Here are the facts of the Nick Berg story

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http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0514BergInIraq14-ON.html

Here are the relevant facts we should be discussing instead of the actual act of beheading:

- He is said to have been in Mosul prison by Iraqis for 13 days
- His parents filed in District Court that the US Military had illegally detained their son.
- He was interrogated several times by the FBI
- It is unclear the intentions, events and result of those interrogations
- Prisoners held in Iraqi jails are sometimes tortured, abuse or sexually humiliated.
- He was a Jew in an environment of incredible hatred and suspicion of Jews
- In the prison, he is vulnerable to some seedy characters, if there are some
- One alleged witness says he mentions he was picked up for his Israeli stamp on his passport
- It is still unclear official why he was detained for so long
- He allegedly left the hotel on April 10 leaving behind books, weights and a business-card wallet.
- His favorite shirt was blue and white checkered.
- He had short hair and looked like a GI
- He probably didn't shave for 13 days in prison.
- He didn't return to his known looks in the 4 days after his release.
- He is murdered in what appears to be a prison jump suit.
- He may not have changed his prison clothes in the 4 days after his release
- If he did change clothes before capture, the his captors gave him a well fitting orange silk prison suit to wear.
- His body was discovered hanging from a highway overpass.

What I see is:

He was probably picked up for suspicion of being some type of spy.
We already have a suggestion that standard policy is to torture people to soften them up. Then we have the scandal break and we have this guy coming back to the US who may have been directly exposed to the same things that were going on in Abu Ghraib. At the same time, support for the war is taking a massive hit day after day in the media. Is it possible that Berg never really was released and he was silenced and used to fuel the war and distract from the terror scandal?