[Euro-American Scum]

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.

Object lesson for anyone trying to do the same thing in the future: Terrorists don't care about leftist credentials. The only good American is a dead American, in their eyes.

[Free Trapper]

If Berg had been helping the terrorists in any way,he could have been seen as a liability once he had met with them and had more knowledge of them or their operations.

The terrorists might not have trusted him "not" to break when being questioned by our intelligence people if released or killed him on the "slightest possibility" that he was a double agent.