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To: NickSE who wrote (44231)	5/13/2004 7:04:36 PM
From: NickSE	Respond to of 793916

Interesting details coming out re: Nick Berg... CIA: Al-Zarqawi Decapitated Berg; Family E-Mails Quote U.S. Official as Saying Berg Was in U.S. Custody ap.tbo.com .....The FBI visited Berg three times before he was released April 6, according to a senior FBI official. The agents told him Iraq was too dangerous for unprotected American civilians. Berg wrote to his parents after his release that federal agents had questioned him about whether he had ever built a pipe bomb or had been in Iran. Berg's family members have called on the government to tell all it knows about its contacts with the 26-year-old and have blamed U.S. authorities for detaining him in Iraq until the anti-American violence worsened. Berg had caught the FBI's attention before. Speaking to reporters outside his West Chester, Pa., home Thursday, Berg's father, Michael, said his son was investigated by the FBI more than a year ago over contact he had with a terrorism suspect while he was a student at the University of Oklahoma. Berg's father said his son was dragged into that investigation because he allowed an acquaintance he rode the bus with to use his computer. In what may be Berg's last contact before his kidnapping, he checked out of Baghdad's shabby Fanar Hotel on April 10 around 7 a.m., according to the receptionist. American businessman Andrew Robert Duke and the staff there said he left some of his belongings in storage, with plans to return. "Inshallah (God willing), I will be back in a few days," the receptionist said Berg told her. A porter watched him walk down the street with his bags..... more... cbsnews.com .....But CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin reports on what is turning into a bizarre mystery with a connection to 9/11. U.S. officials say the FBI questioned Berg in 2002 after a computer password Berg used in college turned up in the possession of Zaccarias Moussaoui, the al Qaeda operative arrested shortly before 9/11 for his suspicious activity at a flight school in Minnesota. The bureau had already dismissed the connection between Berg and Moussaoui as nothing more than a college student who had been careless about protecting his password. But in the wake of Berg's gruesome murder, it becomes a stranger than fiction coincidence -- an American who inadvertently gave away his computer password to one notorious al Qaeda operative is later murdered by another notorious al Qaeda operative.....