I'm still catching up on the thread in the Southern Hemisphere.(Time difference.)Incredible amount of work being done here. I also kept asking myself WHY was Berg climbing towers? Not just in Iraq, but in the US? He and a fellow named Hollinger (?) Who was paying them and for what...it sounded more like a pair of idiots into a new form of 'extreme sport' until I read #991 from livius, then it began to make a little more sense. Prometheus!
I read previously (can't find the original story) that as a young boy, Berg was an electronics freak. He made a radio I seem to recall, from the remains of a toaster! This may not be significant at the outset, but combined with the fact that he never completed his education Berg is beginning to look like a loose canon to me. Possibly brilliant but not affiliated to any profession/trade with discipline or oversight. He sounds more like a potential saboteur to me. ( All in 'good cause'?)
And what was the story about 'silver wires' found on the towers in Iraq?
Who do the towers in the US belong to? Are they government property or privately owned? If they were mine, I would be sending someone out to check them all to make sure they have not been tampered with...the schematics for 60 towers on a laptop, be they in the US or in Iraq sounds like a fairly big-time operation to me.
I'm new here...enlighten me please, what is a ping list? How does it work? I think I would love to be on it if there is room for one more. I found the Berg story smelly from day one. Keep up the good work.
As was mentioned long ago, jokingly, on another thread:
Where was Nick Berg in August of 2003 when the lights went out?
Run while you still can. Once you get on a good ping list, you'll turn into a FReepaholic for sure. ;-)
This may help: FR search for "ping list"
A ping list is when someone keeps a list of all the posters who are interested in a certain topic and "pings" them whenever there is a new article about that topic.
A "ping" would come to you the same way a reply to a post you make would, on your MY COMMENTS page.
It's like an alert for you to read something.
Did you ever find anything on this? If you'll freepmail me will anything you remember about it, I'll take a stab at it. ANY and ALL clues help with finding appropriate keywords.