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« on: June 02, 2004, 12:41:44 AM »

The Murder Of Nicholas Berg was an inside job! That's right! The warmongers continue to lie to the World. Bush, Cheney and the Military Industrial complex masterminded this scenario, just like they masterminded this modern Crusade against Muslims in this phony "Amerikkka War on Terror" to profit from the situation in the millions of dollars. The Bush/Cheney Oil Company get super rich in the rip off of Iraq while the stupid Americans get to "feel" patriotic. This is what happens to blind followers aka Pro-Fox News morons!!!

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The Politics Of Diversion: The Murder Of Nick Berg
By Paul Howard,  May 28, 2004

The liars in the Bush Administration are in another big mess, and their official explanations of various events continue to unravel on the world stage.

From the farce that was 911 to the capturing, imprisonment and subsequent release of Afghani goat herders in Guantanamo Bay - while Bin Laden and his lieutenants were "escorted" to safety into Pakistan by their handlers, the CIA - the lies just get deeper.

There were no ties between Hussein and Bin Laden (mortal enemies).

There are no weapons of Mass Destruction, despite the Bush Administration's obvious attempts to plant them.

The U.S. removed Saddam's regime only put the same generals in charge in Fallujah.

The U.S. "liberated" the country by rounding up and torturing civilians. Rumsfeld went before Congress on Wednesday, May 12, 2004 and said the Iraqi women who were raped, the children who were beaten and the 90% of all detainees who had to be released after torture were all "terrorists" - and that the Geneva Convention and rules of war do not apply to raping and torturing because these "terrorists" do not belong to an Army.

Everything was going South - and deservedly so - and the Bush Administration needed help.

Enter poor Nick Berg.

Nick Berg was a telecommunications contractor who went into Iraq to "help." But he and his family were not unknown to U.S. authorities.

On March 7, 2004, an 'enemies' list of anti-war groups and individuals was posted on the Free Republic.

Among those listed was this entry:

"Michael S. Berg, Teacher, Prometheus Methods Tower Service, Inc."
That's Nick Berg's father, Michael, who acts as business manager for his son in their family radio communications firm, Prometheus Methods Tower Service.

Just days after Michael Berg and Prometheus Methods Tower Service had come up on that Iraq war 'enemies' list, his son Nick Berg returned to Iraq under the business name of Prometheus Methods Tower Service.

Nick was detained, first by Iraqi police, then for 13 days by the United States military in Iraq. He was in U.S. custody and admittedly questioned by the FBI 3 separate times. They would not release him, press charges or let him speak to an attorney.

He was a "terrorist sympathizer," and was detained in a U.S. orange jumpsuit (like those in Guantanamo) and put in a cell with Syrians and Iraqis.

Yet the U.S. now claims Nick Berg was NEVER in U.S. custody. Oh really?

To back its claims that Berg was in U.S. custody, the family gave The Associated Press copies of e-mails from Beth A. Payne, the U.S. consular officer in Iraq.

"I have confirmed that your son, Nick, is being detained by the U.S. military in Mosul. He is safe. He was picked up approximately one week ago. We will try to obtain additional information regarding his detention and a contact person you can communicate with directly," Payne wrote to Berg's father, Michael, on April 1. Payne repeated that Berg was "being detained by the U.S. military" in an e-mail the same day to Berg's mother, Suzanne.

Frustrated by their inability to find out about their son's whereabouts, The Berg's filed a lawsuit in federal court in Philadelphia on April 5 asserting that their son was being held by the American military in violation of his civil rights.

"His parents contacted our office, the F.B.I., and the State Department," said Representative Jim Gerlach, a Republican from Upper Uwchlan Township in Pennsylvania.

Representative Gerlach met with the Berg family on Tuesday. "They got very insufficient information," he said. "They felt that they were not getting full answers."

Nick Berg's father, Michael Berg was publicly furious, "I think a lot of people are fed up with the lack of civil rights this thing has caused," he said. "I don't think this administration is committed to democracy."

The Berg's filed a lawsuit in federal court in Philadelphia on April 5. A day later, Nick Berg was released. He contacted his parents and told them that he was coming home. The following day he checked out of his hotel in Baghdad, and disappeared.

