He [Nick] described the conditions for other prisoners and their treatment, depending sometimes on nationality. The others, he wrote, were behind closed cell doors and had no time outdoors. Some prisoners, considered political or suspected war criminals from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran "had been in custody for 40 days without a single interpreter interrogation, just waiting as they still do today, and the Iraqi guards treat these poor fellows — especially the Hindis among them — as real dogs.'
[...I also recall Nick mentioning in an email, referring to Iraqi's at Abu Gore-eb as 'POLITICAL PRISONERS'...] ...
He was seen by friends immediately after leaving the jail. In Baghdad, one friend, Andrew Robert Duke, who stayed at Al Fanar Tower Hotel, where he met Mr. Berg last month, recalled how much he was anticipating returning home when they had their last beer together on April 9.
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The men sat at a round glass-top coffee table on the sixth floor of the hotel. Mr. Berg told Mr. Duke that he was planning to go on a holiday to Turkey and maybe do some sailing. They finished their drinks, and Mr. Berg rose to go.
"I walked him to my door," Mr. Duke said. "Watched him open his door. I said: `Good luck, my friend. Stay in touch.' He said, `I am looking forward to it.' "
Mr. Berg was often seen socializing in the dining room or at the computers next to the lobby. Of muscular build, he often wore a baseball cap, a T-shirt cut off at the shoulders and tattered blue jeans.
[Wouldn't THAT be where terrorist would most likely go to ANONYMOUSLY use the internet?]
"He came and went by himself," said a hotel office manager who gave first name as Ahmed.
The hotel staff cleared out his room, 602, and stowed a set of weights that Mr. Berg had left.
[Doesn't that sound like Nick left suddenly, or unexpectedly?]
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"He never talked about the war or said anything bad about Iraqis," Hugo Infante, a Chilean who works for United Press International, said.
"Just yesterday we realized he was killed," Mr. Infante said. "I saw his name on the Web site. When I saw the name, I said it was not possible it is Nick. Then I saw the face. He looked skinnier and paler."
Mr. Berg's friends and acquaintances at the hotel said he was working on communications towers for some Baghdad hotels. Mr. Infante said he last saw Mr. Berg on April 10, writing an e-mail message to his family. "I saw him there," he said, gesturing to the Internet cafe. "I said, `Hello, how are you?'
"And he said, `I want to go home.' "
[An April 10th sighting by Hugo Infante? Thats new info to me, And THAT makes HUGO the LAST associate to see him!]
[Does anyone know of the final email the Bergs received?]
Yet another inconsistency:
In the message dated April 6, addressed to his parents, brother and sister, Mr. Berg described the 13 days that he spent in the Shirdta Iraqiyah station near Mosul, an Iraqi detention center where, he said, the United States Military Police supervised and trained the Iraqi officers.He arrived on March 14 and was arrested on March 24.
The last sentence of your brilliant deductions leaped out at me. "An April 10 sighting by Hugo Infante...and that makes HIM the last associate to see him!" ..you wrote.
Hugo Infante gets a mention in #1216. I find the fact that Hugo was a photographer most fascinating - what a trio! Mr Aziz and his criminal background and Iraqi connections, Berg's idealogical 'bent' and a professional photographer all meet in Iraq...Presto! Prison 'abuse' photographs/video follow.
Hugo was in the business of SELLING photographs.
Aziz I think has been proven to sell ANYTHING - even drugs.
Berg, by referring to the prisoners as POLITICAL, confirms his radical stance.
"He (Nick) described the conditions for other prisoners and their treatment, depending sometimes on nationality. The others, he wrote, were behind closed cell doors and had no time outdoors. Some prisoners, considered political or suspected was criminals from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran 'had been in custody for 40 days without a single interpreter interrogation, just waiting as they still do today, and the Iraqi guards treat these poor fellows - especially the Hindis among them - as real dogs."
He is talking about jihadi's who have come from all over the muslim world with the express purpose of killing American soldiers. (Poor fellows?)
We are looking for a connection between Berg and Moore. Could its name be Hugo Infante?