[Dane]

I am sorry to say, but there is something screwy here. Giving your e-mail password is akin giving your PIN # for your ATM card to me.

Of course he could have been an idealistic college kid, but there are a lot of things not adding up.

[BigSkyFreeper]

With the number of free e-mail services out there, I don't know why he gave Moussaoui his personal e-mail password. Berg was obviously too naive.

[jpl]

I'm inclined to agree. I know there's a lot of stupid college students out there, but letting a complete stranger use your e-mail account is beyond the normal level of college kid stupidity.

And an e-mail typed up on a bus wouldn't go out until the computer was reconnected to the Internet somehow, meaning it would have to be retained within memory. Personally, I'd sure as hell want to read any e-mail someone was sending out in my name!

[KosmicKitty]

I am sorry to say, but there is something screwy here. Giving your e-mail password is akin giving your PIN # for your ATM card to me.

I ran a small university computer lab from '94 to '96 and was in charge of the school's e-mail system. The biggest problem we had was convincing not only the students, but the FACULTY, not to share their e-mail account information with anyone.

The FACULTY was always pi$$ed off at me because I wouldn't let them use their name as their password - how's that for security. And many students saw no problem with writting their account name AND password on the cover of their notebooks, not the inside cover, the outside cover!!

We even had one idiot, vegan, screaming liberal, wore a bandana around his neck all the time, philosophy professor give his FREE e-mail account to his step-son for the kid's birthday. (Could you get any cheaper than that!!!) Then this idiot has the nerve to complain to the president of the school when the kid hacks the mail system and we cancelled the professor's account!!

Strange coincidence -yes, anything deeper, not from my experience in the hall of higher ed!!!!

[Freedom of Speech Wins]

It is one thing to go onto a computer on a college campus that someone else has logged into with their campus id. It would be believable to me that maybe he got up from a computer and ZM sat down at it and sent an email.

However it is less believable to me that he would get up from the computer or let ZM sit down at it while he is logged into an email account.

I would think that he would log out before he lets the other "student" sit down.

Maybe the computer saved his password, but I doubt it.

And he just happens to end up with what the #3 guy of AQ in Iraq. He didn't get caught by other guys, instead he gets caught by this guy.

After not having taken what a free flight home?

Carrying books that were suspicious.

A communications, specialist, possibly radio signal specialist.

Though weighing in his favor is his prior interest and experience in communications which would lead me to believe he wasn't a John Lindh or an Akhbar.

Still I don't tend to believe so much in coincidence.

Also he looks very different in different pictures. His hair even goes from blonde to brown in the pictures.