Family: E-Mails Prove Berg Was In U.S. Custody

At least that's what it says on the front page of nbc10.com. However, when you click on the link, you get this:

"The article that you are trying to view is no longer available through this Web site. The content is copyrighted by the Associated Press, which requires NBC10.com to delete its stories two weeks after they are originally posted."

Get out the tinfoil, folks. :)

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_np=0&u_pg=54&u_sid=1093809

"Coalition spokesman Dan Senor told reporters that Berg was detained by Iraqi police in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. The Iraqis informed the Americans, and the FBI questioned him three times about what he was doing in Iraq.

Senor said that to his knowledge Berg "was at no time under the jurisdiction or detention of coalition forces"


http://www.timesdaily.com/apps....5130871

"A U.S. diplomatic official in Iraq told the family of slain American Nicholas Berg that he was being detained by the U.S. military when they lost contact with him for several days in early April, according to e-mails provided by the family Thursday"

"To back its claims that Berg was in U.S. custody, the family showed The Associated Press an April 1 e-mail from Beth A. Payne, the U.S. consular officer in Iraq.

"I have confirmed that your son, Nick, is being detained by the U.S. military in Mosul. He is safe. He was picked up approximately one week ago. We will try to obtain additional information regarding his detention and a contact person you can communicate with directly," the e-mail said."

can't believe a word they say.

that still works as of a few minutes ago:

http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040513/APA/405130871

Unfortunate that this mistake happened on this story, but still kind of funny.

It is an unfortunate error.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/13/1084289819984.html


Slain man 'held because of Jewish name'
By Toby Harnden
Baghdad
Marcus Warren
West Chester, Pennsylvania
May 14, 2004

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Nicholas Berg, pictured in orange overalls, seconds before being beheaded on camera by Islamists.
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Nicholas Berg, the American who was filmed being beheaded, had been arrested by Iraqi police earlier and held on suspicion of being a spy because he had a Jewish name and an Israeli stamp in his passport, it has emerged.

At the al-Fanar Tower Hotel in Baghdad, friends spoke fondly of a body-building adventurer who shrugged off danger, was passionate about his family and had been capitalising on the technology boom in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein.

Hugo Infante, 31, a Chilean photographer said he re-met Mr Berg around April 6 when the American returned to Baghdad, two weeks after he said he was going to Mosul for two days on business. "He said: 'They arrested me because I had a Jewish last name and an Israeli stamp in my passport.' Then the Iraqi police put him with the US military because they thought he was a spy.

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