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PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Michael Berg, whose son Nick was beheaded in Iraq in 2004, said on Thursday he felt no sense of relief at the killing of the al Qaeda in Iraq leader blamed for his son's death. Asked what would give him satisfaction, Berg, an anti-war activist and candidate for U.S. Congress, said: "The end of the war and getting rid of George Bush." The United States said its aircraft killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the insurgent leader who masterminded the death of hundreds in suicide bombings and was blamed for the videotaped beheading of Nick Berg, a U.S. contractor,...

American internet link to Ken Bigley torture videosby SHARON CHURCHER, Mail on Sunday 11:44am 17th October 2004Terror: Hostage Ken Bigley blindfolded in Iraq The brutal videos of British hostage Ken Bigley begging for his life were distributed on the internet by a radical Islamic website hosted by an American firm with ties to the Bush administration. The Mail on Sunday began investigating the site, hostinganime, after it showed images of Mr Bigley being held in a cage, shortly before he was decapitated by the Al Qaeda cell known as Tahid wal Jihad. The site posted links to footage in...

A List Foreigners Hostage in Iraq By The Associated Press Insurgents in Iraq (news - web sites) have kidnapped dozens of people in their campaign to drive out coalition forces and hamper reconstruction: HELD HOSTAGE _Twelve Nepalese workers. Kidnapped August 23, four days after crossing border while working for Jordan-based construction company. Iraqi militant group claimed responsibility. _Aytullah Gezmen, of Turkey. Kidnapped July 27 or 28. Worked for Bilintur, Turkish company providing laundry service for Jordanian firm in Iraq. _Mustafa Koksal and Durmus Kumdereli, Turkish truck drivers. Kidnapped Aug. 14 outside Mosul after delivering water to U.S. base in Baghdad....

Filmmaker Moore Says He Has Berg Footage Associated Press NEW YORK - Filmmaker Michael Moore, whose incendiary new documentary lambastes President Bush's handling of the war, said Thursday that he has footage unused in the film of Nicholas Berg, the American civilian later beheaded in Iraq. The footage, of an interview with Berg, "is approximately 20 minutes long. We are not releasing it to the media," Moore said in a statement. "It is not in the film. We are dealing privately with the family." Neither Moore nor his representatives would describe the nature or contents of the interview with Berg,...

When I eulogized my son, Nick, I said that he was my teacher and my hero. He was the kindest, gentlest man I know — no, the kindest, gentlest human being I know or have ever known. Did you know that he quit the Boy Scouts of America because they wanted to teach him to fire a handgun? Nick, too, poured into me the strength I needed and still need to tell the world about him. People ask me why I focus on putting the blame for my son's tragic and atrocious end on the Bush administration. They ask: "Don't...

SAN DIEGO -- University of California, San Diego administrators made a last-minute decision today to cancel campus showings of the videotaped beheading of American civilian Nicholas Berg in Iraq. Ariel Mor, a 20-year-old UCSD political science sophomore, planned the event as "pro-American," saying he hoped it would increase support for U.S. troops deployed in the Middle East nation, according to news reports. Mor intended to show the eight-minute video repeatedly between noon and 3:30 p.m. on two 25-inch television sets on the La Jolla campus's central Library Walk. University officials decided the video did not violate student policy, after considering...

Beheading Video Was Uploaded From London, Not IraqAfter several hours of research, JackBlood.com has learned the web addresses for the ‘Islamic Websites’ that posted the Nick Berg decapitation video. The website addresses are www.al-asnar.net and www.al-asnar.biz . Both websites have apparently been disabled by 'authorities.' The location of the web server is reportedly in Malaysia. However, the addresses of the publishers for these sites are located in London, England and Nurnberg, Denmark. The addresses began to disappear from the internet listings as we reported this development on The Power Hour Radio Show. Apparently, ‘Big Brother’ had been listening to the...

VILLA PARK, Calif. - At least three teachers have been placed on paid leave following complaints they showed students the videotaped beheading of American Nicholas Berg in Iraq (news - web sites). Villa Park High School English teacher Stephen Arcudi allowed students to use his classroom computer to see video footage of Berg being executed, school officials said. "Because of our concern over his judgment and the way he handled the situation, we have put him on leave while we continue to investigate," said Orange Unified School District Assistant Superintendent Cheryl Cohen. Two other teachers were put on leave by...

<p>May 14, 2004 -- In a bizarre twist, the anti-American TV station al-Jazeera is questioning the "authenticity" of the horrific video of American Nick Berg's beheading - suggesting it's a fake to divert attention from the Iraqi prison abuse scandal.</p>

I just forced myself to watch it again and again and have altered what I understand about the video. There a total of FOUR places where the time skips around. The FIRST scene time stamp begins at 13:26:24 and runs until 13:26:27. It then skips to the SECOND scene 2:18:33 and runs to 2:18:43. The first two are statements by Berg. It then skips to the THIRD Scene at 2:40:33 with the Islamofascist making statements until 2:44:12 when they drag him to the floor by the hair. Berg appears calm and unconcerned but alert. Then the time stamp suddenly skips...

