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

[jordangreywolf.livejournal.com]

The "inconsistencies" are news to me. Can you point me to some of the discussion that spurred this?

[zaimoni.livejournal.com]

I don't know about Nick Berg specifically. At least one of the U.S. hostage beheadings was fake enough to get the "dead" man prosecuted under some obscure Federal charge.

Nothing was resolved

[garyamort.livejournal.com]

To my knowledge, nothing was ever resolved.

There were inconsitencies, but then in anything there will be inconsitencies, when everything fits together neatly is when I tend to be most suspicious.

And a lot of the comments seemed to be paranoid delusions to me, the big "proof" seemed to be People from Middle Eastern cultures believe that Middle Eastern people were not involved in this video, based on the mannerisms, accents, behavior and appearance of the killers. A close inspection of the video suggests that Westerners may have been involved.

The problem is, people ALWAYS say this.

When looters were roaming one of the cities and stealing from the hospitals, the residents of the city were insisting that the looters must be from outside the city.

When the prison scandal was first reported, everyone said how it must have only been a few people - and residents from the towns the guilty people came from still refuse to beleive they did anything wrong.

It's always an 'outsider' who does something horrible, not an insider.

So as long as the major piece of evidence is based on avoiding taking responsibility, however remotely, this story goes no where for me.