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  Nick Berg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Berg attended four universities: Cornell, Drexel, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Oklahoma.
Berg, unlike most of his family, was a supporter of the 2003 invasion of Iraq and of Bush administration policy.
Berg's body was found decapitated on May 8, 2004 on a Baghdad overpass by a U.S. military patrol.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nick_Berg   (1669 words)

  
 Nick Berg Assassination Video - Al Qaeda - Decapitation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Now Mr Berg is dead, murdered in the most terrible way in a place thousands of miles from his home and light years away from the life that he led in the Philadelphia suburbs.
Mr Berg's father said that his son had told him in a telephone call he had been handed over to the US authorities who held him for 13 days without access to a lawyer and that he was questioned about what he was doing in Iraq.
It is not clear where or when Mr Berg was kidnapped or killed but analysis of the videotape suggested there was a gap of several hours between the time the masked men read their statement and when he was actually beheaded.
www.francesfarmersrevenge.com /stuff/archive/oldnews4/nickberg.htm   (2109 words)

  
 The Endless Victimization of Nick Berg
Nick Berg died a lonely, terrifying, and painful death at the hands of hate-filled fanatics who regard human lives as mere props in a political drama.
Yet many who claim to be outraged by Berg's death are choosing to use him as a prop again, and like his killers, doing so to advance their political agenda.
Berg's father, incredibly, decided to use the media attention focused on him as a result of his son's murder to plug his support for the radical anti-war group ANSWER and to deliver a screed against Bush and the Patriot Act.
www.ethicsscoreboard.com /list/berg.html   (1018 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Video shows beheading of American captive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Berg then was pushed to the floor and screamed as one of the executioners wielded a large knife.
Berg's execution is "a particularly gruesome and graphic way" for terrorists to "get their point across that they will kill any American they can find," says Gregory Gause, director of Middle East studies at the University of Vermont.
Berg was released the next day, and he told his parents that in 13 days of being held by Iraqi and U.S. officials without being allowed to make phone calls or contact a lawyer, he had not been mistreated.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2004-05-11-iraq-beheading_x.htm   (2246 words)

  
 The life and death of Nick Berg | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
Nick Berg's friends and family describe him as a "free spirit" who wanted to help others and play a part in the rebuilding of Iraq.
Berg's father told reporters that his son had attended Cornell University, Drexel University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Oklahoma.
On April 5, the Bergs - frustrated at his incarceration - filed a suit in a federal court in Philadelphia, contending that their son was being held illegally by the US military.
www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,1215255,00.html   (767 words)

  
 Nick Berg
The victim is a 26-year-old idealist from Pennsylvania, Nick Berg.
Berg's headless body was found dumped on a Baghdad roadside on Saturday, May 8.
Berg was last seen walking with his bags the following day, apparently hoping to find his way through the turmoil engulfing the city and make it to the border.
www.wanttoknow.info /nickberg   (1557 words)

  
 The terrible and strange death of Nick Berg
According to Berg’s family, the FBI was reportedly satisfied the password was obtained during a brief encounter on a bus, when Nick Berg had allowed an acquaintance of Moussaoui to use his computer.
Berg was seized on March 24, within one week of returning to Iraq, and held incommunicado without charges in a Mosul prison for unspecified “suspicious activities.” His parents in Philadelphia were visited by the FBI on March 31 and asked why their son was in Iraq.
The issues being raised by Michael Berg point to the fact, that at best, the US authorities created the conditions in which his son could be kidnapped by extremists and killed.
www.wsws.org /articles/2004/may2004/berg-m14.shtml   (1621 words)

  
 CNN.com - Friend: Berg said he was in U.S. custody - May 13, 2004
Infante said Berg told him that Iraqi police were suspicious of the electronics equipment he was carrying for his work on radio communications towers when he was arrested in Mosul.
Berg's father Michael said it was the family's understanding that Nicholas was in U.S. custody.
Berg's brother David told reporters Wednesday that the family received e-mails from Berg after his release in which he made clear he had been held by U.S. forces.
www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/05/13/berg.friends   (805 words)

  
 Who killed Nick Berg?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A fellow hotel guest told Newsday that Berg recounted how Iraqi police had quickly handed him to US authorities in Mosul and that he had been held the entire time in a jail where his guards were US soldiers.
Berg was in Baghdad to win contracts for his family firm, Prometheus Methods Tower Service, a provider of communications facilities.
Berg's father was on that list, as was the family firm, Prometheus.
www.prisonplanet.com /articles/may2004/053004whokilled.htm   (1366 words)

