from Greek mythology who stole fire from the gods and gave it to man? The Greek poet Hesiod described Prometheus as a trickster and a troublemaker.
Seeing Anything to do with fire and towers in the same sentence and related to someone who had a "coincidental" connection to the "20th Highjacker" and was beheaded in Iraq by AQ terrorists....
This is truly pegging my weird-$hit-o-meter
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