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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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From: steve harris6/8/2006 8:47:35 AM
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lol,
it didn't take long.....

msnbc.msn.com

Michael Berg, whose son Nick was beheaded in Iraq in 2004, had a different reaction to the news that al-Zarqawi had been killed in an air strike, saying he felt “no sense of relief, just sadness that another human being had to die.”

“As the poet John Donne said, any man’s death diminishes me. It doesn’t bring my son back, and this will just bring a new cycle of revenge killings,” the father said.

Al-Zarqawi’s organization took responsibility for the execution of Nick Berg. When an Islamist Web site showed a video of a man severing Berg’s head, the CIA said al-Zarqawi was probably the one wielding the knife.

The video was published with a caption saying: “Abu Musab al-Zarqawi slaughtering an American.”

Michael Berg said he was not convinced that al-Zarqawi’s organization was responsible for his son’s killing. “I have been lied to by my own government,” he said.

Asked what would give him satisfaction, Berg, an anti-war activist and candidate for Congress with the Green Party, said: “The end of the war and getting rid of George Bush.
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