Re: Nick Berg and Ben Linder

[k hanly <khanly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I found the NYT article very suspicious. It ignores or does not resolve
important questions and leaves out important details. Although the article
notes at one point that Iraqi police and US officials both deny they had
custody of Berg it also recounts as fact that he was in Iraqi police
custody. What sort of crappy journalism is that?
  Also it does not mention such important details as the part in the video
execution where the executioners claim he is being executed because a deal
could not be made to trade Berg for Abu Ghraib prisoner(s). Nor as you
suggest it doesnt discuss the execution video details either.
    Nor does it mention the fact that Berg was said to have been in
possession of a Koran and anti-semitic literature.
    The article is a human interest entertainment fluff job.

Cheers, Ken Hanly
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Zarembka" <zarembka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 9:01 AM
Subject: Re: Nick Berg and Ben Linder


> I find the question of whether Berg was actually killed by beheading and
> by whom far more interesting than the NYT article about Berg's
> personality. See, for example, "The Nicholas Berg execution: A working
> hypothesis and a resolution for the orange jumpsuit mystery"
>
> http://www.brushtail.com.au/nick_berg_hypothesis.html
>
> Paul Z.
>
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