http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/nickberg/ en-us Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:54:01 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1805721/posts MIAMI, (AP) -- A federal judge refused to dismiss the terrorism support charges against alleged al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla on Friday, rejecting defense claims that his 3 1/2 years in custody as an enemy combatant violated his constitutional right to a speedy trial. U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke agreed with prosecutors that Padilla's years in isolation at a Navy brig did not count because he had not yet been charged. The criminal charges came when Padilla was added to an existing Miami terrorism support indictment in November 2005. Only then did the clock start for the Sixth Amendment's right to... AP via SFGate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1805721/posts#comment Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:54:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1640733/posts The Meaning of 'Islamofascism' The MEMRI Report By STEVEN STALINSKY May 24, 2006 Since the war on terrorism began many new Arabic and Islamic terms including "Fatwa" and "Jihad" have been introduced to Western vernacular. To the displeasure of some Islamists other terms such as "homicide bomber" and "Islamofascism" have also been introduced. An article titled "How the Right Played the Fascism Card Against Islam" on the Web site of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is highly critical of using the term "Islamofascism": NYSun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1640733/posts#comment Tue, 30 May 2006 19:11:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1651329/posts How [radical] Islam makes one into a fascist, whether you are Arab, black, etc. The broader view of the deep & wide reality of Islamofascism What do the Arab Muslim massacre in NYC WTC, The Pakistani Muslim bombing in London, the Arab Muslim bombing in Madrid, an Indonesian attack on Australians in Bali, an Arab Muslim racist attack on an ordinary Jew in Paris, Arabs' onslaught in the genocide campaign in Sudan, WW2's Bosnian Muslims attacking Christian Serbs, Jordanian Arab murderer: Zarqawi that seperated (Nazi style) between Shiite & Sunni kids on a bus, Arab slave masters in Mauritania, a... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1651329/posts#comment Sun, 18 Jun 2006 05:56:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1650798/posts Of all of the holidays a grieving father can be confronted with after the death of his child, Father’s Day is for me the most difficult. My son Nick died in Iraq on May 7, 2004. He is buried next to my father, who had died just a year and a half before. That is not the way it’s supposed to be. -snip-There is a lot else going on that is not the way it is supposed to be. Our leaders are not supposed to lie to us. Yet because George Bush and company told us to beware of weapons... Independent http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1650798/posts#comment Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:33:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1648859/posts Apparently, being the parent of a child murdered by a Muslim terrorist gives one moral credibility. There is no other way to explain the vast attention paid to the ideas of Michael Berg, father of Nick Berg, the American who was slaughtered by the Islamic sadist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. That is also the only explanation for the all the attention Cindy Sheehan has received. It is not because of the intellectual and moral depth of her worldview. But the attention paid to Michael Berg has been very helpful in enabling many more people to understand the thinking and values of... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1648859/posts#comment Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:19:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1648303/posts Apparently, being the parent of a child murdered by a Muslim terrorist gives one moral credibility. There is no other way to explain the vast attention paid to the ideas of Michael Berg, father of Nick Berg, the American who was slaughtered by the Islamic sadist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. That is also the only explanation for the all the attention Cindy Sheehan has received. It is not because of the intellectual and moral depth of her worldview. But the attention paid to Michael Berg has been very helpful in enabling many more people to understand the thinking and values of... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1648303/posts#comment Tue, 13 Jun 2006 05:26:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645926/posts 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... CNN.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645926/posts#comment Fri, 9 Jun 2006 00:32:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645838/posts If you are looking for the legacy of Abu Musab al Zarqawi, do not look in the concrete rubble of so-called safe house in Baqubah that became his final resting place. Instead, look less than 10 miles to the west, on the side of the road in the desert town of Hadid, for a pile of cardboard banana boxes. Inside those boxes were nine human heads. Some of the heads still had their blindfolds on. Iraqi police are still attempting to identify the murdered men. Days earlier, in Baquba, Iraqi police found another eight severed heads. One of those heads... Human Events Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645838/posts#comment Thu, 8 Jun 2006 21:17:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645773/posts Father of Nick Berg guest for the 1st hour. Michael Medved http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645773/posts#comment Thu, 8 Jun 2006 