Posted on 05/27/2004 9:26:51 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
"Truth is stranger than fiction ping. The odds of these occurrences happening is astronomical."
Unfortunately the odds of this appearing in the mainstream media are also astronomical. But miracles can happen!!
I've never seen that published; maybe somebody else has.
Oh, I do remember those!
The sister of Nick Berg, the contractor from the Philadelphia suburbs who was beheaded earlier this month in Iraq, says she's dumbfounded by reports that liberal icon Michael Moore had filmed an interview with her late brother for his new anti-war film.
"I'm very skeptical of this," said Sara Berg, a Virginia attorney whose brother's beheading sparking a global uproar.
But she said there was no way to confirm that Moore had sent a tape of the reported 20-minute interview to their parents' home in West Chester, as the filmmaker suggested in a statement yesterday, because the couple have been away.
Moore's acknowledgment that he had interview footage of Berg that had been shot - but not used - for his highly controversial "Fahrenheit 9/11" documentary may be the strangest twist yet in the increasingly weird saga of Berg and his Iraqi travels, which led to his slaying.
The initial story that touched off the controversy appeared yesterday on the online magazine Salon.com.
It said the interview took place in the United States late last year, before Berg, a radio-tower technician, made the first of two trips to Iraq seeking work there as a private contractor.
So, how would a completely unknown young wannabe contractor like Berg come to the attention of Moore, whose anti-President Bush screed "Dude, Where's My Country?" was the best-selling book in the nation at the time?
Stranger than that: Why would Moore or his crew interview Berg for "Fahrenheit 9/11" for 20 minutes, when Berg's family insists the slain contractor was pro-Bush and supported the American military action in Iraq?
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/8780854.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
I realized that I had not seen the exact date published/posted.
It will be very interesting if he was killed right before Eisner/Disney said no to Moore on the 4th.
Your post of about Moore being busy editing the film on the 5th after he got the Kiss of Death from Eisner is interesting.
Did he pull out the Nick Berg tape at that time?
I've read that it was the Saturday before the beheading video was released, which would have been the 8th. We need to nail that down though.
April 10th; but I don't recall any news stories about him being missing; maybe others do.
But I do wonder if Moore knew; I still want to know why Moore interviewed him but left the footage out of his film.
The timing is looking suspicious to me.
"It said the interview took place in the United States late last year, before Berg, a radio-tower technician, made the first of two trips to Iraq seeking work there as a private contractor.
So, how would a completely unknown young wannabe contractor like Berg come to the attention of Moore, whose anti-President Bush screed "Dude, Where's My Country?" was the best-selling book in the nation at the time?
Stranger than that: Why would Moore or his crew interview Berg for "Fahrenheit 9/11" for 20 minutes, when Berg's family insists the slain contractor was pro-Bush and supported the American military action in Iraq?
Oh, all right! Questions being asked!!
From the article I just linked:
In Iraq, Berg partnered with an ex-Philadelphia Iraqi expatriate who'd been convicted in a Russian-exile crack-vial ring before becoming the highly visible leader of an anti-Saddam Hussein group backed by the Bush administration.
So, how would a completely unknown young wannabe contractor like Berg come to the attention of Moore, whose anti-President Bush screed "Dude, Where's My Country?" was the best-selling book in the nation at the time?
Stranger than that: Why would Moore or his crew interview Berg for "Fahrenheit 9/11" for 20 minutes, when Berg's family insists the slain contractor was pro-Bush and supported the American military action in Iraq?
Finally, a news report that starts asking the right questions.
Thanks. I realized this morning that I didn't know the date, and I can't find it.
Ok, I can't resist...please add me to your ping list. Thanks for all your hard work!
Please add me to your Nick Berg ping list. My strong hunch is that no such interview took place, and the existance of a video is pure fabrication. But, I'm following all the developments with interest.
(snip)
While this video shows a human body having its head chopped off, it does not necessarily portray an act of murder. Berg's headless body was found dumped on a Baghdad roadside on Saturday, May 8.
Three days later, the "live beheading" clip was uploaded from London to the Malaysian website www.al-ansar.biz. The statement in the video is signed with al-Zarqawi's name, dated May 11. After Fox News and CNN had downloaded the video, it disappeared from the site.
Good job! Obviously Bergs family is in the dark.
No...the aunt is in the dark. Michael Berg I am not so sure about.
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