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Video Shows Beheading of American in Iraq - WickedKizzy - 05-12-2004
BAGHDAD, Iraq (May 11) -- A video posted Tuesday on an Islamic militant Web site showed the beheading of an American civilian in Iraq, and said the execution was carried out by an al-Qaida affiliated group to avenge the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers.
The video showed five men wearing headscarves and black ski masks, standing over a bound man in an orange jumpsuit - similar to a prisoner's uniform - who identified himself as Nick Berg, a U.S. contractor whose body was found on a highway overpass in Baghdad on Saturday.
''My name is Nick Berg, my father's name is Michael, my mother's name is Susan,'' the man said on the video. ''I have a brother and sister, David and Sarah. I live in ... Philadelphia.''
After reading a statement, the men were seen pulling the man to his side and putting a large knife to his neck. A scream sounded as the men cut his head off, shouting ''Allahu Akbar!'' - ''God is great.'' They then held the head out before the camera.
Berg's family said Tuesday they knew their son had been decapitated, but didn't know the details of the killing. When told of the video by an Associated Press reporter, Berg's father, Michael, and his two siblings hugged and cried.
''I knew he was decapitated before. That manner is preferable to a long and torturous death. But I didn't want it to become public,'' Michael Berg said.
On the Web site, one of the executioners read a statement:
''For the mothers and wives of American soldiers, we tell you that we offered the U.S. administration to exchange this hostage with some of the detainees in Abu Ghraib and they refused.''
''So we tell you that the dignity of the Muslim men and women in Abu Ghraib and others is not redeemed except by blood and souls. You will not receive anything from us but coffins after coffins ... slaughtered in this way.''
The video bore the title ''Abu Musab al-Zarqawi shown slaughtering an American.'' It was unclear whether al-Zarqawi - a lieutenant of Osama bin Laden - was shown in the video, or was claiming responsibility for ordering the execution.
The Web site on which the video was posted is known as a clearing house for al-Qaida and Islamic extremist groups' statements and tapes. An audiotape purportedly from bin Laden - which the CIA said was probably authentic - appeared on the same Web site last week.
Western officials say al-Zarqawi, whose real name is Ahmad Fadhil al-Khalayleh, is a lieutenant of bin Laden. The United States has offered $10 million for information leading to the capture or killing of al-Zarqawi, saying he is trying to build a network of foreign militants in Iraq to work for al-Qaida.
In the video, the speaker threatened both President Bush and Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf.
''As for you Bush ... expect severe days. You and your soldiers will regret the day you stepped into the land of Iraq,'' he said. He described Musharraf as ''a traitor agent.''
The slaying recalled the kidnapping and videotaped beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002 in Pakistan. Four Islamic militants have been convicted of kidnapping Pearl, but seven other suspects - including those who allegedly slit his throat - remain at large.
Suzanne Berg, the mother of the 26-year-old Berg, of West Chester, Pa., said her son was in Iraq as an independent businessman to help rebuild communication antennas. He had been missing since April 9, she said.
''He had this idea that he could help rebuild the infrastructure,'' she said.
The U.S. military Tuesday said an American civilian was found dead in Baghdad, but did not release his identity. State Department spokeswoman Susan Pittman said she couldn't release the name of the dead American, but said she not aware of more than one civilian found dead in recent days.
The military said there were signs of trauma to the body. Suzanne Berg said she was told her son's death was violent but did not want to discuss details.
Berg, who was in Baghdad from late December to Feb. 1, returned to Iraq in March. He didn't find any work and planned again to return home on March 30, but his daily communications home stopped on March 24. He later told his parents he was jailed by Iraqi officials at a checkpoint in Mosul.
''He was arrested and held without due process,'' his father, Michael Berg, told the Daily Local News of West Chester recently. ''By the time he got out the whole area was inflamed with violence.
The FBI on March 31 interviewed Berg's parents in West Chester. Jerri Williams, a spokeswoman for the Philadelphia FBI office, told The Philadelphia Inquirer the agency had been ''asked to interview the parents regarding Mr. Berg's purpose in Iraq.''
On April 5, the Bergs filed suit in federal court in Philadelphia, contending that their son was being held illegally by the U.S. military. The next day Berg was released. He told his parents he hadn't been mistreated.
