[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.

[areafiftyone]

LOL - Most of the people in Kerryland ARE DUers! Scary isn't it? ((((Shudder))))

[SquirrelKing]

I thought sky news was a credible source

The only credible news sources are Boston Globe and the Mirror.

*sarcasm*

[sharktrager]

We've yet to actually handle any of these cases. The 9/11 guys are all dead. None of the head guys have been caught. All we have done with anyone is "detain" them.

So we haven't tried this. All we have done is capture and hold. What we have done doesn't work, and, frankly, doesn't even conform to what we say our country is all about. I accept it as necessary because the detainees are actually prisoners of war. These men are a different class.

Like it or not, these guys are criminals, and if we are serious about what the Founding Fathers said about the nature of man and rights, we need to handle criminals properly. If we just kill them or, as this thread has promoted many times, torture them to death (on tape no less), we are reinforcing the idea that we are no better than they are. If that is the case, we have no right to be outraged when they act like animals.

They need to be punished for their action, which includes execution. But brutal summary executions will have only a short-term impact.

[leadpenny]

Hmmmmm . . .

Hope it's true.

[RichardW]

I believe this is the translation from French.

"4 people linked to the execution of businessman Berg, body found 10 days ago in baghdad, have been arrested, confirmed tuesday by AFP a highly regarded Iraqi source. Asked if more than 1 person had been arrested he replied yes 4.

Then it talks about the execution distributed through internet and the source then continues to say that great progress has been made."

[Eurotwit]

Sky News is just reporting the AFP wire story.

See post 171.

[leadpenny]

Best laugh I've had this morning.

[Eastbound]

"Yup, 5 in the video."

Plus one or more crazies with cameras.

[EggsAckley]

How about making the wrestle with Alexandra Kerry in her see-through toga? After all, her father IS a Jew.........

[abner]

Thank you.

[null and void]

I like the way you think. I think...

[nuffsenuff]

I guess I'm more jaded than you are. You do have a point though. I know they don't really represent this country. But they do represent a portion of it. And that's dissappointing.

BTW... I was talking about their websites. Not the TV channels.

[Publius6961]

EXECUTION: FOUR HELD ???

MURDER, DAMMIT!

[Admin Moderator]

Updated.

[drymans wife]

Fox is just now reporting.

[ride the whirlwind]

Fox reporting this now.

[Musketeer]

Was just reported on ABC radio news...stated report as yet unconfirmed..

[Peter J. Huss]

we are reinforcing the idea that we are no better than they are.

This is going to be a very ugly, ugly war that may last a generation or longer. What will make us better than them is our ability to kill them more efficiently and in greater number than they can kill us.

[OXENinFLA]

Gheese those people in Kerryland are easy to lead. But it's hard hold back what I REALLY want to say.

[leadpenny]

I have CNN on (why, I don't know) but they just mentioned they are waiting for the latest military briefing from Baghdad. They will carry it live. I'm guessing that this will relieve them of the decision to report the story or not.