I am sure that, if this were true, Moore would be the first to disclose the facts. Yep.
Plausible, I must admit. ....which is a helluva lot more than I can say about the other conspiracy theories I've read on the subject.
There is a live thread on FR that started last night that dealt/deals with Moore interviewing Nick Berg. It has over 1,000 replies with a lot of new data, like Berg was interviewed last December before he went to Iraq.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1143602/posts
Moore interviewed Berg for "Fahrenheit"
Salon.com ^ | May 27, 2004 | Rebecca Traister
Posted on 05/27/2004 9:26:51 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
May 27, 2004 | Filmmaker Michael Moore filmed an interview with American Nicholas Berg in the course of producing his documentary film "Fahrenheit 9/11" before Berg left for Iraq, where he was taken hostage and killed, Moore confirmed to Salon in a statement Thursday. The 20 minutes of footage does not appear in the final version of "Fahrenheit 911," according to the statement.
Word of the footage reached Salon through a source unaffiliated with Moore or his film "Fahrenheit 9/11," which is reported to feature stark images of U.S. civilians and soldiers grappling with conditions in war-torn Iraq, as well as examining the relationship between President George W. Bush and the bin Laden family. It received the Palme d'Or, the Cannes Film Festival's highest honor, on Saturday.
In a statement widely circulated by Moore's people after an initial request for comment by Salon, Moore said, "We have an interview with Nick Berg. It was approximately 20 minutes long. We are not releasing it to the media. It is not in the film. We are dealing privately with the family." Moore's camp declined to comment further on any aspect of the interview. Because the footage is not in the film, a spokeswoman for Miramax Films, the production company behind "Fahrenheit 9/11," said the company had no comment.
It was not clear from Moore's statement whether footage from the interview with Berg had ever been included in early cuts of "Fahrenheit 9/11." Reports about a film industry controversy surrounding distribution of the film first hit the news on May 5, a week before Berg's death. The film officially screened for the public and the press for the first time during the Cannes festival on May 17.
The news that Moore spoke to Berg while he was still in the United States only adds to the mystery surrounding the young man's presence in Iraq and tragic death. The interview was shot before the 26-year-old Berg left for Iraq late last year as a private contractor in the hopes of helping to rebuild the ravaged country. Though it was unclear what Berg spoke about in his interview with Moore, or how the two men met, unrelated reports following his death indicate that he headed for the Middle East with plans to work to improve the country's technological infrastructure and communication abilities. He ran his own company, Prometheus Methods Tower Service, in a suburb of Philadelphia.
Berg did not find employment in Iraq, and when he attempted to return to the United States he was detained by Iraqi police and questioned by American forces. He was released after his family complained. But shortly after, he is believed to have been kidnapped by Islamic terrorists. Video of his beheading was released on an Islamist Web site on May 11. Salon was unable to reach the Berg family for comment before publication.
Moore's film chronicles the United States' military, political and business involvement in the Middle East in the years before and after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. His previous politically charged films, including "Roger & Me" and "Bowling for Columbine," have created controversy and won him praise (including an Oscar, for "Columbine"). "Fahrenheit 9/11" has already sparked a media storm; in early May, Miramax's parent company, Disney, announced that it would not allow Miramax to distribute the film, which is highly critical of Bush and his administration.
Miramax has yet to make a deal with a distributor, though the film's warm reception at Cannes and the publicity surrounding the film have made it a hot property that is generating a lot of interest in Hollywood. "Bowling for Columbine" grossed $21 million, making it the highest-grossing non-IMAX documentary of all time.
A source close to "Fahrenheit 9/11" said that a new distributor will be announced shortly, and that the film is expected to be released in theaters during the first week of July, as originally planned.
Berg was at Abu Graib Prison on a tower.....hmmmmmm PLUS Moussoui has Berg's password...hmmmmm.
Makes sense...the "insurgents" caught him poking around with his camera and thought no one would be that stupid so he must be a spy, so they killed him. The government should immediately get that film from the pig, Moore, and arrest him if he was engaged in subversive activity that led to the weirdo Berg's murder.
Did anyone actually recover Berg's body? I've been pretty much out of the news loop.
Interesting theory...definitely a lot of unanswered questions relative to Berg.
Note from Moore:
"The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not "insurgents" or "terrorists" or "The Enemy." They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win."
He deserves to be shunned by America. He is a shameful opportunist.
I can't help but thinking that moore would not be above getting berg decapitated so that he could use his footage. I really must start making heavier tin foil hats.
I make part of my living debunking conspiracy theories. Nevertheless, we must acknowledge that real conspiracies exist, and this hypothesis has an excellent chance of being one of them. It carries no cosmic implications (controlled media, etc.), it involves only a few people (no Moon landing hoax, which would have required a million co-conspirators at the very least), and it passes the test of Occam's Razor, the common-sense principle that the simplest explanation that accounts for the facts is probably the right one.
In this case, we are working from a truly extrordinary set of facts, Moore's admitted relationship with Berg being the most remarkable.
The bottom-line: A young adventurer whom Moore has acknowledged knowing disappeared in Iraq at almost the same time Moore boasted of an imminent revelation from "secret agents" operating there. This young adventurer subsequently turned up dead and Moore has had no more to say about his secret agents.
Moore interviewed Berg for "Fahrenheit"
Posted by savedbygrace to BurbankKarl On News/Activism 05/28/2004 2:13:02 PM CDT #717 of 1,455
Berg was acting as Moore's agent, trying to setup interviews with AQ bad guys. (Makes as much sense as anything else.)
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Ping list perhaps?
I'm guessing that Moore put Berg up to it. Berg probably thought he was going to get some good info on those fun-loving guys from al Qaeda for Moore's movie.