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I had never read that e-mail in its entirety. Thanks for posting it here. (Note, the source link didn't work). A couple of curious things stick out:

we were announced as Harris's approved tower sub-contractor about two days before the award...

This is in January yet in a NY Times article dated May 26, 2004, they say Berg met with Jan Bosman in Mosul in late March looking for work. The only comment by Bosman was that Berg seemed casual about the security situation. Source It seems Bosman might have commented on Berg's status as an approved sub-contractor or the working relationship with Harris Corporation.

So I finally find the site at around 1900, it's dark and I can barely make out the tower. But I found it and learned what I needed to know.

I wonder what he needed to know from a portable tower he could barely see. Maybe he was just confirming its location.

The air was clean (er), and when I'm climbing these towers I even get to go a few hours without some awkward "Americai?" question. (The answer to which is usually "Sawa" - as you like).

I wonder what Sawa means. According to this, Sawa isn't an Arabic word. There is a US run radio station in the Middle East named Radio Sawa. Berg says "as you like," which seems odd. I wonder who he figured like the response Sawa.

I wonder what he needed to know from a portable tower he could barely see. Maybe he was just confirming its location.

I wondered about that, too. Sure seems like he spent a lot of time and effort just to eyeball it and try to get on back to Baghdad.

Sorry about the source link. Here it is. Note, I think they require subscription.

Re: Harris, all sorts of things sound weird. There was alot of info in this Harris Press Release.

bookmarked...