Mosul police chief denies detaining slain American Nicholas Berg
"the 26-year-old was headed to Turkey. Berg's headless body was found Saturday"
(Sorry, it was bugging me....)
Dangerous trying to be all things to all people because some things will cause some people to want to kill you.
ping a ling while we watch this unfold.
Sorry Ernest, this was for db.
American businessman Andrew Robert Duke said he and Nicholas Berg "had a few beers" on April 9, and Berg told him he "was single, hoping to find a young woman with whom he could have a child."
Duke, 50, also said Berg "spoke about going to Turkey - of going sailing in Turkey - and then home."
This is the first time I have seen this information. How strange.
I wonder why there is such mystery about "who" it was that had him detained. It just doesn't seem like that tough a nut to crack. Either the Iraqis had him, or the U.S. had him... and either might have had good enough reason to do so. Nomatter who it was, his presence there was unusual and worth looking into. They checked him out and released him. Big deal.
Do you have a link to the Berg beheading video?? I haven't seen it and I can't seem to find it. Although I am not sure I want to see it.
It sounds more and more to me as if he was a very confused young man. Communist parents. A prayer shawl AND antisemitic literature in his baggage. Traveling around a dangerous city with no escort and no obvious purpose.
The idea that he was somehow connected with the CIA or the Mossad seems laughable. He sounds more like a lost soul who was confused about who he was, and with parents who were unlikely to be of any help.
He may have thought that his leftist connections, or former leftist connections, would protect him from terrorists. That was a foolish mistake. The terrorists have an alliance of convenience with the leftists, but the relationship is just as uneasy as the Hitler-Stalin pact.
ping