[bonfire]

You are onto something. As far as I recall, there was never really any plausible explanation for Berg being picked up. With his history (and dad's) here in the U.S., our gov. was checking up on his activities in Iraq.

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I'm guessing he was trying to make underground contacts. Maybe he was "innocently" trying to sell radio equipment to the political opposition. That's what Prometheus Radio does. At any rate, whether he was a spy or a fool, he was dangerous to the insurgents. He might have been naive enough not to know.