Another interesting nugget. Who is the in-law?
This in-law is an Iraqi married to his paternal aunt.
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.
Yes, that's another puzzle piece I'd like to have answered. Who is the in-law and why is the in-law in Iraq?
"Another interesting nugget. Who is the in-law?"
Plus WHERE is the in-law since this happened?
Nick's aunt (his father's sister was married to an Iraqi and she is now deceased). Nick was suppose to be "visiting" that Uncle and his family.
Maybe he was speaking in code that his family would understand. But who knows?????
During his time in Iraq, he struggled with the Arabic language and worked at night on a tower in Abu Ghraib, a site of repeated attacks on U.S. convoys and the location of the notorious prison where U.S. soldiers abused Iraqi inmates.
His father, Michael Berg, told the AP that Michael's sister, now dead, married an Iraqi man named Mudafer, who became close to Nicholas. In one of the e-mails, Nicholas Berg describes going to the northern city of Mosul, where he introduced himself to Mudafer's brother, identified as Moffak Mustaffa. "We got along splendidly," Berg wrote. "We spent a few hours and I helped him establish an e-mail account."
Berg notes that "my presence ... made him more concerned (about his own safety and probably mine too) than I've been the entire time I've been here."
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In another article the father mentioned that he had a number of old friends and contacts in Iraq and the father said something along the lines of asking them for newsa bout his son. My impression was that he had known them for years.
Did Saddam Hussein and his hyperactive internal security apparatus let just any Americans and just any Iraqis do a lot of chatting? How many Iraqis could do that without fear?
It was his aunt's brother in-law. The aunt is deceased.