  
 CNN.com - Berg's encounter with 'terrorist' revealed - May 13, 2004
Americans are outraged over Nick Berg's death, but none more so than those who knew him.
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.
Berg said his son cooperated fully with an FBI investigation into the matter.
www.cnn.com /2004/US/Northeast/05/13/berg.encounter   (578 words)

  
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On May 13 CNN reported that Berg "was detained by Iraqi police at a checkpoint in Mosul on March 24, under suspicion of possible involvement in illegal or terrorist activities." Berg aroused sufficient interest that the FBI decided to visit him several times while he was in jail.
On April 5, the Bergs filed suit in federal court in Philadelphia, contending that their son was being held illegally by the US military in Iraq, according to the Associated Press.
Berg had been held in US custody (or in the Abu Ghraib prison?) for two weeks without charge or access to phones or legal help just days before he was last heard from.
www.redrat.net /BUSH_WAR/berg   (3471 words)

  
 The Unanswered Questions of Nick Berg's Murder - by Anthony Gregory
Nick’s father said to the Associated Press: "The Iraqi police do not tell the FBI what to do, the FBI tells the Iraqi police what to do.
Berg had been released, the consular officer did not convey this information to the family because he was released, thankfully….
Journalist Jamie Francis has said that he met Berg at a gym in Baghdad in the short window of time between Berg’s release from custody and his execution, during which time Berg made no mention about having been detained and gave very few details about why he was in Iraq.
www.antiwar.com /orig/gregory.php?articleid=2582   (1194 words)

  
 FOXNews.com - Militants Behead American Hostage in Iraq - U.S. & World
Berg's mother, Suzanne Berg of West Chester, Pa., said her son was in Iraq as an independent businessman to help rebuild communication antennas.
The day Berg last made contact with his family also was the day that seven American contractors working for a subsidiary of Halliburton Corp. and two military men disappeared after their supply convoy was attacked on the outskirts of Baghdad.
Suzanne Berg on Tuesday said she was told her son's body would be transported to Kuwait and then to Dover, Del. She said the family had been trying for weeks to learn where their son was but that federal officials had not been helpful.
www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,119615,00.html   (2397 words)

  
 Nick Berg Memorial Fund   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The indelible spirit of "Berg" will live on through this extraordinary fund dedicated to advancing the contributions Berg initiated.
Nick was always devising ways to teach children science, even when he was in Africa doing research and employing 15 people in a construction effort.
The Nick Berg Scholarship is awarded to a graduating individual from Nick's Alma Mater, Henderson High School.
www.nickberg.org /memorial.html   (517 words)

  
 Instapundit.com -
The Berg video wasn't shown on TV, and -- as Boortz notes -- the big media leaders seem almost desperate to keep the story on Abu Ghraib, even to the point of running already discredited fake porn photos purporting to be from Iraq.
Nick Berg is the new number one search term on the Lycos Search engine over the past 24 hours.
The video showing the beheading of U.S. captive Nick Berg, combined with the multitude of search activity for the War in Iraq and searches for the Iraqi prisoners of war, is generating 12 times more searches than the #2 search term, Paris Hilton.
www.instapundit.com /archives/015532.php   (970 words)

  
 Propaganda Matrix.com - Archive: Berg Execution
Michael Berg lashed out at the U.S. military and Bush administration, saying his son might still be alive had he not been detained by U.S. officials in Iraq without being charged and without access to a lawyer.
Journalist Fintan Dunne provides an expert analysis of the Nick Berg execution as he and Alex unpeal the labyrinthine onion layers of this military intelligence fl-ops program.
One would have to be totally blind to ignore the incredible stench of P2OG Pentagon theater in the case of Nick Berg.
www.propagandamatrix.com /archive_berg.html   (1725 words)

  
 The Murder of Nick Berg
Here is the first lesson of the murder of Nick Berg: Left to their own devices, people can come to justify anything.
Apparently, Nick Berg was not only Jewish by birth but was moving closer to Jewish observance.
Nick Berg may have been alone in a strange land, but he carried his Jewish identity with him.
www.aish.com /jewishissues/jewishsociety/The_Murder_of_Nick_Berg.asp   (1484 words)

  
 CBS News | Powell: Arabs Too Quiet Over Berg | May 17, 2004 11:01:46
President Bush focused on the Berg slaying in his weekly radio address Saturday, insisting Berg's killers must be hunted down as part of a strategy ultimately designed to bring peace to the U.S.-occupied country.
Investigations into the execution of American Nick Berg show his killer was a top al Qaeda operative, and reveal a past link to 9/11 suspect Zaccarias Moussaoui, David Martin reports.
U.S. government officials angered the family of slain American Nick Berg further by claiming he had never been held in U.S. custody in Iraq, a claim the family refutes, Mark Strassmann reports.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/05/11/iraq/main616842.shtml   (1066 words)

