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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wayners who wrote (23286)	5/16/2004 9:53:11 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to 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. indymedia.org.uk

To: Wayners who wrote (23286)	5/16/2004 9:57:13 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

I think AQ is wrong. I think we are wrong. You seem upset about them killing one poor misguided guy. That's valid. What about the 17,000 Iraqis we've killed by invading a country we didn't need to? How many Iraqis is one American worth? How many Americans have to die before we admit Iraq's government is not our business.

To: Wayners who wrote (23286)	5/16/2004 10:01:20 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 81568

What if Berg was an Al Qaida operative? After all he did share his email address and password with the 29th hijacker? Is that just a weird coincidence? Still feel outraged that he was beheaded? And if he was another Taliban Johnny, then who really killed him? Which side? Of which faction within which side? Five guys with masks in a fuzzy video doesn't prove anything especially with all the jump cuts and suspicious details. Why was Berg in a US prison issue type jumpsuit? Why was he so calm and relaxed before he was killed? very very murky and suspicious.