RW talk radio: Berg was in cahoots with Zacharias Massoui!!

[AgentLadyBug]

I'm damn certain I did a total butcher job on the name.....

But was in the car listening to local (seattle) rw-radio, and they were talking about how Berg met Zach in college, and shared his email address with him, and how "interesting" it was that Berg ends up in Iraq soon after...... they even got to the point of saying that Berg had switched over to al-quaeda's side, was promised 100 virgins in heaven for his sacrifice, or some such thing....

christ - it's amazing how much repubs absolutely hate america....

[mrgorth]

1. This is their revenge

for Nick's dad not playing nice.

[Alex88]

2. Don't ask me

Bizarre New Link In Berg Murder

CBS/AP) As the family of slain American Nicholas Berg gathered Friday for a private memorial service, new details emerged about his contact with FBI terrorism investigators after Sept. 11, as well as his final days in Iraq.

Berg, a 26-year-old small businessman who went to Iraq seeking a role in reconstruction, was found dead Saturday. On Tuesday, an Islamic Web site posted video in which masked militants beheaded him. The CIA has identified the speaker in the video — the man who murdered Berg — as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a terrorist suspected in numerous attacks in Iraq.

CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin reports U.S. officials say the FBI questioned Berg in 2002 after a computer password Berg used in college turned up in the possession of Zacarias Moussaoui, the al Qaeda operative arrested shortly before Sept. 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.
-snip-

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/11/iraq/main616842.shtml

[linazelle]

3. They kill me with this stuff...first it was the hijackers minutes after

the towers fell, now they've positively ID'd the "militants" who but Bergs head off.

The CIA has identified the speaker in the video — the man who murdered Berg — as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a terrorist suspected in numerous attacks in Iraq.

How the hell do they confirm the identity of a masked man? (Spare me the voice print ID explanation.)

[treepig]

4. but, strangely enough, the search for the anthrax assassins

is badly lagging for some reason.

:freak:

[tom_paine]

10. And the Plame Leaker

Just a coinkydink, I'm sure.

[camero]

5. One problem with that

Zarqawi has supposedly been dead since March in a bombing raid.

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1815

According to an AP report: “Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in the Sulaimaniyah mountains of northern Iraq "during the American bombing there," according to the eight-page leaflet circulated this week in Fallujah, a city 30 miles west of Baghdad that is a hotbed of anti-U.S. insurgency acts(3)

Leaflet Says Extremist Al-Zarqawi Killed
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29777-2004Mar4.html
ivity.”(3)


Can the dead kill?

[Bjornsdotter]

8. Yep....I was amazed!

Hi,

I also have news reports of Al-Zarqawi being dead.

It's amazing what the dead are capable of doing.

Cheers,
Kim

[camero]

9. Isn't it?

This case gets more bizarre everyday.

Welcome to DU. :toast:

[trapper914]

6. The Right Should Be Careful What They Ask For...

...they wanted more coverage of Nick Berg. They got it. Michael Berg going off on Bush, and some suspicious coincidences that may make Berg seem less like an innocent victim of random terror.

It's funny to me how the right seems to think the media is purposely avoiding airing the video. Do they really think a snuf video is going to save Bush's bacon?

[robbedvoter]

7. Big article in Daily News on this; Ashcroft declared: "not true"

Berg, Al Qaeda linked before

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/193331p-166984c.html

By JAMES GORDON MEEK in Washington
and TRACY CONNOR in New York
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS


Zacarias Moussaoui

Berg
In a bizarre coincidence, Nick Berg crossed paths with Al Qaeda years before its henchmen beheaded him, when his E-mail and password wound up in the hands of 9/11 suspect Zacarias Moussaoui.

It happened in 1999, when Berg was at the University of Oklahoma and Moussaoui was enrolled at a nearby flight school, allegedly training to be an Al Qaeda hijacker.

After Moussaoui came under scrutiny in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, the FBI discovered he had Berg's university E-mail password.

"In 2002, the FBI was following millions of leads in the wake of 9/11, and one led to Mr. Berg," said a senior Justice Department official.

After questioning Berg about the tie, the feds concluded he had never actually met Moussaoui, who had friends and roommates at the same college.

The matter remained closed until Berg's ill-fated visit to Iraq this year.

When he was detained by authorities in Mosul in March, FBI agents came to grill Berg, and he volunteered details about his previous dealings with the bureau, the official said.

But the eerie link between Berg and the terrorist cabal that later decapitated him "turned out to be total coincidence," the official said.

U.S. intelligence officials have confirmed their suspicions that it is Al Qaeda associate Abu Musab al-Zarqawi who is seen killing Berg on the shocking videotape.

Using voice analysis, they determined that Zarqawi - a one-legged mystery man with a $10 million bounty on his head - was the hooded figure who wielded the knife.

B

[Octafish]

11. Why would one of the world's most wanted terrorists move to Iraq?

Wouldn't the so-and-so prefer to hide somewhere where there weren't so many good guys looking for him?

Just asking.