Posted on 05/20/2004 9:15:00 PM PDT by abner
I live fairly close to where Nick Berg used to live. I have a friend that was hired by Nick to do some work for him.
I have some new information from that friend that may or may not shed some light on Nick Berg.
I thought I would post it here for reference.
1. Nick and his father were polar opposites. My friend relates that Nick was very gung ho about the War on Terror. He also said that Nick's father was generally low key about things. In my friend's mind, Nick was very much a supporter of the United States.
2. Nick knew Arabic much better than has been reported in the news. My friend heard him speaking on the phone in Arabic on more than one occasion. He says that as far as he knew, he was not uncomfortable speaking the language.
3. My friend thinks that there is more to Nick's story than meets the eye also. He does not think that he was working for the bad guys.
You have a lot of nerve to be posting something about a beheaded American. What, no news about a new mass murderer having his feelings hurt in Iraq?
Maybe he was working for the good guys.
I think there's more to this story than we'll ever know. FWIW, if he was for the bad guys we would have known that. I suspect he was doing something for the government. That's my tinfoil suggestion for the night.
probably
Yea, yea yea.... Blah, blah, blah...
:-)
That is what my friend thinks.
Thanks. Does your friend know if Nick Berg considered himself an asset of the US or Israel?
From what I've heard, Arabic is pretty tough to learn. Did he say how he learned the language? One surely would not feel comfortable unless he had plenty of opportunity to practice it with other Arabic speakers.
My friend thinks he was really just a regular guy that loved the US. I think he is still somewhat in shock.
Probably in college. Arabic is a fast growing language to learn in collegiate studies.
Ashcroft seemed pretty convinced that Berg was no bad guy.
My friend worked for Nick in a contractor capacity. He never asked him about his Arabic that I know of.
He studied Arabic in Israel.
THANKS MUCH.
Interesting.
I will post more as I find out more.
I don't think that was really Nick Berg in the video. I believe that Nick and Tim (Tim McVeigh bthat is) are sitting in some bar in Tahiti sipping fancy girl drinks that have umbrellas sticking out of them and talking about the good ole' days.
Oops.../sarcasm
Nick Berg info.
You are bad. :-)
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