Posted on 06/08/2006 5:32:11 PM PDT by DaveTesla
WEST CHESTER, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- When Nicholas Berg took an Oklahoma bus to a remote college campus a few years ago, the American recently beheaded by terrorists allowed a man with terrorist connections to use his laptop computer, according to his father.
Michael Berg said the FBI investigated the matter more than a year ago. He stressed that his son was in no way connected to the terrorists who captured and killed him.
Government sources told CNN that the encounter involved an acquaintance of Zacarias Moussaoui -- the only person publicly charged in the United States in connection with the September 11, 2001, terror attacks.
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we will never find out the real truth about this Berg story.
I remember it.
That story totally doesn't wash. Who gives someone on a bus their password and laptop? Totally bogus. I've never even heard this before.
Possible a family connection to terror? Perhaps that is why Mr. Berg is so mad at Bush and not at his son's killer?
It is just too disturbingly odd that he would be so impassive about the man who beheaded his son.
Thanks for posting this. I have been asking the specifics about this.... since I heard the news this morning.
Didn't Nick Berg also have a meeting with Michael Moore at some point?
yes, one of his F911 film crews.
There is just something so strange about all of this. And his dad is defending the terrorist. Hmmm.
It's been posted here for over two years.
Berg, unlike most of his family, was a supporter of the 2003 invasion of Iraq and of Bush administration policy. He traveled to Iraq in the hope of helping to repair its damaged infrastructure. He first arrived in Iraq on December 21, 2003, and made arrangements to secure contract work for his company. He also went to the northern city of Mosul, visiting an Iraqi man whose brother had been married to Berg's late aunt. Leaving on February 1, he returned to Iraq on March 14, 2004, only to find that the work he was promised was unavailable. Throughout his time in Iraq, he maintained frequent contact with his family in the United States by telephone and e-mail.
Berg had intended to return to the United States on March 30, 2004, but he was detained in Mosul on March 24 by Iraqi police at a checkpoint. His family claims he was turned over to U.S. officials and held for 13 days without access to legal counsel. FBI agents visited his parents to confirm his identity on March 31, but he was not immediately released. After his parents filed suit in federal court in Philadelphia on April 5, claiming that he was being held illegally, he was released from custody. He said that he had not been mistreated during his confinement. The U.S. maintains that at no time was Berg in coalition custody, but rather that he was held by Iraqi forces. The Mosul police deny they ever arrested Berg, and Berg's family has turned over an email from the U.S. consul stating "I have confirmed that your son, Nick, is being detained by the U.S. military in Mosul."[2] According to the Associated Press, Berg was released from custody on April 6 and advised by U.S. officials to take a flight out of Iraq, with their assistance. Berg is said to have refused this offer and traveled to Baghdad, where he stayed at the Al Fanar Hotel. His family last heard from him on April 9. Berg had his last contact with U.S. officials on April 10 and did not return again to his hotel after that date.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Berg
Moore interviewed Berg for "Fahrenheit"
May 27, 2004 | Filmmaker Michael Moore filmed an interview with American Nicholas Berg in the course of producing his documentary film "Fahrenheit 9/11" before Berg left for Iraq, where he was taken hostage and killed, Moore confirmed to Salon in a statement Thursday. The 20 minutes of footage does not appear in the final version of "Fahrenheit 911," according to the statement.
http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/feature/2004/05/27/fahrenheit_911/index.html
Thanks... I new he was tied into the Oklahoma situation. I thought it was his cell phone.
I hate to speak ill of the dead (especially a guy who died like that), but it seems to me that the odds against these two things being totally coincidental are pretty darn high. It's just too weird.
I'm thinking Nicholas Berg was half a fag, if not more.
I have always believed that the 'Nick Berg was a big Bush supporter' story was a front for his activities. I suspect he offered himself to the insurgents for them to use him against the USA. They did but not in the way he thought. I;m sure in never occurred to him that they might behead him as he was on their side. The insurgents are unspeakable villains.
Any information on how he knew Michael Moore and why MM would single him out for his schlockumentary?
Everybody here who has happened by chance to sit beside a terrorist, and volunteered to give up their password to their personal email account, please raise your hand....hello? ...hello?
There is so much of the truth going untold in this story.
Interesting subplot.
