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To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (574046)	5/11/2004 2:03:57 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 769670

Tragic indeed. Maybe the guy lost his job to offshoring or outsourcing and so had to go to Iraq to help pay his mortgage. A real tragic convergence of the economic mess and foreign-policy mess that Dumbya has gotten ourselves into. :-((

To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (574046)	5/11/2004 2:18:35 PM
From: JDN	Respond to of 769670

Ok, here is the perpetuator of the heinous act, beheading a young american. jdn The web site said Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a top ally of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden (news - web sites), was the man who cut off Berg's head.

To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (574046)	5/11/2004 3:02:36 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Why was he arrested in Iraq? Suzanne Berg the family had been trying for weeks to learn where her son was but that federal officials had not been helpful. "I went through this with them for weeks," she said. "I basically ended up doing most of the investigating myself." Berg was in Baghdad from late December to Feb. 1 and had returned to Iraq in March. He didn't find any work and planned again to return home on March 30, but his daily communications home stopped on March 24. He later told his parents he was jailed by Iraqi officials at a checkpoint in Mosul. "He was arrested and held without due process," Michael Berg told the Daily Local News of West Chester. "By the time he got out, the whole area was inflamed with violence." On March 31, the FBI (news - web sites) interviewed Berg's parents in West Chester. Jerri Williams, a spokeswoman for the Philadelphia FBI office, told The Philadelphia Inquirer the agency had been "asked to interview the parents regarding Mr. Berg's purpose in Iraq." On April 5, the Bergs filed a lawsuit in federal court in Philadelphia, contending that their son was being held illegally by the U.S. military. The next day Berg was released. He told his parents he hadn't been mistreated. Then they didn't hear from him after April 9. news.yahoo.com