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His going to OU was a natural move because of his area of interest. (according to those in the business, not only did the school have a strong program for him, but they have a higher-than usual # of those towers in that part of Oklahoma, and they need a lot of repair due to the high winds.)

There's no evidence of his ever hooking up with Moussaoui, just that he was seen in the company of Arab students, (not known to be contacts of terrorists) and that his e-mail account info was found in the possession of a man the FBI investigated after 9/11 because he was believed to be an acquaintance of Moussaoui.

There were numerous other students whose e-mail account info was stolen at the same time, so the FBI concluded that he was just one of them.

There is evidence that Berg was still in Norman as late as the spring of 2000, but no evidence that Moussaoui was there until 2001. That doesn't mean they could never have met somewhere, somehow.

I had two kids at OU back then and still have two there. That story about email accounts being stolen doesn't wash. My daughter was on the newspaper at the time and I would think that it would have been front page if the email accounts were stolen not to mention front page of the birdcage paper here in Norman.

My son has not been able to find anyone that had their email account stolen or even heard about it. None of the parents I know heard about it either.

They did bring the Internet connection inhouse and everyone had to change their email account but that would have meant that Berg's email account was no longer good and couldn't have been used.

I live in Norman and we don't have a large number of towers here that I see except the polls with all the tornado warning sirens and they are not towers. No more towers here then anywhere else that I have traveled.

None of the professors can remember this hotshot kid either -- not one. None of the people in class can either, but the Islamic Society knew him and the people at Lloyd Noble. What was he doing working at Lloyd Noble for events if he was so good with electronics? Why not get a job in the Engineering Department or at least apply?

If he came here to climb towers, I have yet to hear one of the companies that service them mention he worked for them. In fact, most of the cell phone towers were not even built when he was here now that I think about it. All I remember seeing were the radio towers prior to the cell phones becoming really popular.

There's no evidence of his ever hooking up with Moussaoui, just that he was seen in the company of Arab students, (not known to be contacts of terrorists) and that his e-mail account info was found in the possession of a man the FBI investigated after 9/11 because he was believed to be an acquaintance of Moussaoui.

There were numerous other students whose e-mail account info was stolen at the same time, so the FBI concluded that he was just one of them.

How do your assertions (links to support them, please...but I don't think you have any) comport with this report:

Berg's encounter with 'terrorist' revealed

Excerpt:

When Nicholas Berg took an Oklahoma bus to a remote college campus a few years ago, the American recently beheaded by terrorists allowed a man with terrorist connections to use his laptop computer, according to his father.

Michael Berg said the FBI investigated the matter more than a year ago. He stressed that his son was in no way connected to the terrorists who captured and killed him.

Government sources told CNN that the encounter involved an acquaintance of Zacarias Moussaoui -- the only person publicly charged in the United States in connection with the September 11, 2001, terror attacks.

According to Berg, his son was taking a course a few years ago at a remote campus of the University of Oklahoma near an airport. He described how on one particular day, his son met "some terrorist people -- who no one knew were terrorists at the time."

At one point during the bus ride, Berg said, the man sitting next to his son asked if he could use Nick's laptop computer.

"It turned out this guy was a terrorist and that he, you know, used my son's e-mail, amongst many other people's e-mail who he did the same thing to," Berg said.

Government sources said Berg gave the man his password, which was later used by Moussaoui, the sources said.

The sources said the man who used Berg's e-mail knew Moussaoui, now awaiting trial on federal charges that could bring a death sentence. But the sources would not disclose details of how the men were connected.

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I like to stick to facts, too. It says Berg gave this unknown-at-the-time terrorist (per the father) his *password*. I wouldn't call that "stolen". Michael Berg claims this happened to several students, but that part is not corroborated by the officials who seem to confirm other aspects of the story. I would not say we know what, if anything, the FBI "concluded".