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[NICK BERG] EXECUTION: FOUR HELD
Sky News ^ | 18 May, 2004 | Sky News

Posted on 05/18/2004 6:36:49 AM PDT by Eurotwit

Edited on 05/18/2004 8:07:29 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Updated: 15:19 UK, Tuesday May 18, 2004

EXECUTION: FOUR HELD
Four people have been arrested over the beheading of American Nicholas Berg, Iraq sources say.

The 26-year-old businessman's decapitated body was found 10 days ago in Baghdad.

His killing was shown around the world on the internet.

The poor quality website video showed Berg dressed in orange overalls kneeling on the floor with his hands tied back.

There were five masked men behind him. One read a statement urging Muslims to take revenge over the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers.

The masked men then pushed the American contractor to the floor and shouted "God is greatest" above his screams.

His head was cut off with a knife and then held aloft.

The website said the execution was performed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a top ally of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

It is not known if he was among the four people arrested.

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To: blam
Baghdad - Four people have been arrested over the beheading of US businessman Nicholas Berg, whose decapitated body was found in Baghdad, senior Iraqi sources said on Tuesday.

Nicholas Berg's headless body was found May 9 in western Baghdad. Three days later, a videotape posted on an al-Qaeda-related website showed him being decapitated by hooded men.

Berg's captors said the killing was to avenge abuses of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison by US forces.

News 24 South Africa

75 posted on 05/18/2004 9:57:28 AM EDT by Dog Gone
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KEYWORDS: captured; iraq; muslims; nickberg
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To: Atlantic Friend

Ah. Thanks, one of those things that gets lost in the translation.


221 posted on 05/18/2004 8:13:09 AM PDT by null and void
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To: Travis McGee

Coalition has not heard anything about 4 arrests.


222 posted on 05/18/2004 8:13:20 AM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)
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To: areafiftyone

Kimmitt has no info on any arrests. Hmmmmm.....


223 posted on 05/18/2004 8:13:32 AM PDT by ride the whirlwind (And we will defend the peace that makes all progress possible. - George W. Bush)
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To: SquirrelKing
KIMMITT just asked about the arrest, says he doesn't have any info.
224 posted on 05/18/2004 8:14:10 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: Eurotwit

Coalition has not heard anything about 4 arrests.


225 posted on 05/18/2004 8:14:14 AM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)
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To: Quilla
Well, Fox just mentioned it briefly. Now, they're covering the daily briefing from Baghdad. On a slow news day they do fluff during the day, sometimes over doing it on some pop culture thingie but on the whole they're still better daytime cable than the others.

Brit is the best, no one else even comes close.

226 posted on 05/18/2004 8:14:30 AM PDT by Darlin' ("I will not forget this wound to my country." President George W Bush, 20 Sept 2001)
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To: No Blue States
"Tony Randall dead at age 84 "

This is the fault of Bush also.

One can't help but wonder if, when the time comes, Reagan will get as much coverage...

227 posted on 05/18/2004 8:14:34 AM PDT by null and void
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To: BulletBobCo

Briget Quinn, I believe.


228 posted on 05/18/2004 8:15:29 AM PDT by Carolinamom
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To: null and void

Hey, don't mention it. To tell you the truth, I wasn't aware of this little trick until a debate here on FR brought up the subject of murdering captives. To tell you the whole truth, I think the reporter should have added "brutal" or "horrendous", or "criminal".


229 posted on 05/18/2004 8:16:53 AM PDT by Atlantic Friend (Cursum Perficio)
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To: Eurotwit
Nick Berg was not Executed...he was murdered. Execution is a state sanctioned public taking of life.

If we are to be consistent, this is the "War on Terror", and there fore this is murder.

