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: Technocolor!

[level-head.livejournal.com]

I understand what you're saying -- but I do not see the cover up happening at the "Freeper" site you mentioned. I'd expect that opponents of that site would be delighted to post that a thread was removed, and I've seen no evidence of this.

Your last point I would certainly concur with -- Berg was in the wrong place at the wrong time. An unescorted American Jew wandering the streets of Iraq on his own -- particularly the city he went into -- is a tragedy waiting to happen.

Here is a timeline, turned up by Google just now and with links that largely still work.

Nick Berg's father still insists that he was held by the US. An aquaintence says he was told that by Nick Berg himself. But the email that the family received from Nick, supposedly saying this, they will not release. Curious.

I'm inclined to think he was detained for being a lone civilian American trying to get into a troubled Iraqi city under peculiar circumstances.

But the "enemies list" -- the list of people on the side of the terrorists -- would hardly condemn Nick Berg. If anything, it would encourage the terrorists to treat him well.

Conspiracies are fun, though. ];-)

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