[Lonesome in Massachussets]

One thing's certian. If Berg were a CIA agent, his cover story company would certainly have been registered in PA.

[Robert Drobot]

Michael Savage was talking about Berg's father saying the captors didn't know what a friend they had - that they made a big mistake in killing his son.

Say what?????

Why was Berg REALLY doing in Iraq....and with whom????

[SunnyUsa]

One thing's certian. If Berg were a CIA agent, his cover story company would certainly have been registered in PA

Nothing he did makes me think he was CIA - it was either complete naivette - or something else in the wacko category.

[Dudoight]

How about being a possible Israeli agent?

[katana]

One item mentioned a couple days ago was that Iraqi police noted an Israeli visa stamp in his passport and that was the reason for his detention (now disputed).

There's nothing wrong with this per se except that it would be careless and stupid. It is a long established practice for anybody visiting Israel who is also a) planning on visiting any Arab countries using the same passport, and b) in possession of brains and/or common sense to have Israeli customs stamp a piece of paper for temporary inclusion in your passport instead of the permanent body of the passport itself.

Nobody working for the agency or even anybody with any knowledge or experience with the region would be unaware of the risks of entering Iraq with an Israeli stamp in his or her passport. Nobody.

[Edit35]

One thing's certain. If Berg were a CIA agent, his cover story company would certainly have been registered in PA.

From what I've heard and read about Nick Berg, the CIA would not touch him with a 300-mile pole. Nick Berg was naive, not to mention a dangerous traveler (Israeli passport stamp? What a dufe)

To the contrary, I believe Nick Berg was in fact very anti-Iraq war, very anti-Bush almost the same as his father, Mike Berg, who now blames GWB for having his son crucified, or whatever.

But Nick Berg knew he could not go around mouthing his opposition to the Iraq war and at the same time get a visa to travel in Iraq.

The truth is, there is a fine line in the minds of liberals between supporting what they claim are the "Iraqi people" and supporting the Saddam Hussein crowd who still try and regain power.

How many times have you heard liberals spouting off how the US is opressing the Iraqi people, when what they really mean is that we are going after the Iraqi extremists who continue to kill our soldiers.

Many liberals consider the Saddam underground army to be the same as the Iraqi freedom fighters.

Hope I made sense.

[finnigan2]

Ponder this:
If the son was a leftist radical like his father, what better cover than a shell communications company to justify foreign travel plus a supposed infatuation with Bush and his Iraq policy as a way of diverting attention away from has true ANSWER sympathies. With the recent information that the son had ties with one of the 9/11 terrorists while they were at university together (Berg allowed him to use his e-mail address), I tend to think that Berg was in Iraq as an ANSWER rep to establish some sort of loose ties/ assistance arrangement with Al Qeada. Unfortunately, his American/Jewish background proved to be too tempting to the terrorists and overrode any potential benefit they could see in such an association. Just a kid playing James Bond with psychopaths' that he couldn't begin to fathom in their hatred and viciousness. Just a theory, but as they say, ya gotta try and connect the dots.