At the height of the U.S. torture scandal, Nick Berg's body was "discovered" on Saturday May 8, having reportedly been decapitated the same day by muslim radicals, specifically Al Qaeda.

And, almost miraculously, a video appeared worldwide showing "Al-Qaeda" in possession of Mr. Berg (somehow still wearing his orange jumpsuit) at which time he is supposedly beheaded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ­ whom Americans claim is Al-Qaeda's lead man in Iraq. Not only does Al-Qaeda record the video, but Zarqawi's name and "signature" appear on it.

Convenient? Oh, and how.

Yet there are many problems with this explanation.

Long ago, when trying to tie Al-Qaeda with Iraq, Colin Powell claimed that Zarqawi was fitted with a prosthetic leg in a Baghdad hospital (which, at the time, was touted as being a major indication of a connection between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein).

Yet the killer in the video walks and moves around with both legs just fine. Zarqawi could not be the killer. So why would all the killers wear hoods to hide their identity, and then sign the video with their own name and call themselves Al-Qaeda?

It never happened. As reported both by the London Telegraph and CNN (CNN Transcript) :

O'BRIEN: Interesting. All right, now one final thought here. You did a very careful translation of your own, of the statement. And in it, you see no reference to al Qaeda. And yet the official U.S. government translation does. Explain how that happened.

NASR: Oh, I find it very interesting, because out of the blue, there is a mention of al Qaeda on the U.S. government translation. It says: "Does al Qaeda need any further excuses?" Any speaker of the Arabic language is going to notice a difference between the word al Qaeda, which means "the base," and al qaed, which means "the one sitting, doing nothing."
My translation says: "Is there any excuse for the one who sits down and does nothing?" Basically they're telling people, you have no excuse for not doing anything, for not acting and defending Islam and so forth. Whereas the U.S. government translation adds al Qaeda to the statement, which is not on the statement.

But it gets much, much worse.

The Berg video is a montage of two separate videos taken from two cameras. This is apparent from the time in the lower right-hand corner, which changes as the angle of the shot changes.

Notice on the right that Berg's head has been cut off at 13:47:49 (1:47) ­ yet on the picture on the left, at 2:44 and nearly an hour later, he is sitting with his head intact!

In the video shown all over the world, the man in the middle (wearing all black) is the one who beheads Mr. Berg, but when the head is held up, the head-holder suddenly changes to the man in the white mask.

Additionally, the audio is 7 seconds off from the video.

So what, you say?

Well, let's see. An American who was considered an enemy of the U.S. war was suddenly taken prisoner in Iraq, which the U.S. denies, until his family produced e-mails from the U.S. office in Iraq and sued, causing his release - even though he supposedly was never detained.

Then Berg disappeared ­ and resurfaced only as the U.S. was in dire need of an incident to try to divert attention from the coverage of U.S.-sanctioned torture in Iraq.

Here we had Berg, a U.S. enemy-of-the-state, ending up in the leadership of Al Qaeda's hands - ­ who signed a video saying he killed him - even though the guy who supposedly killed him has a prosthetic leg and the guy in the video clearly doesn't.

And after Al Qaeda refutes the claim that is was them, the U.S. intentionally doctored the transcripts of the video's audio.

Why would a guy in U.S. custody for weeks, after being released for a day and getting ready to go home, not take off the damned orange prison jumpsuit?

Why do the hooded "Al Qaeda" fighters appear so white? Muslims say the accents are not middle eastern at all.

Go back up and look at the "group of 5" Arab Terrorists. Does their look, body language and white skin say Arab - or U.S. military dressed in terrorist garb?

The only plausible explanation is that the U.S. executed Nick Berg.

NBC news (Andrea Mitchell) reported on May 6 that special operations forces, including both Delta Force and Navy SEALs, were also involved in abusing prisoners in Iraq.
In order to cover themselves, the government has released information that Nick Berg was investigated during the 09/11 investigation for having ties to Zacharias Moussaoui. Supposedly, Moussaoui was using Berg's email address.

The lies will keep coming from this administration until the people put a stop to it.


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