The Bergs last heard from their son April 9, when he said he would come home by way of Jordan, Turkey or Kuwait. But by then, hostilities in Iraq had escalated.
Suzanne Berg on Tuesday said she was told her son's body would be transported to Kuwait and then to Dover, Del. She said the family had been trying for weeks to learn where their son was but that federal officials had not been helpful.
''I went through this with them for weeks,'' she said. ''I basically ended up doing most of the investigating myself.''
Video Shows Beheading of American in Iraq - Undeadcannibal - 05-12-2004
Sucks....But those pictures were awful.
Video Shows Beheading of American in Iraq - WickedKizzy - 05-12-2004
Yeah they were.
Video Shows Beheading of American in Iraq - Devious - 05-12-2004
Where are they?
Video Shows Beheading of American in Iraq - Velvet - 05-12-2004
I feel sorry for his family and sadly he wont be the last it happens to now . It only going to get worse . God help them all .
Video Shows Beheading of American in Iraq - Undeadcannibal - 05-12-2004
I dunno I saw em on the news. look at cnn.com or something. It makes me regret being an American even more.
Video Shows Beheading of American in Iraq - Velvet - 05-12-2004
You's shouldnt feel that way Undead you's cant feel bad when its just a few who are like that .
Video Shows Beheading of American in Iraq - Undeadcannibal - 05-12-2004
I guess...but the fact that Donald Trump kept his job even though he knew about it for quite a while, It just makes the bile rise in the back of my throat....
Video Shows Beheading of American in Iraq - Devious - 05-12-2004
Quote:Originally posted by Undeadcannibal@May 11 2004, 08:02 PMTrump? I think you mean Donald Rumsfeld.
I guess...but the fact that Donald Trump kept his job even though he knew about it for quite a while, It just makes the bile rise in the back of my throat....
Video Shows Beheading of American in Iraq - Velvet - 05-12-2004
Its a sad world we live in . They say over here that bush knew more than hes letting on as well . I feel so sorry for your innocent troops and pray to god that this doesnt happen again . To many innocent soldiers have been killed because of these so called weapons of mass distruction that never were ...
Video Shows Beheading of American in Iraq - lovelynoi - 05-12-2004
Quote:Originally posted by devious@May 11 2004, 02:51 PMwhy in hells name would u actually want to know where the pictures are and actually view them devious thats just sick
Where are they?
Video Shows Beheading of American in Iraq - halfasleep - 05-12-2004
Quote:Originally posted by velvet@May 12 2004, 12:37 AMProblem is, they've seem to have found link to Saddam and Ai Kada and the only reason we seem to be finding out about it now is because C.I.A. didn't tell anyone (or some reason like that... I can't keep all this stuff straight).
Its a sad world we live in . They say over here that bush knew more than hes letting on as well . I feel so sorry for your innocent troops and pray to god that this doesnt happen again . To many innocent soldiers have been killed because of these so called weapons of mass distruction that never were ...
The guy who was executed lived only 40 minutes southeast of us in West Chester, Pennsylvania... though I did not know him, he was a 'local boy'... so that made his death it a little tougher.
Video Shows Beheading of American in Iraq - leeman - 05-12-2004
I have a link if you want me to post it ....
I don't do it without someone really askin for it .... bacause it is NOT fun...
Video Shows Beheading of American in Iraq - halfasleep - 05-12-2004
You can if you want... I could have looked at it last night.. I'd rather not... so I will pass...
It is interesting that the 'execution squad' are all wearing masks and hiding their faces...........per usual..... cowards! :fuck:
Video Shows Beheading of American in Iraq - Beaucephus - 05-12-2004
The website that hosts it hass been shuit down several times but keeps popping up again undercover of other websites from what I have read. Those sorry fuckers even ask for donations there. I bet they get plenty of them too. How they can get away with that and not be traced down is beyond me. :|
Video Shows Beheading of American in Iraq - Devious - 05-12-2004
Quote:Originally posted by lovelynoi+May 12 2004, 04:21 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(lovelynoi @ May 12 2004, 04:21 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'> <!--QuoteBegin-devious@May 11 2004, 02:51 PMwhy in hells name would u actually want to know where the pictures are and actually view them devious thats just sick [/b][/quote]
Where are they?
Thank you!
