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.
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