19:11:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645647/posts Nick Berg's Dad was just on MSNBC almost in tears in front of his home saying that Bush is on the same level of Zarqawi and that they both are murderers. Saying his thoughts and prayers are with Zarqawi's family as they now have lost a loved one like his family did. No mention of the fact that Zarqawi killed his own son. Said there is no right to take a human life on this Earth...went on about an illegal war...Bush being a mass killer too...etc...blah blah. By the way..for those playing the home version of this game of insanity... MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645647/posts#comment Thu, 8 Jun 2006 16:27:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645604/posts Berg: No good in al-Zarqawi's death DOVER, Del. - The father of Nicholas Berg, a U.S. contractor believed to have been beheaded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq, said Thursday that he doesn't see any good coming from al-Zarqawi's death. "I see more death coming out of al-Zarqawi's death," Michael Berg told The Associated Press after learning a U.S. air strike had killed the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi is believed to have beheaded two American civilians in 2004: Nicholas Berg, a 26-year-old businessman from West Chester, Pa., and Eugene Armstrong, a 52-year-old contractor from Hillsdale, Mich. Jack Hensley,... AP via Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645604/posts#comment Thu, 8 Jun 2006 15:29:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645505/posts PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Michael Berg, whose son Nick was beheaded in Iraq in 2004, said on Thursday he felt no sense of relief at the killing of the al Qaeda in Iraq leader blamed for his son's death. Asked what would give him satisfaction, Berg, an anti-war activist and candidate for U.S. Congress, said: "The end of the war and getting rid of George Bush." The United States said its aircraft killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the insurgent leader who masterminded the death of hundreds in suicide bombings and was blamed for the videotaped beheading of Nick Berg, a U.S. contractor,... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645505/posts#comment Thu, 8 Jun 2006 13:26:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1624178/posts Michael Berg has come to terms with his son's murderer. But to most Americans that man is still enemy No.1, writes Martin Daly in New York. In the darkness, when the pain becomes too great, Michael Berg pulls out a chair for the man who decapitated his son and talks to him about compassion and forgiveness. Michael Berg has cried publicly many times for his dead son but he has forgiven Zarqawi, considered by the Americans to be the premier threat to peace in Iraq, but who remains free despite a $US25 million ($33 million) bounty on his head, and... The Sydney Morning Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1624178/posts#comment Sun, 30 Apr 2006 17:19:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1606283/posts PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Almost two years after the videotaped beheading of U.S. contractor Nick Berg in Iraq, his father is running a third-party race for the U.S. Congress on a platform seeking a complete withdrawal of American troops. Michael Berg, a veteran anti-war activist and retired schoolteacher who campaigns in jeans and a T-shirt, is the Green Party candidate for the Delaware seat of seven-term Republican Rep. Michael Castle (news, bio, voting record). Berg, 61, acknowledges that his late entry into politics is a result of his son's grisly death at the hands of hooded captors in May 2004. The... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1606283/posts#comment Thu, 30 Mar 2006 19:11:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1605152/posts Michael Berg says he and Nick shared a belief in taking a principled stand. It is this belief that Mr. Berg says inspired his Green Party bid for Delaware's only Congressional seat in the wake of Nick's kidnapping and killing in Iraq two years ago. "Nick stood by what he thought was right," said Mr. Berg, a 61-year-old former teacher who is trying to unseat a seven-term Republican, Michael N. Castle. "I plan on doing the same." The videotaped beheading of Nick Berg, a 26-year-old freelance radio-tower repairman, shocked a world audience after it was broadcast on the Internet. "I'm... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1605152/posts#comment Wed, 29 Mar 2006 04:55:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1569867/posts Welcome to the page for "It's In The Koran." To watch the video, currently hosted (I'm not proud of this) by China's Favorite Internet Company®, click here. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1569867/posts#comment Thu, 2 Feb 2006 03:23:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1549092/posts Mr. Schwarzenegger may find himself politically embattled these days in his home state, but here he is still a major draw. Along Saddoun Street, one of the capital's main arteries, Mr. Talib has hung a black-and-white billboard showing a young Mr. Schwarzenegger in a formidable bicep-flexing pose. "The first inspiration I had for bodybuilding was Arnold," Mr. Talib, a squat man built like a bulldozer, said in his back-room office as metal weights clanked outside. "Now I aspire to improve the sport in Iraq." Mr. Talib is in regular e-mail contact with Governor Schwarzenegger's office in Sacramento, apprising officials there... