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
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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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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.
Ah. Thanks, one of those things that gets lost in the translation.
Coalition has not heard anything about 4 arrests.
Kimmitt has no info on any arrests. Hmmmmm.....
Coalition has not heard anything about 4 arrests.
Brit is the best, no one else even comes close.
This is the fault of Bush also.
One can't help but wonder if, when the time comes, Reagan will get as much coverage...
Briget Quinn, I believe.
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".
So why is any of that any worse or more offensive than Hillary Clinton in the Nick Berg picture?
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.
Sick and tasteless...
Wish I had thought of it first!
Apparently, Fox has held back on reporting this for a reason. They're now saying that 4 people have been detained, not arrested.
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.
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...
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.
Bump to my best guess at 239.
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