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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry
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To: Wayners who wrote (23286)5/16/2004 9:53:11 PM
From: Emile VidrineRead Replies (2) of 81568
 
Was Nicholas Berg An Israeli Spy?

Was Nicholas Berg an Israeli spy? What is known is that he studied arabic just before he illegally entered Iraq and then was arrested by the Iraqis for being an Israeli spy.

Berg told friends Iraqi police mistook him for an Israeli spy

By Robert Moran

Knight Ridder Newspapers

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Nicholas Berg, the 26-year-old American whose videotaped decapitation was posted on the Internet, told friends here that Iraqi police arrested him because he had a Jewish-sounding last name and an Israeli stamp in his passport.
"They thought he was a spy," said Hugo Infante, a Chilean who works for the United Press International news service and lives at the al Fanar Hotel in central Baghdad, where Berg stayed until he checked out April 10 to return to the United States.
Berg apparently was taken hostage and then executed sometime before Saturday, when his headless body was discovered in a western suburb of Baghdad.
Why Berg was arrested, who held him, what happened to him after his release and what role his religion might have had in his death are key questions about the final days of the former Cornell University student with a penchant for travel to Third World countries.
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