Video Shows Beheading of American in Iraq - halfasleep - 05-12-2004
Berg Remembered As Generous, Adventurous
By JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press Writer
WEST CHESTER, Pa. - A dedicated weight lifter and amateur comedian, Nick Berg had a desire to help people around the world.
The 26-year-old from suburban Philadelphia liked to move around so much that he took classes at four different universities, and once traveled to Africa to help a poor village, returning with only the clothes on his back.
Friends and family on Tuesday remembered Berg _ the victim of a beheading at the hands of his captors in Iraq _ as generous, outgoing and funny.
"Some of the hardest laughter I had at the fitness center were from the jokes he told," said friend Nick Fillioe, a sports director at the West Chester Area YMCA.
Berg's latest adventure was an independent trip to Iraq, looking for work rebuilding the country's telecommunications infrastructure.
He went to Baghdad in March seeking work with a company that had previously hired him, but was told there wasn't a post this time. His trip home hit a snag when he was detained at a checkpoint, only to be released April 6. His parents last heard from him three days later.
A video posted Tuesday on a Web site linked to al-Qaida showed Berg beheaded by a group that said it was to avenge the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers.
When told by a reporter about the Web site, Berg's father, brother and sister cried in their front yard in this Philadelphia suburb.
"I knew he was decapitated before," said Berg's father, Michael Berg. "That manner is preferable to a long and torturous death. But I didn't want it to become public."
Berg's body was being sent back to the United States Wednesday. It left Kuwait aboard an Air Force plane Tuesday night and was expected to arrive Wednesday at a base in Dover, Delaware, a U.S. military spokesman in Iraq told The Associated Press.
Berg took college classes at Cornell, Drexel, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Oklahoma, though he never earned a degree. He helped set up electronics equipment at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia in 2000. He even made several trips to Third World countries; in Ghana, he taught villagers how to make bricks, and returned emaciated because he gave away most of his food, his father said.
"That's the kind of passion we're dealing with here," Michael Berg said.
Berg's father said his son was a practicing Jew and that "there's a better chance than not" that his captors knew it. "If there was any doubt that they were going to kill him, that probably clinched it, I'm guessing," he said.
Berg, who was unmarried, owned a small business that worked with communication equipment like radio towers. He saw his trip to Iraq, his father said, as an adventure _ one that fit his ideology as a war supporter and backer of the Bush administration.
Berg played the tuba and saxophone, was in the National Honor Society and participated in the Science Olympiad, said Michael Dibartolomeo, who was principal at West Chester Henderson High School when Berg graduated in 1996.
"I will tell you that you will not find a nicer young man than Nick Berg," Dibartolomeo said.
Berg was in Baghdad from late December to Feb. 1 and had returned to Iraq in March, his family said. Having trouble finding work on the second trip, Nick Berg told his parents that he would return home March 30. But he was detained by Iraqi police at a checkpoint in Mosul on March 24. At some point during his 13-day detention, U.S. officials took custody of him, his father said, and he was not allowed to make phone calls or contact a lawyer.
FBI agents visited Berg's parents in West Chester on March 31 and told the family they were trying to confirm their son's identity. On April 5, the Bergs sued the government in federal court in Philadelphia, contending that their son was being held illegally.
Berg was released the next day, and he told his parents he had not been mistreated. They did not hear from him after April 9.
"They could have released him a week earlier, and that would have been the difference," his father said, referring to the upsurge in violence in the country in early April.
Berg's YMCA friends said he worked out and swam several times a week and was interested in power lifting.
Gina Taliani, the YMCA's aquatics and gymnastics director, said Berg loved to swim, but his muscular body made it difficult for him.
"I always joked with him that he sunk like a rock because he was pure muscle," she said. "The biggest thing I remember is laughing and joking together."
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Video Shows Beheading of American in Iraq - Beaucephus - 05-12-2004
Ogrish.com has it for those that want to see it. Ogrish.com is NSFW :|
Video Shows Beheading of American in Iraq - WickedKizzy - 05-12-2004
I seen it already and it upset me.
I saw the unedited video gah it's awful.
Video Shows Beheading of American in Iraq - unleashed - 05-12-2004
Words cannot express the sympothy I have for his family. I just saw the video and my chest hurts and I have a huge knot in my throat... I'm sorry but this is not a topic I can discuss any further...