Unless and/or until a state(s) is identified as the adversary, instead of some vague notion of a "tactic", then I wish people would quit calling this an execution.
Westerners refuse to put their hands around this...makes me sick.
230 posted on 05/18/2004 8:17:28 AM PDT by antaresequity (This is not the "War on Terror", Islam is the common denominator)
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To: Wolverine
You know, everybody in here gets into a state of high dudgeon over the wacko Bush=Hitler nonsense that takes place at MoveOn and DU, and everyone was offended by that "Bush dragged a black man to death behind his truck" ad from 2000 and the "if you vote Republican, more black churches will burn" ads. Rightly so. That stuff's wrong-headed, non-constructive and outrageously offensive.

So why is any of that any worse or more offensive than Hillary Clinton in the Nick Berg picture?

231 posted on 05/18/2004 8:17:50 AM PDT by Lyford
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To: Chieftain
*blush* Thank you...
232 posted on 05/18/2004 8:17:57 AM PDT by null and void
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To: sharktrager
We agree somewhat.

I don't want torture or the mythical swine solution.
I'm not into revenge, or retaliation.

I assume we disagree too.

I'm not interested in converting or convincing rags.
I don't care about their opinions, feelings, concerns, or ideas.

233 posted on 05/18/2004 8:18:54 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Our grandchildren will have to decide which culture will survive.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
Their heads should roll.

Sick and tasteless...

Wish I had thought of it first!

234 posted on 05/18/2004 8:19:01 AM PDT by Poohbah (Four thousand throats may be cut in a single night by a running man -- Kahless the Unforgettable)
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To: Atlantic Friend
I still remember seeing my first French purchase order. It said "Commande" at the top. I thought that was rather imperious for a few seconds, then realized that an "Order" was pretty much the same...
235 posted on 05/18/2004 8:22:11 AM PDT by null and void
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To: Carolinamom

Apparently, Fox has held back on reporting this for a reason. They're now saying that 4 people have been detained, not arrested.


236 posted on 05/18/2004 8:22:23 AM PDT by Darlin' ("I will not forget this wound to my country." President George W Bush, 20 Sept 2001)
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To: MEG33

Yeah, I just heard that.

I still think there is something to the story. i.e. four people have been arrested.

But, they might only be very remotely connected or their status is not entirely clear yet, or even innocent. Or perhaps, as I alluded in the post you just replied to that they have valuable intelligence and it would be in the coalition's interest to not go public yet.

We have seen before how different branches of the coalition in Iraq seem to communicate and coordinate less than perfectly.

Or AFP just made it up (which I doubt), or the Iraqi official made it up.

Who knows.


237 posted on 05/18/2004 8:22:23 AM PDT by Eurotwit
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To: null and void

That's the funny part with foreign languages, and it's even funnier when we make a little mistakes. I once wrote a paper in high school about professional careers where I said sturgeons' kids had much better chances to become sturgeons themselves. I realized what I had done 10 minutes after I gave my papere to the teacher ! lol. The funniest part of this mix-up was that, in an absurd way, it still was quite true. Sturgeon kids usually become sturgeons after all...


238 posted on 05/18/2004 8:26:18 AM PDT by Atlantic Friend (Cursum Perficio)
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To: MEG33; river rat; Criminal Number 18F; Squantos
If Delta actually did manage to snatch Nick Berg's killers, there will be no press release. They will go to an Iraqi dungeon, and their interrogation will be beyond anything Lyndsie England could conceive of in a nightmare. The CIA will get transcripts of the resulting information on Zarqawi's locations, habits and routines.

We still do need to torture some prisoners, it's a military necessity.

If finding Zarqawi will result in stopping more car bombs and sarin bombs, torturing those four for fast information would be a highly moral act.

To put them in a comfy cell, their information intact in their heads, while car bombs blow up innocents, would be an act of moral cowardice.

Even leftists such as Alan Dershowitz are on the record wholeheartedly agreeing with this.

But having been "burned" by helping the CIA last year, the US Army will have nothting to do with this "moral torture."

So it will have to be an Iraqi and CIA job. At most, Delta will do the snatch and hand over.

239 posted on 05/18/2004 8:28:27 AM PDT by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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To: Eurotwit; Trinity_Tx

Bump to my best guess at 239.


240 posted on 05/18/2004 8:29:24 AM PDT by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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