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1549092/posts#comment Fri, 30 Dec 2005 05:08:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1538310/posts The News Journal of Delaware reported today that Michael Berg, father of terror victim Nick Berg, is running for Congress from his new home in Delaware.Nick Berg was a civilian who went to Iraq several times seeking to help the Iraqi people by rebuilding radio towers. He was kidnapped by terrorists and beheaded, reportedly by Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Al Zarqawi.Berg briefly became a darling of the Bush-hating media when television news showed him collapsing in his front yard in West Chester, Pennsylvania when he was told by members of the press that a videotape of his son's beheading... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1538310/posts#comment Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:03:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1524976/posts MILAN - Playing an Internet video one evening last year, an Egyptian radical living in Milan reveled as the head of an American, Nicholas Berg, was sawed off by his Iraqi captors. Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed's computer had a picture of a briefcase bomb that could be set off by a cellphone. "Go to hell, enemy of God!" shouted the man, Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed, as Mr. Berg's screams were broadcast. "Kill him! Kill him! Yes, like that! Cut his throat properly. Cut his head off! If I had been there, I would have burned him to make him already... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1524976/posts#comment Sat, 19 Nov 2005 03:07:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1524369/posts MILAN - Playing an Internet video one evening last year, an Egyptian radical living in Milan reveled as the head of an American, Nicholas Berg, was sawed off by his Iraqi captors. Yahia Ragheh, foreground, and Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed being led into a Milan court last month, charged with ties to a terror network. "Go to hell, enemy of God!" shouted the man, Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed, as Mr. Berg's screams were broadcast. "Kill him! Kill him! Yes, like that! Cut his throat properly. Cut his head off! If I had been there, I would have burned him to... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1524369/posts#comment Fri, 18 Nov 2005 07:29:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1508515/posts At least 21 detainees who died while being held in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan were killed, many during or after interrogations, according to an analysis of Defense Department data by the Aerican Civil Liberties Union. The analysis, released Monday, looked at 44 deaths described in records obtained by the ACLU. Of those, the group characterized 21 as homicides, and said at least eight resulted from abusive techniques by military or intelligence officers, such as strangulation or "blunt force injuries," as noted in the autopsy reports. The 44 deaths represent a partial group of the total number of prisoners... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1508515/posts#comment Tue, 25 Oct 2005 00:09:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473592/posts George Bush never looked into Nick's eyes Even more than the murderers who took my son's life, I condemn those who make policies to end lives Michael Berg Friday May 21, 2004 The Guardian My son, Nick, was my teacher and my hero. He was the kindest, gentlest man I know; no, the kindest, gentlest human being I have ever known. He quit the Boy Scouts of America because they wanted to teach him to fire a handgun. Nick, too, poured into me the strength I needed, and still need, to tell the world about him. People ask me why... Guardian Unlimited http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473592/posts#comment Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:47:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1447018/posts Last week I was outraged at the behavior of a handful of reservists and disgusted by the pictures that have been plastered all over every media source around the world. I am no longer outraged. Arrest those guilty, give them a fair trial, and put those found guilty in jail--end of story. No more apologies; no more hearings; no more embarrassment over what happened. The hideous butcher of an American citizen by faceless terrorists and the video put out by creatures I used to refer to as ''animals'' has changed all that. As they held up this young man's severed... CHRONWATCH.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1447018/posts#comment Wed, 20 Jul 2005 19:49:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1399497/posts PHILADELPHIA - Michael Berg has forgiven his son's killers. It doesn't mean he's not angry. He still hates their actions. He still wants justice. What it means, he told an audience not long ago in an Oklahoma City church, is that he doesn't seek vengeance. "I am a man of peace," he said, although clearly not always at peace. "I beseech others at every opportunity to be the same. I cannot accomplish my goal with hatred in my heart." It has been a year of searingly painful anniversaries for Berg: The day his son, Nick, returned to Iraq to repair... Knight Ridder News Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1399497/posts#comment Mon, 9 May 2005 14:25:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1398725/posts PHILADELPHIA -- Relatives of Nicholas Berg, the young American entrepreneur beheaded in Iraq, have taken different paths as they've searched for solace in the year since his death. His father, Michael Berg, has intensified his anti-war activities and traveled the globe to meet families of other civilians kidnapped or slain in Iraq. His weekly peace vigil at a suburban Philadelphia courthouse and frequent interviews contrast sharply with the response of his wife, Suzanne, who has grieved privately since her son's body was found on a Baghdad street on May 8, 2004. "We're through the worst of the friction that emerged... New York Newsday/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1398725/posts#comment Sat, 7 May 2005 22:52:32 GMT