>>You forgot the beginning of the timeline: Nicholas Berg was in Uganda and Ghana in 1998.
>>Did anything happen in those countries during that time?
>>I believe the Embassy bombings occurred in that time period.
>>My point is that this guy was in UGANDA and GHANA and then right after, this Jewish kid from the East Coast ends up at the University of Oklahoma, and stays there even though he doesn't attend school. DURING THAT TIME HE HOOKS UP WITH MOUSSAOUI. It's just too bizarre to be coincidental.
>>Yes, 1998.
>>I read previously that the Kenya embassy bombing was in 1998 and
>>that the Kenyan city in which it occurred is right next door to one of those countries. But I didn't follow up that information at the time to check it out.
>>Did anyone else?
DING DING DING DING DING! The Kenya bombing was August 7, 1998
He [Nick Berg] spent the Spring 1998 semester in Uganda through Cornell’s Study Abroad Program.
The New York Times reported that Berg sent a lengthy e-mail to his family after he was detained [in Mosul in March 2003]. Among the questions asked, he wrote, were: "Why was I in Iraq? Did I ever make a pipe bomb? "
My conclusion so far is that prior Dec 2003, Nick Berg's travels CERTAINLY did mimic major movements of Al Qaeda. Now if that means he was trying to JOIN them, or INFILTRATE them, I'm still not sure.
As for his IRAQ travel, the theory that he went there working for M.Moore, could still be combined with EITHER of the first two scenarios.
That is, he could have been one with Al Qaeda, PLUS working for M.Moore,
OR, he could have been an undercover agent and letting M.Moore 'THINK' he was loyal to him,
OR, he could have just been working for M.Moore.
(I don't buy the most innocent explanation that he was none of the above)
I have looked over Nick Berg's 'inventions' and although I can't find he ever made a 'shocking-device' he did make a hand-held 'truth detector' and in separate projects messed around with doorbells, coils, capacitors and such, which fascinates most 1st-year EE students and almost always leads them to making a "shocking-device". From there, an electronic detonator is nearly the same thing.
An adventurous 'electronics expert' could have been very helpful to Al Qaeda.