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.
"4 people linked to the execution of businessman Berg, body found 10 days ago in baghdad, have been arrested, confirmed tuesday by AFP a highly regarded Iraqi source."
Arrested by whom?
It is more fun to imagine this... but I don't trust AFP.
I hope so.
KIMMITT: "I have no report of four arrests."
REPORTER: "Surely you have some information. C'mon we need a soundbyte."
KIMMITT: What do you want from me? That they are being 'pantied and collared' as we speak?"
REPORTER: "Scoop!"
"also reported on Fox" ping
You were a weird kid
Oh man, you just hit on a whole new series of movies.
Quote of the day nominee for you...
Not kosher! But there's an idea... give them only wine to drink and pork to eat.
And in such a case, results would be superior, because with four related prisoners, you get to compare stories. If they don't agree about every detail of their past month, every minute factoid about Zarkawi, another digit comes off.
I'm talking hardball here. If we're not tough enough to play in the Arab Leagues, we should pack up and go home now, and save further casualties.
"Give 'em the Comfy Chair."
Solid oak, with a hairstyling cap, electrically powered?
It seems like a reasonable guess. It'll be interesting to see if this story just dissapears now.
I wish I could say it stopped when I became an adult.
Well, to be honest, I'm not tossing my Telly out the widow yet either -- not as long as DVD's like "Master and Commander -- the Far Side of the World" are available.
Neal Boortz: "The WMDs have been found my left-wing booger-eating friends."
lol
A Boortz-ism
"Slowly knife their heads off with a rusty pair of scissors on camera."
Heart says yes. Head says absolutely not.
The one thing that we can't do to beat them is to BE them. Granted, the old saying is that if you're a wolf chasing a fox, you don't go dressed like a wolf...you become the fox.
In our case, we are different. I think that's why the world alternatively loves us and hates us: we are different. Why has the method of capital punishment changed over the years, from beheadings to hangings to electrocution to gas chamber, to the current standard, lethal anesthesia?
A hint: it's not because we want our capitally convicted prisoners less dead. It's because we as a people believe in the dignity of life, even in the legal ending of it.
As long as the right people are convicted, and as long as they end up humanely dead, I will be satiated.
Isn't it pathetic? I mean, this prison abuse story is past the silly point. When real news items come in, such as WMD and Berg beheading, media seem like deer in the headlights.
Those stories don't fit their agenda.
"Gee........ Im hoping the US follows the rules as laid out by the Geneva Convention ..Those people who murder innocent people deserve to be treated humanely"
Sarcasm completely understood.
I'm all for treating them humanely...so long as the humane treatment consists of the triple anesthesia cocktail, on a nice bed with seat belts and cameras.
"Off with their heads! No I'm not joking.
Can't we all just get a thong?"
OMG...SAMDLMAO!!!!
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