Paging Mr. Berg - Your fifteen minutes of fame are up...
Okay, if we are going to launch wild-eyed conspiracy theories, let me launch one of my own:
Michael Berg is so anti-Iraq war that he actively worked with insurgent terrorists to set his son up. Then when his son was seized and beheaded, he had more limelight to express his anti-American Ûber-Liberal views.
Disclaimer: This is a wild-eyed conspiracy theory intended to demonstrate absurdity by being absurd.