Resolution

[rowyn]

I was thinking, earlier today, about Nick Berg's death. As the news of his murder was first circulating, some of my LJ friends were pointing at things in the video, or in the events leading up to his death, that appeared inconsistent with the story presented in the video: that he'd been kidnapped and executed by Muslim terrorists while the videotape was rolling.

And I was wondering: did anything more ever come of that? Was a hypothesis advanced that explained the apparent inconsistencies? Were the concerns of armchair bloggers refuted by mainstream sources or official channels? Does anyone here know?

[Edit: Here's an example of the inconsistencies that were being discussed at the time.]

Comments

Re: Nothing was resolved

[level-head.livejournal.com]

Looking around, I found that hundreds of references to the "right wing enemies list" were in fact ultimately pointed at this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1092851/posts

It is, instead, a list of signers to a petition for International A.N.S.W.E.R. regarding a then-upcoming anti-war protest. In other words, rather than being gathered by "right wing" forces, these were people and companies who voluntarily added their names.

Perhaps not all of them realized that the organziation explicity supports the Iraqi insurgents, and calls for the failure of the US military there. But in any event, the list has been misportrayed. And the list does indeed show the name of the company Nick Berg's father had at his home -- and that the father was an officer of.

I suspect that the son would be annoyed, but I do not know what their arrangements were.

If the appearance of the name on this list got Nick Berg killed, it should be noted that the name was put there by his own father.

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Re: Nothing was resolved

[garyamort.livejournal.com]

I respectfully disagree with your premes(plural of premis?) and your conclusion.

Oh, and for future reference, it's just Gary. I'm too boring for cool nicknames, so my LJ handle is simply my name.

Re: Nothing was resolved

[level-head.livejournal.com]

Which premise? Which conclusion?

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Which one? All of them. :-)

[garyamort.livejournal.com]

Seriously though, just about everything in your post I disagree with your view of.

I know, it's a bit rude not to go into details. But the subject has drifted off the main topic(did anything get resolved regarding Nick Berg) and since this is in someone else's 'house' so to speak, I think it would be kind of rude to fill up her semi-private journal with debate over the side issues.

Re: Which one? All of them. :-)

[level-head.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it can be said that such resolution (of the Nick Berg video questions) was reached with by dint of the same scene being repeated by a far-too-large number of performances by the same actors upon other hapless hostages.

And without FreeRepublic comments on their fathers, even. ];-)

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