One purely speculative theory of mine is this:
Berg was in Iraq with the comm tower non-job for cover-for-action to travel around odd places.
His real mission was to act as a messenger, trying to become a go-between from Int'l A.N.S.W.E.R. to Al Queda. I mean, ANSWER can't exactly just pick up a phone to call Al Queda. To communicate with them, you have to GO to where they ARE, and fish around dropping hints, until you're picked up.
That's when you tell them the glorious news: you have come from a group "allied in the struggle against the Western imperialists" yadda yadda. You have a message, and an offer to coordinate activities, or perhaps hints on how to tweak their operations for the best effect, IOW, what and when to pull an operation which will result in the defeat of George W. Bush in November.
You expect to be treated fairly well, perhaps roughed up like the fake Japanese hostages/peace activists. After all, you can't talk to Al Queda, and just walk away like nothing happened.
But they saw the Jewish name Berg, and the Israeli passport stamp, and that trumped his ANSWER credentials. When the AG Prison scandal hit the papers.... Nick went on to serve a higher Al Queda purpose: human sacrifice on film.
That's why Daddy Berg (Mr. ANSWER) said "They killed their best friend."
The above is pure speculation on my part.
Occam's Razor is definately a friend of yours.
>The above is pure speculation on my part.
Pretty good speculation. It's the Daniel Perl syndrome. Perl believed his leftist credentials and pro-Pali sympathies protected him in arab areas and allowed him special access to terrorists.
But the video shows a beard and hair!
Part of my job is to constantly send engineers to Iraq. And Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo and other popular tourist destinations.
They do not just drive over the border. The formalities are a royal pain in the @$$. Berg's story is goofy from the word go.
I wondered about this too....after all, one reason the Japenese hostages were sent home in disgrace is that they were trying this trick
And I wonder about a man who went to Africa to "teach" villagers to make bricks...DUH. Africans have been making bricks for hundreds of years. The only difference is that you now put cement in the bricks, or you kiln them, to make them stronger (Our mission high school taught brick making to the technical student). And why would an electronics person "teach brickmaking" which is a different skill entirely....
Travis, that makes sense.
Don't let the coincedences go by without challenging them. Berg had contact with associates of Al Queda near a flight school. One of these associates used his computer.
This is a country of 300,000,000 people, yet a guy who got his head chopped off by Al Queda IS THE SAME GUY who's computer was used by an Al Queda operative before 9/11.
The odds of that are pretty low. (Understatement of the year).
Here's a question for everyone to ponder: Is it possible that Berg was a contact for Al Queda cells in the US, and when he was arrested and questioned in Iraq, the terrorists realized he had been compromised so they killed him at a convienent time?
Not only that but wouldn't the typical Muslim Jihadi mindset fall along the lines of "we don't need no steenking help killing all you infidels?"