Posted on 05/14/2004 7:12:53 AM PDT by kattracks
Nick Berg had a bit of a strange run the last few years - starting with the "coincidental" usage of his e-mail account by the alleged 20th 9-11 hijacker - ending with his beheading at the hands of terrorists in Iraq.He is described by various news agencies as a techno-genius, a dreamer, a wanderer, a funnyman and the ultimate Curious George.
Today, Philly.com revealed another item about Berg: "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.'"
So what was he doing in Iraq? A friend told Fox News he thought Berg was "sailing in Turkey." (Sure ... if we were to go sailing, that's the place we'd choose as well.)
When Berg was arrested in Mosul, he had two items with him that made authorities nervous: A copy of the Koran, and another book reportedly entitled either "The Jewish Problem" or "The Jewish Solution." Why a Jew would be carrying these items is unclear, but Berg supporters say it was like him to be curious about such things.
Berg also refused to leave Iraq when asked to do so by the State Department.
He not only apparently felt the need to help rebuild Iraq, but he also wanted to go into business doing so. He told jailors that he was losing thousands of dollars while being detained.
He had worked in Africa (Uganda), and had some kind of a relative living in Mosul, so that's where he went in Iraq. He was only arrested because he was an unaccompanied American in a place where that was out of place.
A military source in Iraq told the Philadelphia Daily News, "He was jailed because unescorted Americans aren't usually seen downtown and 'they didn't know what to do with him.'
"Police were suspicious because of 'his demeanor'" and the two books he had.
Berg was, according to the paper, "under Iraqi control... the FBI also questioned Berg three times and visited his parents back in West Chester."
Authorities tried to tell Berg to go home, and offered to pay for everything, but he told them, "You don't understand these people like I do. You're here for a reason - and so am I."
On April 6th, Berg was released from jail, and three days later he disappeared.
I was thinking maybe he had gone from a Useful Idiot to a Useless Idiot so they killed him - which gave him a new use.
I am reading THE THIRD TERRORIST by Jayna Davis about the OKC bombing and the US gov. cover up of the middle eastern ties to it..... when will they EVER tell us the whole truth? Who is John Doe #2? Jose Padilla? he is still being held without charges.....
The bad thing is that his father might hve put him up to it. If that is true, his father is the skum I think he is.
"No, the real tragedy here is that barbaric subhumans murdered a man in cold blood."
If his parents had raised him well and developed God given common sense Nick wouldn't have there in the first place and these freaks would not have had access to this illogical utopian.
With a POS old man like Michael (ANSWER), I wonder what the son was up to.
She was a nurse and said there was a small dark area on the floor.
I said the quality was so bad it could have been a hoax.
Of course my first reaction was horror and anger; only later did it occur there was at least one break/cut in the video.
Leading to the next question, how much was as it was meant to appear.
With all the garbage coming from daddy Michael ANSWER, it begins to smell like a fish market.
We are outraged yes, but I am rather surprised at the lack of lead time this got with the media. Are the terrorists so sure that we are now weakened by the constant attacks on Bush and the war that they have no fear of us?
The butchering of the contractors didn't bring shock and awe back to them either. I am at a loss to figure out what the heck this is all about, but it is strange. Who was this poor guy, Nick Berg?
That he read his statement the first day and no harm came to him may very well have given Nicholas a false sense of security or at least an unawareness of what was to come. Notice that the animal hid his weapon from Nicholas until the moment.
We must not allow the media to get away with this. They have become co-conspirators with the terrorists.
Univ of Okla is in Norman, it is 15 min. drive away.
We grew up in OK.
Some guys don't have a lot of natural upper-lip hair, 'specially when young. I remember in high school and college, a few of my friends got thick beards fairly young but only very wispy upper lip hair until later -- the reverse of the more usual pattern where the moustache grows in first.
I have a hard time believing that a Muslim would shave the moustache but not the beard -- they all seem to prefer full facial hair, or moustache only. Shaving the upper lip but letting the beard grow is an Amish custom.
Yes he did look Amish, or Swedish, or like someone who lived around Abe Lincoln's time.
LOL!
Why am I laughing? the poor guy got killed. But -- somehow that comment got to me. Ah well.. gotta lighten up sometime or these tragedies will drive us mad.
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