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Seems like it.
And here's an article (opens a new window) that says:

Nicholas Berg came to Iraq hoping to win a contract to help rebuild communications antennas destroyed during last year's invasion. Friends and family said he was a "free spirit" who wanted to help others - working in Ghana, in one example - and that his going to Iraq fit with that ideology. They said he supported the Iraqi war and the Bush administration.

Over the past year, the Commerce Department has conducted a three-continent campaign to promote investment and reconstruction opportunities. It was at one of those conferences that Berg was inspired to go to Baghdad, his family said. He dreamed of building radio towers in Iraq that would beam reports from a free press.

According to his family, Berg met other businessmen at the conference who asked him to inspect radio towers damaged during the war. Berg hoped to make a bid for his company, Prometheus Methods Tower Service Inc., to provide parts and repair services.

Berg's mother said she had begged him to change his mind about the trip. "We definitely did not want him to go," she said. But Berg decided the potential business was worth the risk.

With regard to his travel, it says:

After an FBI agent visited the family home to check his story and the family filed suit in a Philadelphia court to force his release, Berg was freed in Mosul on April 6. But he had missed his scheduled March 30 flight home and returned to Baghdad, telling his family he was looking for the safest way out of the country.

Iraq was seeing a wave of kidnappings of foreigners, dozens of whom were seized by the middle of the month. Berg's father said the State Department, and a private investigator hired by the family, checked at Berg's hotel in Baghdad but could find no news of him.