However, Senor said Iraqi police arrested Berg in Mosul on March 24 because local authorities believed he may have been involved in "suspicious activities."
We've noted this before, but what exactly was the reason the local authorities believed Nick Berg was involved in "suspicious activities"?
Nita, please see that this Urban Hamid was recently of Boulder Colorado, and Maggie has noted that Berg had interacted in Baghdad with Andrew Duke, also of Boulder. Did you ever find out what business Andrew Duke was affiliated with?
Urban Hamid is a Swedish/French national who works as a freelancer for a number of publications worldwide. Currently in Baghdad, he is one of the independent journalists covering the war in Iraq. Hamid is also co-founder of "Great Angular, a network of freelance photographers and journalists specialising in producing features for the written and audio-visual press. He spent twelve years in the United States and now resides in Cairo.
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http://www.wan-press.org/article1018.html
Here is a link to everything I could find on Andrew Duke.
Here is a snip from the Chicago Tribune* that includes Hamid:
Muslim anger toward U.S. intensifies in post-9/11 era: [North Sports Final Edition]*Source of Chicago Tribune article is public library, online. Therefore, I can't provide link.
Tom Hundley, Tribune foreign correspondent.
Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Ill.: Sep 13, 2002. pg. 16
More than a million Muslims live in Brazil, but Rio de Janeiro's famed Copacabana beach feels a world apart from the battlefields of Afghanistan. Riduan and Muhammad, two Syrian brothers who run a bar near the beach, were having a lighthearted conversation until the subject of the U.S. war on terrorism was mentioned.
Then the lines in Riduan's face hardened. He said he did not want to talk about Sept. 11. What really angered him, he said, was the way U.S. officials tossed around the word "terrorism" as if the U.S. government itself had not committed acts of terrorism in the last year.
"I think Americans are the real terrorists in the world," he said. "Americans are the ones that pollute the planet, attack Afghanistan, Iraq, Korea, Vietnam and Japan. They are the most aggressive nation in the world, keeping peace inside their border and doing war outside."
Riduan, 25, did not want his last name published. "I am getting scared," he said, glancing over his shoulder. "If you take a picture of me and print my whole name, Americans will be able to localize me, and I am not sure what could happen to me."
Urban Hamid, a University of Colorado doctoral candidate, has a Swedish mother, an Iraqi father and a U.S. passport. He lives in Cairo but has spent much of the last year traveling throughout the Islamic world. Most people took him to be an American. The experience gave him a firsthand taste of the growing animosity toward the U.S.
"In Cairo, especially with Egypt so closely linked to Israel, I felt resentment I had never felt before. I was exposed to incidents where people openly showed their sentiments. Some people were extremely hostile, saying things like: `What are you doing here? Go home. We all know what you're here for,'" said Hamid, 25.
I don't remember. I'll have to go back and look in my files. It may be tomorrow before I can get to it, though.
Thanks for all the pings. And I did read the article in #85. Thanks. Right now I'm copying things such as that article before they start disappearing.