Great background. Thanks
Rush Limbaugh just said that he felt that Daddy Berg’s first interview with the press was strange. He felt Berg’s outward show of sadness and emotion was a little staged, if you will. I am not quoting or speaking for Rush by any means, but this is what I understood him to say. Rush didn’t want to comment more on the subject out of respect for the family.
: "...when Nick Berg, 26, walked into the kettle of paranoia and violence that is Iraq, people suddenly didn't see the same guy his buddies from Henderson High knew. Suddenly, Berg's stubborn wanderlust made him a target of suspicion - a religious Jew riding around Mosul in a taxi with a copy of the Koran.
Some U.S. soldiers even wondered if the patriotic Berg was "a wannabe freedom fighter.""
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"His next venture (after Cornell, according to this account) was Prometheus Methods Tower Service Inc., which builds, maintains and inspects communications towers. He ran the business out of a farm in Lancaster County owned by his foreman, Scott Hollinger. Berg - listening to news or hard rock like Led Zeppelin while shunning TV - typically worked some 60 to 70 hours a week."
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"On March 24, Berg was arrested while riding in a taxi in downtown Mosul. The military source in Iraq, who spoke with the Philadelphia Daily News by telephone, said he was jailed because unescorted Americans aren't usually seen downtown and "they didn't know what to do with him."
He said police were suspicious because of "his demeanor," and authorities also wanted to know why he had the Koran and a book that the source said may have been called "The Jewish Problem" or "The Jewish Solution." (referred to elsewhere in the article as "anti-Semitic.")
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The source said it's unclear exactly why Berg had spent close to two weeks in jail. Although he insisted that Berg had been under Iraqi control, the FBI also questioned Berg three times and visited his parents back in West Chester, Pa.
"He'd made some contact with Arab kids at the University of Oklahoma - that's what the FBI was checking into ... a guy from Oklahoma," the source said. He said the FBI wanted to know if the Oklahoma connection was "why he came over here."
He said the Oklahoma contact was "related to somebody who was involved in 9/11." But he didn't know if that person was jailed al-Qaida supporter Zacarias Moussaoui, who attended the University of Oklahoma close to when Berg was there in 2000.
Hollinger said he knew Berg had attended the University of Oklahoma and made friends with some Arabs or Muslims.
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A slightly different take than the father's explanation of Nick's chance encounter with "terrorists" on a bus.