Berg Time Line

[Robbien]

• Dec. 21. Nicholas Berg goes to Iraq to explore business opportunities.

• Feb. 1. After making contact with a company that indicates there likely will be work for him, Berg leaves Iraq.

• March 14. Berg returns to Iraq.

• March 24. Berg tells his parents he is coming home on March 30 to be in a friend's wedding. The same day, he is detained by Iraqi police at a Mosul checkpoint. At some point during his 13-day detention, U.S. officials take custody of him.

• March 30. Berg's father, Michael, goes to John F. Kennedy International Airport, but Berg is not on his scheduled flight.

• March 31. In West Chester, the FBI interviews Michael and Suzanne Berg. A spokesman said the agency was "asked to interview the parents regarding Mr. Berg's purpose in Iraq."

• April 5. The Bergs file suit in federal court in Philadelphia, contending that their son was being held illegally by the U.S. military in Iraq.

• April 6. Nicholas Berg is released.

• April 9. Berg communicates for the last time with his parents, telling them he will come home through Jordan.

• Saturday. Berg's decapitated body is found near a highway in Baghdad.

• Monday. State Department officials notify the Berg family of his death.

• Yesterday. Berg's death is announced.

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[teryang]

1. Unbelievable!

Truth is stranger than fiction. Initially subjected to the coercive powers of the Bush regime, who's hand is forced by the courts and due process of law, the man is brutually murdered by "terrorists."

Very suspicious chain of events.

[Neecy]

2. hmmmm

But did you see the 'coalition' briefing this morning? They pretty much stated that Berg was in the custody of the Iraqi police the whole time, and that the FBI 'visited' him while he was in Iraqi custody three times for questioning.

This is a major discrepancy, since the reporting yesterday indicated that he was in the custody of the US military at the time of his release.

[Timefortruth]

3. Then how did the parent's lawsuit free him?

And what is the difference between the Iraqi police and the Americans? It is not as if they even pretend that there is sovereignty yet.

[Neecy]

4. good question

It's as if the military is washing their hands of involvement in the case by foisting his detention in Iraq on the Iraqi police.

Why not? They know the media won't point out the obvious, that it was our own military who had him in custody. Might cause some criticism of the administration, y'know.

[Lex]

5. Didn't Nick Berg himself indicate to his parents

that he had been held by Coalition forces. He did call home at some point and confrmed that, right? On that April 6th phone call to his parents.

Didn't the FBI pay his parents a visit and indicate Berg was in Coalition custody, which is what led them to file the lawsuit saying he was being illegally held by them?

WTF?

[Neecy]

6. dunno

But that little White House goon who's over there (his name escapes me - he's the one with the close-clipped dark hair, looks sort of fascist) was pretty precise that Berg was *always* in the custody of the Iraqi police. Now, I'm suspicious. The lies and spinning are too obvious.

[Lex]

7. I bet Berg's parents will be happy to set

the record straight on what they were told by their son and the FBI.

Now they have to fight disinformation by the White House in addition to grieving for their son. Sad.

[keithyboy]

8. Iraqi police = US coalition. These Iraqi polilce are not Al-qaeda!

Everyone, get a grip. This shit stinks to high heaven.
Where are the investigative journalists?
Orange jumpsuit, yellow walls, sneakers, last known to be the hands of Iraqi (US-trained) police? Beheaded slowly? Islamists would do this 'slowly' As a punishment it would swift and certain. The voice, according to experts was NOT Zawkari's, the accent was wrong? WTF is going on? Who really are the 'terrorists?' If an Al-qaeda message comes from Afghanistan (from where they usually come, not Iraq) and says that they were not responsible for this beheading...we need to bring the soldiers home immediately. This would mean that we don't know who we are fighting and we don't know who really is pulling the strings of the Bush puppet.

[the_real_38]

9. But it's all conspiracy theory, right?

These are just isolated incidents, I guess.