[NICK BERG] EXECUTION: FOUR HELD

Sky News ^ | 18 May, 2004 | Sky News

[Eurotwit]

Updated: 15:19 UK, Tuesday May 18, 2004

EXECUTION: FOUR HELD

Four people have been arrested over the beheading of American Nicholas Berg, Iraq sources say.

The 26-year-old businessman's decapitated body was found 10 days ago in Baghdad.

His killing was shown around the world on the internet.

The poor quality website video showed Berg dressed in orange overalls kneeling on the floor with his hands tied back.

There were five masked men behind him. One read a statement urging Muslims to take revenge over the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers.

The masked men then pushed the American contractor to the floor and shouted "God is greatest" above his screams.

His head was cut off with a knife and then held aloft.

The website said the execution was performed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a top ally of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

It is not known if he was among the four people arrested.

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To: blam

Baghdad - Four people have been arrested over the beheading of US businessman Nicholas Berg, whose decapitated body was found in Baghdad, senior Iraqi sources said on Tuesday.

Nicholas Berg's headless body was found May 9 in western Baghdad. Three days later, a videotape posted on an al-Qaeda-related website showed him being decapitated by hooded men.

Berg's captors said the killing was to avenge abuses of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison by US forces.

News 24 South Africa

75 posted on 05/18/2004 9:57:28 AM EDT by Dog Gone

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[Dog Gone]

Baghdad - Four people have been arrested over the beheading of US businessman Nicholas Berg, whose decapitated body was found in Baghdad, senior Iraqi sources said on Tuesday.

[Nexus]

Excellent!

[Tijeras_Slim]

Bump for details as available.

[American_Centurion]

Nick Berg, Daniel Perl, or someone else?

[Jaded]

Ditto

[dead]

I hope we don't make them get naked or wear underwear on their head.

Put them up in a five-star hotel and serve them lobster so as to not insult their special muslim cultural sensitivities.

[Sunshine Sister]

Off with their heads! No I'm not joking.

[leadpenny]

I was just going to check out of the net and get something done.

Not now!

[Eurotwit]

It is Berg. It came from Baghdad.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Their heads should roll.

[smith288]

Slowly knife their heads off with a rusty pair of scissors on camera.

[Damocles]

AFP: Four arrested over beheading of American

Now waiting for headline:

AFP: Four EXECUTED over beheading of American

[dfwgator]

Give 'em the Comfy Chair.

[MarineDad]

They should be turned into "former" rag heads...by losing the latter. Scum.

[The G Man]

Hoping against hope that one is Al Zarqawi (sp)

[AmericanInTokyo]

The US military is looking for more soccer balls to distribute to the Iraqi people.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm......

[Cap Huff]

Whoa!!! Let's hope it leads directly to Zarqawi!

[familyofman]

I'll delay my celebration until some source other than Sky News confirms the story. They've been wrong a few times in the past.

[American_Centurion]

I expected as much, but headlines can be vague.

Thanks.

[woofie]

dittos

[dufekin]

Make sure those lobsters are live, in tanks of cold water, and don't have any tape on their pinchers. We don't want to offend the lobsters, do we?

[Heff]

Regrettably, the detainees died on route to the holding facility. No explanation was given for their sudden death and nobody really cares to know any further details.

I can have a dream...can't I?

[Peach]

Keep us posted as you get news. Thanks.

[leadpenny]

Nothing on the three 24/7's yet.

[OXENinFLA]

OH PLEASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSE tell me one was al-Zarquai!!!

[Ragirl]

I hope these monsters get the kotex treatment in prison. Oh, that would be too cruel--nevermind. (sarcasm off) This is good news.

[sauropod]

I think we should feed them pork chops. And invite them to wrestle some nekkid Arab women in a pool full of bacon grease.

[epigone73]

Not the Comfy Chair

[Dog Gone]

Weren't there five terrorists in the video?

[ladtx]

Sounds like a Bill Clinton type of sport.

[Anti-Bubba182]

EXECUTION: FOUR ARRESTED

Four people have been arrested over the beheading of US businessman Nicholas Berg, whose decapitated body was found 10 days ago in Baghdad.

More follows..

That is all so far.

[The G Man]

Weren't there five terrorists in the video?

Yep.$10 says I know which one is missing.

[N. Theknow]

Cover them with the pheromones of a sow in heat and put them in a pen with feral boars.

[dfwgator]

OK, how 'bout the Soft Pillows?

[bmwcyle]

Bowl with their heads.

[Peter J. Huss]

'No, no!' said the Queen. 'Sentence first -- verdict afterwards.'

[mel]

When I saw that guy with the panties on his head, I laughed so hard. I know that is politically incorrect to say but enough of the nakedness just put the panties on their heads and laugh at them.

[RGSpincich]

nobody really cares to know any further details.

Excepting Michael S. Berg who had filed a federal suit to keep the beheaders in protective custody./s

[abner]

Michael Berg says, "Hey, you got the wrong guys! You should be arresting Bush & Rumsfeld."

[Semper Paratus]

hope these monsters get the kotex treatment in prison.

Only if the rag is used and laced with sarin.

[OXENinFLA]

Yup, 5 in the video.

[Eurotwit]

I agree.

Sky are really quick to relay info from the wire services. This was from AFP. Personally, I appreaciate that they do this, but initial reports can be very inaccurate.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Pssst, they can't eat shellfish ;-)

[Quilla]

I'm not taking that bet, but wouldn't it be something if we had AZ in custody. One can only pray.

[Constitution Day]

Put their heads on pikes!

[woofie]

Gee........ Im hoping the US follows the rules as laid out by the Geneva Convention ..Those people who murder innocent people deserve to be treated humanely

[jocon307]

"Hoping against hope that one is Al Zarqawi (sp)"

yes, they've got 4 of 5, probably all but him.

[American_Centurion]

There was at least one more present holding the camera.

There may have been two cameras.

Confirmed 6 with possible 7, we can't let them off either.

[Sabertooth]

Let us start dulling our knives.

As they sowed, let them reap.

[papertyger]

Off with their heads! No I'm not joking.

Can't we all just get a thong?