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BAGHDAD (AFP) - Four people have been arrested over the beheading of US businessman Nicholas Berg, whose killing was shown earlier this month in a video on an Al-Qaeda linked website, a senior Iraqi source said. Asked if more than one person had been arrested in connection with the killing, the source told AFP: "Yes, four people." Berg's beheading was shown on a grainy video posted on the Islamic website linked to Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s terror network, days after his body was found in Baghdad on May 8. "We have made good progress," the source added,...

Here's the link. I know the video is horrible. But people need to see the Evil we are up against. http://video.bmj.net/Alluh_Akbar.wmv

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1133908/posts The Beheading of an Innocent FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 5/12/04 | Walid PharesThe slaughtering of Nick Berg is one small step for terrorists and a major leap for the West’s encounter with Jihadism. The videotape, posted on the Ansar web site, was one of many horrifying acts perpetrated by the followers of Osama bin Laden. It ended up becoming a shameful benchmark in the West’s liberal media reporting.     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1133894/posts Islamic website shows beheading of American (U.S. Media says Abu Ghraib more important)WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Wednesday, May 12, 2004     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1133906/posts Images of an Execution (WARNING Graphic Images)FrontPageMagazine.com...

<p>May 13, 2004 -- The FBI warned the young American beheaded by terrorists to leave Iraq because new violence was sweeping the country, U.S. officials revealed yesterday.</p> <p>But Nick Berg, 26, turned down a State Department offer to fly him home, the officials said.</p>

<p>From the Big Apple to Nick Berg's hometown of West Chester, Pa., horrified Americans cried for revenge over the savage beheading of Nick Berg by Islamic terrorists lead by Abu Musab Zarqawi.</p> <p>Paramedic Moshe Hainig, 30, from Borough Park, Brooklyn, said the unspeakable act made him want to go to Iraq and fight.</p>

By Sobhy Mujahid, IOL Correspondent CAIRO, May 12 (IslamOnline.net) - Several scholars from Al-Azhar, the world's highest Sunni religious authority, condemned the decapitation of an American civilian by unknown people in Iraq, saying Islam stands against such acts. "Islam respects the human being, dead or alive, and cutting off the American's head was an act of mutilation forbidden by Islam," Ibrahim Al-Fayoumi, a member of Al-Azhar's Islamic Research Academy, told IslamOnline.net. He cited a number of verses from the holy Qur'an which affirm giving due respect to dead people regardless of their race or religion. However, Fayoumi suspected the whole...

<p>May 13, 2004 -- IMAGES are important. That's why America's major TV networks and newspapers have a responsibility to show the full Nick Berg video. Forget Abu Ghraib: Those are the words I've heard most often since the tape of militant Islamists cutting off Berg's head was made public Tuesday - though the first word was seldom forget.</p>

<p>The on-camera murder of Pennsylvania businessman Nicholas Berg should serve to remind us all what kind of enemies we are at war with in Iraq. Some in the press and Congress -- repeating the propaganda line of the terrorists -- assert that Mr. Berg's killing was committed in revenge for the mistreatment of Iraqi detainees by American guards that has dominated the news in recent weeks. This is absurd. Al Qaeda and its allies began murdering American civilians years ago: The September 11 attacks and the beheading of journalist Daniel Pearl, for example, occurred long before the world learned of the abuses at Abu Ghraib.</p>

As an American [applied for citizenship here from Iran since 1999], and a Muslim i would like to strongly condemn the brutal beheading of a fellow American in the hands of Barbarians. I also, condemn Islamic terrorism across the world and join millions of others in Iran and i'm sure other places across the middle east in condemning these horrible acts. I moved here in 2000, i was a part of the student uprisings in 1999 in Iran. The very thing that the US is fighting right now in the middle east, are what students in Iran are fighting. There...