Publicly, there is no information of Nick Berg meeting with Michael Moore because Michael Moore never went to Iraq himself. He made a documentary about a foreign land without actually going there.
Wikipedia as a source does not work for me.
I'm not sure. Maybe someone else knows.
I agree with your assessment.
He's the Forest Gump of jihad.
Maybe I need to adjust my tinfoil hat a little, but it wouldn't surprise me a great deal if the video had been photoshopped and Nick Berg turned up alive.
I know know how to handle to "news" that he supported the president or the war.
Charles Bishop/Bishra was reported to be a "member" of the Young Conservatives in school but his suicide note pledged support for Bin Laden when the Tampa teen stole that plane and crashed it into a bank after the 9-11 attacks.
Sometimes a convenient cover story is used to hide terrorist ties.
While Berg's "chance encounter" with a terrorist has been confirmed, there has not been confirmation of his support for the president or the war. And when Nick Berg was offered a trip out of Iraq, he chose to stay.
I thought Berg was a German name?
Should read "I don't know..."
A googglesearch of Nick berg and Michael Moore brings up a lot of stuff. It appears that Moore did meet with Berg prior to his going to Iraq but Moore strangely says it was between them and he won't talk about it.
NOBODY gives their password to strangers. If somebody sitting next to me wanted to e-mail someone, I would tell them to sign up with Hotmail.
Nick Berg was also held in custody by Iraqi police and/or US military before he was captured. He certainly raised someone's suspicions.
I'm sure there are things we are not being told. I am suprised the Michael Moore's footage was never screened for the US government who were trying to piece together what happened (and who may have details they won't share with the public, in the name of national security).
And again, Michael Moore did not single out Berg. Michael Moore was too chickensh!t to go to Iraq.
papa berg on larry king live now.
Okay, that IS news to me. Definitely a lot more going on behind the scenes than people want to confess to.
I still want to see Moore's blog post on the death of Zarqawi.
I remember all that.We had a really good thread going trying to add this all up.
Now that would be precious!
Axis of evil indeed...
Oh you better get some sleep!
Mike Berg is a member of International Answer, a Marxist/Communist/Stalinist front group.
The CPUSA actively collaborated with the Soviet Union during the Cold War in espionage and there's no reason to believe that this successor organization is not collaborating with America's successor enemies.
There is no coincidence whatever in Berg meeting Moussaoui, giving him his email address and password and then ending-up in Iraq. There is no proof whatever that Nicolas Berg was either a Republican, pro-Bush or pro-war. That's just a red herring for the consumption of the double-digit IQ'd press.
Mike and Nicolas Berg and ANSWER actively collaborated with the Islamofascists and got what they deserved.
Personally I think Berg went to Iraq to work for Moore and got himself killed. Moore suddenly clams up for the first time in his life.
The more I find out, the more it seems you're right. Maybe I'll watch the beheading again.
Hugo Infante, 31, a Chilean photographer who stayed at the Al Fanar, said he had met Mr Berg around April 6 when the American returned to Baghdad two weeks after saying he was going to Mosul on business for two days.
"He said, 'They arrested me because I had a Jewish last name and an Israeli stamp in my passport.' Then the Iraqi police put him with the US military because they thought he was a spy. Nick told me all this.
http://tinyurl.com/j6hd7
"My son died for the sins of George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld. This administration did this," Berg said in an interview with radio station KYW-AM.
In the interview from outside his home in West Chester, Pennsylvania, a seething Michael Berg also said his 26-year-old son, a civilian contractor, probably would have felt positive, even about his executioners, until the last minute.
"I am sure that he only saw the good in his captors until the last second of his life," Berg said. "They did not know what they were doing. They killed their best friend."
MIM: In this article Daniel Pearl's father makes a comparision to his son's murder and that of Nicolas Berg. It should be noted that after the beheading of his son by Al Qaeda's Al Zarqawi, Berg joined with the pro terrorist anti semitic A.N.S.W.E.R. group which was founded by former attorney general Ramsey Clark, who is now defending Saddam Hussein. More grotesquely still, at an A.N.S.W.E.R. in 2005, a message was read by Nicolas Berg's father. At the same rally , the father of convicted Al Qaeda member Ahmed Abu Ali, who was convicted of plotting to kill president Bush and set up a terrorist training camp, was a keynote speaker at the event.
http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/1306
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