  
 Horror show - Salon
And because when you dare to watch his murder you sense how frightened he is, and you admire how calm he is, you feel as if you know Nick Berg intimately, that you've perhaps known him your whole life.
The video of Berg's beheading that so dominated the news on Tuesday is just the latest example of how gruesome digital images are forcing us, and forcing the government, to confront the awful reality of war.
But in the last few weeks, with the publication of leaked pictures of returning caskets, tortured Iraqis, and now Nick Berg's slaughter, all of the controls the government had hoped to place on images from war seem to have completely failed.
dir.salon.com /story/tech/feature/2004/05/12/beheading_video/index.html   (749 words)

  
 BreakForNews.com : Iraqatrix : It's Leather War !
Which indicates that the beheading of Nick Berg was in the plan from the beginning.
Nick wasn't even sure he wanted to be actor in the first place.
In the latest startling development, the chair in which Nick Berg was seen seated prior to his death is exactly the same type of chair in which disgraced U.S. soldier Lynndie England was seen to sit.
www.breakfornews.com /NickBergEnemiesList.htm   (2010 words)

  
 Nick.Berg
And he still doesn't even mention that US officials, according to CNN, say Berg shared his computer - and his password - with one individual, and that password somehow ended up in the possession of Zacarias Moussaoui, a French citizen arrested one month before the September 11 attacks.
But as usual Americans are kept in the dark by their mindlocked mainstream media, surely more warped than the state-controlled Soviet press ever was, and are spoonfed magical tales of evil al-Qaeda deeds from newsrooms that have CIA censors coordinating their vomitous expectorations.
Consider the sequence: Berg's killing took public focus off the pornographic prison scandal, Johnson's death stole the headlines from revelations about Bush's torture memorandum and his possibly treasonous culpability in the outing of a CIA agent, and Kim's demise diverted attention from the Kean commission's stunning findings that the government let 9/11 happen on purpose.
www.gaiaguys.net /Nick.Berg.htm   (3055 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Video 'shows US man beheaded'
The 26-year-old Mr Berg, who owned a communications equipment company, was involved in rebuilding antennas in Iraq before he disappeared on 9 April.
But he went missing prior to that, and was later found to have been arrested at an Iraqi checkpoint in Mosul and held in an Iraqi jail with Iraqi prisoners for 13 days, his father told American TV on Tuesday morning, before the video was released.
Michael Berg said the US authorities were indirectly responsible for his death, by failing to secure his release and thereby causing him to miss his flight home on 30 March.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/3705409.stm   (614 words)

  
 Classical Values :: Nick Berg Beheading Video is here
Nick was not a combatant and even if he was, he was already captured and no longer a danger.
Berg is DEAD for sure, beheaded with brutality, but the whole plot has a bigger conspiracy behind it.
Nick has clearly moved in between these two shots, as illustrated by the change in his voice tone while reciting his details, and the change in the pattern of folds and clothing position under his harms and on his chest.
www.classicalvalues.com /archives/001045.html   (11091 words)

  
 ABC News: Brother of Al-Zarqawi Victim: 'May He Rot in Hell'
Family and friends of Briton Ken Bigley, left, and American Nick Berg, who were beheaded in Iraq in 2004, have mixed reactions to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death.
Nick Berg, a 26-year-old, self-employed Pennsylvania man was also in Iraq on business when he was captured by al-Zarqawi's group in 2004.
"Nick, to know him was to love him," Aaron Spool, a close friend of Berg, told "Good Morning America" in May 2004.
www.abcnews.go.com /GMA/IraqCoverage/story?id=2052786   (467 words)

  
 15 Anomalies Surrounding Death Of Nick Berg
It is unlikely Berg would have continuing wearing a US custodial uniform if he had been released by the military as they claim.
The lack of spurting blood suggests Berg was already dead at the time of the alleged decapitation.
The chair that Berg was seated in during the filming was a standard issue military chair of the exact same kind as seen in a color photo taken at the Abu Ghraib Prison.
www.rense.com /general52/anom.htm   (833 words)

  
 Iraqi police detain 2 in beheading of Nick Berg
Berg, a 26-year-old communications worker from Pennsylvania, had gone to Iraq to drum up business.
On April 5, Berg's family launched a lawsuit against the U.S. military, saying it was illegally holding their son.
Michael Berg has said his son would likely be alive if he'd been set free earlier.
www.cbc.ca /world/story/2004/05/21/nickberg_040521.html   (1251 words)

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