But I didn't come prepared to stay in Diwaniya and I had a meeting I needed to attend.
There is no doubt about it, his missives were strange.
After going on and on and on about this strange trip to Diwaniya and mentioning Iranian spies several times, he never gets to a point--in fact says flat out they did not think he was one--of why he brought that up.
After all the odd details he tells before this point, he then mentions "a meeting I needed to attend", with zero explanation or needless and seemingly pointless detail.
BTW, I thought he had bought a car when he first arrived (another odd thing, I thought. How does one arrive in a foreign land like war-torn Iraq and buy a car!, but anyway) so why did he take a bus? to Diwaniya?
Miss Marple, you took some interest in Nick Berg's email writing style. You might find this interesting.
Yes, it is strange. I hope someone official is following all of this.
I only saw that reported by the Tribune... and no one else.
Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Ill.: May 13, 2004To stay fit, he lifted weights in his room. Sometimes he drove around town in a beat-up car he bought after arriving in Iraq last winter.