Posted on 05/13/2004 4:50:22 PM PDT by KQQL
but other articles showed him getting closer to his Jewish roots recently. Flipping to the darkside doesn't make sense.
I don't believe he was wandering around unescorted. I notice this piece left out the fact that he was offered a phone call home. He wanted to wait til he was in kuwait. Why?
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Another interesting nugget. Who is the in-law?
Maybe he was changing his mind about them. Maybe he was a Muslim who wished to return to the Jewish faith after seeing more of Muslims first hand --- and forgot that you can never change your mind.
Michael Berg, said that although his son wanted to leave Iraq, he refused the flight offer because he thought the travel to the airport would be too dangerous
So tell me again how this is President Bush's fault? Because I am just not getting it.
Sounds like the Iraqi police are lying about never detaining Berg. No doubt the existence of the Israeli stamps in his passport were communicated to al-Zarqawi's followers by someone in the Iraqi police force. Why the FBI was questioning him is anybody's guess.
money.......it;s gas...........
It does strange things to some people.
This in-law is an Iraqi married to his paternal aunt.
B.S.
Give the guy the benefit of the doubt.
The conspiracies are popping up to stifle our anger.
He was essentially tortured to death, for God's sake.
I think it was his Iraqi-Arab uncle married to his dad's sister -- a Jewish woman. Something doesn't make sense about this family.
"he refused the flight offer because he thought the travel to the airport would be too dangerous."
OK, now daddy is an out an out liar.
BTW, just how did Berg end up in the hands of Zarqawi?
As far as we know, Berg left "the hotel" telling a friend he was "going to the airport." Was he really?
How was he captured?
With each hostage story we seem to know the "how" - usually a convoy/auto ambush.
With Berg, nothing.
IMO, most of the kidnappees seem to be held by local sunni or shi'ite thugs and mafias. Yet Berg ended up in the hands of #3 AQ official Zarqawi. How does that happen?
A little to adventurous like Daniel Pearl?
Something else?
Why did daddy call him "their" "best friend."
Did some local peacenik/ANSWER contacts go wrong?
There's more to this story.
Nick's dad is a pile of lying pile of liberal crap.
John Gibson on Fox said he had talked to some U.S. contractors back from Iraq and was told there is no way any American would be running around the country with no attachment to any business or institution. Sounds a bit like a character in a graham Greene novel.
no one just wonders in iraq.
Something smells ....
Man....where's my tinfoil hat when I really need it?
Other fascinating thing is that the father already had a meeting with Kerry...
So if the source of the "smell" is found, we blow this display of TROP off?
I think your on to something. Elsewhere and acquaintance reportedly said that he had made lots of money, enough for a jaunt through Turkey.
I think his Islamic acquaintances set him up, and delivered him to AQ. A young, idealistic, non-conformist American must have seemed an easy mark. Throw him money for some "contract" and reel him in. I wonder if they got their money back, and how? Paper trail?
Arabs have been killing each other for thousands of years.
One day they are close friends. The next day, blood enemies. They kill their own people in "suicide" bombing, just to murder a few Westerners or Jews.
So if Berg was working with AQ, it would not surprise me if they killed on of their own.
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