Beheaded American was arrested as a spy 'because of his Jewish name' By Toby Harnden in Baghdad and Marcus Warren in West Chester (Filed: 13/05/2004) Nicolas Berg, the American who was filmed being beheaded, had been previously arrested by Iraqi police and held on suspicion of being a spy because he had a Jewish name and an Israeli stamp in his passport, it emerged yesterday. At the Al Fanar Tower Hotel in Baghdad, friends spoke fondly of a body-building adventurer who shrugged off danger, was passionate about his family and had been capitalising on the technology boom in Iraq after...

frame grab taken from web site video footage May 11, 2004, shows a man, who identified himself as Nick Berg of Philadelphia (C) seated in front of his five masked captors moments before he was executed. Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq beheaded an American civilian and vowed more killings in revenge for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners, an Islamist Web site said on Tuesday. After one of the masked men read out a statement, they pushed Berg to the floor and shouted 'God is greatest' above his screams as one of them sawed his head off with a large knife...

You know its hard to know what your actions will lead to....Thank you Hackworth for your part in "helping" our military and out country. Nick Berg thanks you. "My name is Nick Berg, my father's name is Michael, my mother's name is Susan," the man said on the video. "I have a brother and sister, David and Sarah. I live in ... Philadelphia http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&u=/ap/20040511/ap_on_re_mi_ea/egypt_iraq_american_beheaded_3&printer=1

Video on Islamic militant Web site appears to show beheading of American

WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — The family of an American civilian shown beheaded on an Islamic militant Web site huddled in in tears Tuesday after learning of the existence of the graphic videotape. The video showed Nick Berg, 26, in a staged execution carried out by an al-Qaida affiliated group. The video said the killing was to avenge the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers. "My name is Nick Berg, my father's name is Michael, my mother's name is Suzanne," the man said on the video before being killed. "I have a brother and sister, David and Sara. I...

<p>Islamic Web site claims revenge killing Video shows beheading of man identified as AmericanBREAKING NEWS The Associated Press Updated: 1:28 p.m. ET May 11, 2004CAIRO, Egypt - A video posted Tuesday on an Islamic militant Web site showed a group affiliated with al-Qaida beheading an American civilian in Iraq, saying the death was revenge for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers.</p>

DUBAI, May 11 (Reuters) - An Islamist Web site said Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an ally of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, was the man who cut off the head of an American in Iraq in a video tape shown on the site on Tuesday. A masked man had read out a statement before the killing which was signed off with the name of Zarqawi and dated May 11.

Juvenile Bomber Planned to Blow Himself Up (IsraelNN.com) The 14-year-old suicide bomber apprehended near a Shechem checkpoint earlier today told army officers that he was not just carrying the bomb belt under his shirt, but was planning to blow himself up. He told army officials he was given NIS 100 (about $20) and promised sex when he arrives in heaven. According to IDF Lt.-Col. Guy, the commander of Paratrooper Battalion 202, the bomb belt being worn by the terrorist weighed approximately eight kilograms (17.5 pounds) and the terrorist, Hissam Abdu Bilal, a resident of Shechem, explained he did plan to...

Soldiers catch Palestinian boy wearing explosive belt By Haaretz Service Israel Defense Forces soldiers caught a Palestinian boy, aged about 8, wearing an explosive belt at the Hawara roadblock south of Nablus in the West Bank. Sappers detonated the device in a controlled explosion. The boy has been taken in for questioning. The army believes that the boy was meant to detonate the belt near the soldiers or near the nearby army base. Just last week, soldiers found an explosive charge on a cart pushed by a 10-year-old Palestinian boy at the same roadblock. The soldiers released the boy after...

Last fall, as the controversy over his film "The Passion of the Christ" was heating up, Mel Gibson found time to visit the Burbank, Calif., headquarters of ABC. The actor-director came to discuss "Savages," a proposed sitcom -- about a divorced firefighter raising five sons -- that Gibson and his partners were pitching. Like any good salesman, Gibson personalized his pitch, telling ABC executives that the script was partly based on his own household, where he and wife Robyn are raising seven kids. "A lot of the main character is a Mel Gibson type, kind of a guy's guy," says...

From the beginning, planners of the 400th anniversary of the Jamestown settlement wanted the participation of Virginia's eight Native American tribes. But things were shaky from the start -- the committee asked tribal leaders to join in preparations for the Jamestown 2007 "celebration." After the chiefs pointed out that Native Americans have no reason to celebrate the founding of the first permanent English settlement on their ancestral land, the year-long series of events was swiftly renamed a "commemoration." Now, the degree of tribal participation is again in question over an issue that the planners says they can do little about...