[Rokurota]

Yet - why would they kill one of their own?

As the theory goes...they found out he was Jewish...visited Israel...assumed he was a double agent for Mossad.

[syriacus]

It's odd that they didn't make Nick Berg say he was Jewish and his parents were Jewish and they had visited Israel. Daniel Pearl had to say that before he was beheaded.

http://www.israelnewsagency.com/pearlisrael.html

''My name is Daniel Pearl. I'm a Jewish American from ... Encinco, California, USA. I come from, on my father's side, a family of Zionists. My father is Jewish. My mother is Jewish. I'm Jewish. My family follows Judaism. We've made numerous family visits to Israel.''