Beheading of Nick Berg

"There is another strange matter to this situation that troubles me. Why was
Mr. Berg picked up by coalition forces and imprisoned, so much so that his
family sued Donald Rumsfeld for his release and information on him. The
military says it released him, but suddenly then, he disappeared becausse
when people went to see him at the hotel he was allegedly registered at, he
wasn't there and no one there knew of him. Very strange point number two is,
why was Mr. Berg in an American issued orange jump suit--the kind Americans
put prisoners in, when he was photographed and killed? The Iraqis or other
Arabs would have had him in Arab clothing so as not to draw suspicion to him
of his being a prisoner--not an orange jump suit. Also, the way the men were
standing, and their size, as a person experienced in the middle east, most
Arabs don't stand that way and most Iraqis are not that tall--the men stand
more like Westerners of some sort, or even Israelis, but not like Arabs or
Iraqis."

"But, it may also be that this was perpetrated by Israeli agents, who have
been operating in Iraq since the American invasion and have been advisors
and combatants for Blackwater, and for the U.S. military, especially in
interrogation techniques. I do not know if it was Israelis, but I do
remember in the early 1980s when the Mossad of Israel shot Israel's own
ambassador to London to help justify the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. You
may recall the general who led the brutal assault was none other than Ariel
Sharon; the present brutal prime minister of Israel.

We must also ask the question intelligence agencies use, "Who would most
benefit from this act?" In this case, if not Israel, then Bush and America
to take the heat off of America for the brutality of the torture in Iraq and
Guantanamo. This terrible act also took a lot of pressure off the U.S. Thus,
it is also possible, since the killers were hooded, and thus we can't know
who they were, that it could have been American counter-insurgency agents,
CIA or mercenaries who did this heinous at a time when the glare of anger
toward the U.S. was growing in the world. I don't know that this is true,
but having worked in intelligence situations, I know it has been done in the
past. Remember, also that the Nazis blew up the Bundestag to blame it on the
Jews and others who they wanted to punish. America also used the boiler
explosion on the U.S.S. Maine as a pretext for the Spanish American War by
blaming it on Spain (even though it our intelligence knew it was simply a
result of the boiler blowing up).

We pushed into Viet Nam after our false report of the attack on one of our
ships in the Bay of Tonkin. Our nation has not always been lilly-white in
matters of truth when we wanted to take an action--we found ways to justify
matters, or to lie to our advantage. We even allowed our own navy men to be
killed on the U.S. S. Liberty in order to allow the Israelis freedom to do a
sneak attack on Egypt --not allowing our own airplanes to go to the rescue
of the Liberty when Israeli planes and torpedo boats were attacking it. To
this dayh, the U.S. government has not allowed the Liberty case to be
opened, or the men to be compensated, even though Admirals and others have
asked for an open naval inquiry as to what happened and why President
Johnson or someone in the Pentagon called back American planes that were
going to the rescue of the Liberty. Israel has never been reprimanded for
the attack, though clearly the ship had American flags, gave American
signals and did not look like any Egyptian or Arab vessels. Unfortunately,
our hands have been dirty before; it is possible they have dirtied
themselves again for the sake of Bush's policies in the "war on terror"--and
what better way than to turn the spotlight on the victims and make them
"terrorists" through such an act. There are just too many
questions here, to many odd things about this savage act."

WEST CHESTER, Pa. - Nicholas Berg, the 26-year-old American who was beheaded on videotape by Iraqi militants, was buried Friday morning in a private ceremony.

A memorial service for family and friends, also private, was held later Friday afternoon.
“They’re in a state of shock,” said Bruce Hauser, a spokesman for the family. “You walk in and look at [Suzanne Berg, Berg’s mother], and she doesn’t even look like herself.”

Berg, who owned a small communications firm, was buried in a family plot at Montefiore Cemetery in Jenkintown, Chester County Commissioner Andrew Dinniman said.

The family appealed to curiosity seekers and media to stay away from the day’s events. The sheriff’s department used hand-held metal detectors to screen visitors at the the memorial, and police said that, if necessary, they would arrest outsiders who tried to attend.