Odd Connection between Free Republic, Terrorism and Nick Berg....

styersc

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Sat Aug-21-04 09:29 PM
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Odd Connection between Free Republic, Terrorism and Nick Berg....

I know that we all sort of snickered when FR received heat in the press when, after Nick Berg's murder, it was found that Freepers had placed Berg's father and their family business on an enemies list. Rumors even circulated that their placement on this list had resulted
in Berg's detention in Iraq, resulting in his delayed exit and indirectly his murder.

But the "coincidences" grow even stranger. A piece in a Philadelphia newspaper states that the last American to speak to Berg before his capture and murder by terrorists was an Iraqui-American named Aziz al Taree. Berg told him that he was trying to get out of the country. Berg had discussed al Taree with his family, telling them that al Taree was going to be his partner in business in Iraq and that they had rented office space together to do business out of Baghdad.

This same al Taree is a freeper who was the keynote speaker at several rallies. He is particularly friendly with "kristin", leader of the DC Freeper Chapter (Goons). I saw him speak at the Jan 18, 2003 rally in DC (Called "Rally for America" but which was actually the Rally for Hating Peace Loving Americans- held on the same day as ANSWER's very successful anti-war rally). This same shadowy Iraqi was also the keynote and special invitee of Freeper- kristin- at a March freeper rally.

The tin hat crowd should be twitching at all of the coincidences. Given the hard time that peace activists have in boarding airplanes, it makes one wonder how FR is not under investigation by the authorities?

Just a little something to chew on.

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Fleshdancer

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Sat Aug-21-04 09:33 PM
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1. I'm very interested in the interview footage Moore has of Berg

This whole situation was weird. A freeper connection is creepy.

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Beam Me Up

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Sat Aug-21-04 09:43 PM
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2. I Book Marked several DU Berg Threads. Here ya go:

Edited on Sat Aug-21-04 09:56 PM by beam_me_up

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styersc

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Sat Aug-21-04 10:00 PM
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4. Thanks for all of the threads.

It certainly is an odd story.

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eaprez

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Sat Aug-21-04 09:51 PM
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3. I can't in my wildest dreams imagine freepers embracing a brown man!

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styersc

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Sat Aug-21-04 10:01 PM
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6. They pick and choose their hatreds.

Remember, this is the side of the ideological fence that raised Chalabi up as a saviour and took his word to run us to war.

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Beam Me Up

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Sat Aug-21-04 10:01 PM
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5. Here's a Picture of him at FR rally

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styersc

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Sat Aug-21-04 10:04 PM
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7. Bigotry and intolerance make strange bedfellows.

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Beam Me Up

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Sat Aug-21-04 10:12 PM
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9. Not if you've gone through the Paranoid Shift

This link will take you to the essay -- doesn't have anything DIRECTLY to do w/ Berg:
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/011004Hasty/011004hasty.html

The point being that Berg either was an agent or was being used by agents. I tend to the former rather than the latter. If you read the DU threads above, it is most interesting, don't you think, that Berg "just happened" to have met the "9/11 20th hijacker" Zacarias Moussaoui -- get to Iraq and then get beheaded. This event was a signal from one group to another IMO.

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Sat Aug-21-04 10:06 PM
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8. Here's a link to where that picture came from:

http://community.webshots.com/album/61282220TUvbWW

You'll find it in the thumb nails on page 4, I think.

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styersc

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Sat Aug-21-04 10:15 PM
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10. At that same rally...

...the Freeper "Kristin" led the Pledge of Allegiance, but he recited it incorrectly. He skipped "indivisible" in "one nation, indivisible". I have often wondered if this was on purpose as a divided nation is exactly what they seek.

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GoneOffShore

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Sat Aug-21-04 10:24 PM
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11. Who are these people

Edited on Sat Aug-21-04 10:25 PM by GoneOffShore

And if they really are patriotic, freedom loving Americans, why is there only one black face amongst them? Wouldn't one expect that if they truly believe in the principles of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution they would be more inclusive?
Oh, that's right, they're Freepers. They hate both of those documents. And what they stand for.

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styersc

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Sun Aug-22-04 11:33 AM
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12. The real question is how many more terrorists are they in bed with.

The Bush admin took us to war in order to install Chalabi- (fortunately pressure from our side uncovered and unseated this thug). FR is run by people in bed with Aziz al Taree- the last person to hear from Nick Berg, only after they put Berg on an "enemies list". Bush's intelligence wing captures Berg and "sets him free" in hostile Iraq, only for him to be captured and murdered.

The folks who should be looking in to this are the same folks who can't enforce the law in the Plame case. They investigate and enforce very selectively.

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