Statement from John Kerry on the Murder of Nicholas Berg To: National Desk, Politics Reporter Contact: Brooke Anderson of John Kerry for President, 202-712-3000, Web: http://www.johnkerry.com JACKSONVILLE, Fla., May 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- John Kerry issued the following statement on the murder of Nicholas Berg: "Like all Americans, I'm horrified and deeply saddened by the senseless murder of Nicholas Berg. My thoughts and prayers are with his family and with the families of all our troops and civilians working under such dangerous conditions to rebuild and bring peace to Iraq. We are grateful for the work you do and...

MURDER OF NICK BERG: A RE-ENACTMENT OF THE MURDER OF JEW KA'B bin AL-ASRAF ON ORDERS OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD FOR SPEAKING ILL OF MUHAMMAD ("Religion of Peace") Hadith Sahih Bukhari http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/052.sbt.html#004.052.269 Volume 4, Book 52, Number 269: Narrated Jabir bin 'Abdullah: The Prophet said, "War is deceit." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 4, Book 52, Number 270: Narrated Jabir bin 'Abdullah: The Prophet said, "Who is ready to kill Ka'b bin Al-Ashraf who has really hurt Allah and His Apostle?" Muhammad bin Maslama said, "O Allah's Apostle! Do you like me to kill him?" He replied in the affirmative. So, Muhammad bin Maslama...

A few seconds after Nick Berg is pushed over and the knife put to his neck the clock skips from 2:44:12 to 2:45:47 during the throat cutting. 1:35 of clumsy hacking and screaming were edited out. Islam requires a sharp knife and quick kill but this was not. The sound runs 5 to 7 seconds ahead of the video. That is why the yelling starts before anyone moves. The reader audibly clears his throat at 2:42:32 but covers his mouth at 2:42:38.

Begin transcript Rush: I'm going to give this a try. It has been suggested. I mentioned an hour ago when the program started that I'd seen the execution of Nick Berg video, and I was being urged by people to describe it, and the reason I was being urged to describe it was because it's unspeakable. And what is done to us by our enemies we cannot see, we will not look at. We cannot discuss it because it's unspeakable, and yet a moral equivalence is attached to what is done to Americans and what some American prison guards did...

The Sacred Muslim Practice of BeheadingBy Andrew G. BostomFrontPageMagazine.com | May 13, 2004 Reactions to the grotesque jihadist decapitation of yet another "infidel Jew," Mr. Berg, make clear that our intelligentsia are either dangerously uninformed, or simply unwilling to come to terms with this ugly reality: such murders are consistent with sacred jihad practices, as well as Islamic attitudes towards all non-Muslim infidels, in particular, Jews, which date back to the 7th century, and the Prophet Muhammad's own example. According to Muhammad’s sacralized biography by Ibn Ishaq, Muhammad himself sanctioned the massacre of the Qurayza, a vanquished Jewish tribe. He appointed...

http://www.620ktar.com/simons/beheading.aspx It should also be known.. Nick Berg was Jewish, tho I believe he was killed Primarily because he was Just an American. RIP

frame grab taken from web site video footage May 11, 2004, shows a man, who identified himself as Nick Berg of Philadelphia (C) seated in front of his five masked captors moments before he was executed. Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq beheaded an American civilian and vowed more killings in revenge for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners, an Islamist Web site said on Tuesday. After one of the masked men read out a statement, they pushed Berg to the floor and shouted 'God is greatest' above his screams as one of them sawed his head off with a large knife...

SAN DIEGO -- Two teachers are suspected of showing students video of American Nick Berg being decapitated, 10News reported. A social studies teacher from Grossmont High School in El Cajon allegedly showed students Wednesday a portion of the video, pictures and audio of the beheading, Grossmont Unified School District Superintendent Terry Ryan told 10News. Ryan said the teacher, Michael Smith, (pictured, far right), has been removed from the classroom pending a full investigation. Smith, an El Cajon native, graduated from Grossmont High School in 1983. Many of his students wore shirts Friday that read "Free Mr. Smith." Others, who also...

PORTLAND - The radio station KNRK at 94.7 FM is issuing an apology to its listeners after talk show hosts Marconi, Tiny and sidekick Nickie J. laughed at and ridiculed the beheading of American Nick Berg. The three were fired Thursday afternoon, after airing the audio recording of Berg's murder repeatedly on Wednesday and laughing at the incident. "Disgusting… I'm speechless," said one woman. KNRK and Entercom, the company that owns the station, apparently agreed, playing an apology over the airwaves for their listeners: The actions of the KNRK News Morning Show were insensitive, inappropriate and repulsive. On behalf of...

I have yet to hear a logical explanation for the time lapse of over 13 hours from the time the executioner pulls out his knife to cut his head off, to the next scene where Nick Berg is on the ground struggling with his killers. The time goes from 2:44 to 13:45. One will also notice that the pictures then become very blurred and out of focus. At the beginning of the video, Berg is sitting alone in his chair at 13:26, then goes back to 2:18, then back to 2:40. Throughout Berg's narration, he seems relatively calm - as...