Very interesting points and shows he was into electronics which makes the OU professor's statements about a phoney brick even more odd. If he was an electronics guy, why would he be doing something like a phoney brick. Not to mention the profs didn't remember him for sometime and now know him completely.
I am of the theory that Moussaoui was in Norman/OKC area several times before they declare he was here in Feb 2001.
1. Given Nick Berg's history as described by various reports, it is unlikely that Berg was a Bush/for the war supporter as dad described him. As a member of A.N.S.W.E.R., dad has an agenda, so making this statement was likely part of some agenda. Berg was known to have hung around Muslim groups in Oklahoma, and not Jewish groups. But all of a sudden on his way to Iraq, he find his roots and goes to Israel. And unnecessarily gets his passport stamped with an Israeli entry visa.
Which leads me to think that Nick Berg was not afraid of Al Queda finding out he was Jewish, but was very interested in having the FBI/CIA? and Iraqis think he had distanced himself from his Muslim/Al Queda friends.
2. Nick Berg has quite a history of being in the proximity of Al Queda (OU, Kenya, Uganda, Iraq). His experience in Uganda likely had a profound effect on him. It seems potential that Berg was being groomed as what Jayna Davis referred to as a "lily white." Lily whites she defines as "operatives who have no criminal history and no obvious ties to Middle Eastern terrorist organizations, thereby hamstringing law enforcement's ability to profile and track potential terrorists." Thus Berg would want to distance himself although he had intermingled with terrorist. He would not tell friends he was a terrorist supporter, but a Bush supporter.
3. I have been a bit bothered by the fact that within a few days of Nick's incarceration by US or Iraqi authorities in Mosul, his father is screaming bloody murder. But then his son is released . . . and disappears for nearly an entire month before his father thinks to notify the media (and no mention of contacting the authorities). In the meantime, we had heard about many contractors who had gone missing in Iraq. Again, his father felt Nick was more threatened by his being in US/Iraqi custody than possibly in the hands of terrorist.
4. There has been much talk on the net about the orange prison garb, plastic white chair, yellow walls, all looking like the venue of the execution video was taken on Abu Ghraib prison. Possible that the whole thing was staged with that in mind. Possible that Nick was not nervous because he was an active participant in the mock execution, and helped staged the scene after checking out the prison. Too bad he didn't understand his "friends" very well. Although Nick appears to have lost a significant amount of weight (those who had seen him just before he disappeared stated they would not have recognized him), he looked otherwise healthy . . . well, at least until the beheading . . .