[American_Centurion]

I wan't some kind of confirmation that Nick was really for the war and President Bush.

I won't take his fathers word for it, it needs to be an independent source. I wonder how he's registered to vote?

Additionally, the information that came out yesterday regarding Nick becoming more religious whilst the rest of his family was non-observant makes me think it could have been simply cover, I dare not say his Rabbi is lying.

There is no chance at all these connections are coincidence. None.

[rintense]

The e-mail, sent to Berg's parents by the U.S. consular officer in Iraq, states, "I have confirmed that your son, Nick, is being detained by the U.S. military in Mosul. He is safe. He was picked up approximately one week ago."

And the minute Berg *may have been* released, father Berg sold his son's arse to his AQ friends.

[Ciexyz]

There's more behind this, there has to be. Nick Berg reportedly carried a Koran and an anti-Semitic document when he was in Iraq. About his days as a college student, how stupid do you have to be to let an Arab foreign student use your computer, during the years when Arab terrorism was burgeoning all over the world? This is beyond belief.

Combined with the anti-Bush bias exhibited by his father, I'm suspicious of the entire family.

[Triple]

In addition to Travis' great scenario, I give you other, (less plausible?) alternatives:

Since there is enough already out there, allow me to speculate on the email account password sharing.

The bad guys have a way to defeat carnivore. The way they do this is by logging into an internet based email account (yahoo email) and composing a message - with no send to address.

save the message and log-off (no send executed)

The message sits on the yahoo server.

The next bad guy logs on to that very email account (note the passing around of Berg's password) reads the message then deletes it.

Carnivore never gets to intercept the email - because it is never sent.

Berg was either used by the bad guys, for his email account (probable), or he was an intelligence asset and this was a setup to access Moussaui's communication network (less than zero probability).

If the later, this guy was a hero - and a new star will go on the wall - with no name attached.

If the former, this guy was today's version Forrest Gump.

Regards,

[RightthinkinAmerican]

I hate to speak ill of the dead, but only an idiot gives out his password.

[TomGuy]

It is amazing how the media (FoxNews primarily, but print reports, too) are playing all this.

Happenstance.....

just happened to meet Moussoussi,
just happened to give him his password,
just happened to be in Iraq,
[FBI also questioned him about possibly being in Iran, per one article]
just happened to be in Africa [weren't some embassies on that continent blown up by al-Qaeda a few years ago?]
just happened to want to leave Iraq but didn't trust to fly, but was willing to drive from Bagdad to Jordan---some 300 miles or so thru desert and Sunni triangle, etc.]

Just alot of happenstance.

And the Daddy Berg is out blaming the Bush administration.

[More dot are surely to come, because the picture is very imcomplete---too many questions exist about Nick Berg and family.]

[FITZ]

"Someone [on the bus] asked to use his computer. College kids do that all the time. It turned out that this guy was a terrorist and he used my son's e-mail, amongst many other students he did that to," said the senior Berg, who spoke yesterday with presidential candidate John Kerry.

And exactly how does the dad know this? If you're in college and you let someone use your computer on a bus, do you write home about it? Do you call up dad and tell him --- 'hey --- I just gave out my password again'?

[ladyinred]

Have all of these other students who let this monster use their email turned up? Have they been questioned? Anyone know? I haven't seen any evidence of that so far.

HMMMM, is right.

[Freesofar]

Ashcroft released a statement today saying he had no knowledge of any connection of Berg to Al Qaeda or any terrorist organization.

But then the CIA or special ops may not communicate every detail of classified field info to the secretary general.

If it serves it's purpose to allow the Berg whacking to "Wag the Donkey" and draw the media poodles off the GrabanArab scandal , then the Berg wacking serves it's purpose well. It connect Al Qaeda to Iraq . Why isn't Bush on TV doing a jig saying "told you so"

Hmmmmm...............

I would be thrilled at the thought that some level of our government could keep a secret of any kind these days.
If the Bergmeister was a double spy then he got paid in full. The Bonus was to help draw the media poodles off our troops.

WILD SPECULATION ALERT ,.... this Abu Garib scandle sure smells like a Larry Flynt production , Throw me a bone here ?
This guy has the ways and mean$ to pull this off.