U.S. Officials Failed to Protect Slain Civilian (Nick Berg), Family Says

New York Times ^ | May 13, 04 | James Risen

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Recalling his brother's independent personality, David Berg said such a refusal would not surprise his family

Can you imagine the outrage if the US military handcuffed him and threw him on a plane home?!?

The brother's statement proves what I posted elsewhere - I see a guy who ignored all alerts and advice anyone gave him. Dad is against Bush so Nick sets up electronics for the RNC in 2000. Dad is against war so sonny boy decides to go on an adventure into a war zone. Before he left, the State Dept. or some official told him it was dangerous and not to go but he takes off anyway and to prove to everyone he goes ALONE. He takes a Jewish "fringed religious cloth" with him to a country that hates Jews and Dad wonders that he may or may not have been wearing it out in public. He doesn't abide with the safe zone areas but hangs out at night with the locals which concerned his friends back at the hotel in Baghdad. His emails show he had a grand time jaunting out to the Syrian border and taking in the sights around a country in turmoil. The Iraqi police requests he go home and tells friends what a lark his detainment was. The FBI requests he go home. The US military requests he go home and offers to buy him a plane ticket. He refuses all. Either this whole incident is a sham or Nick had a serious problem with authority and was sorely lacking in basic common sense. Not to excuse what the monsters did to him, but he was playing a dangerous game and lost.