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Berg Beheading Mystery Deepens, did the US do it?
This came from a British film maker. He meticulously examined the video frame by frame. Many oddities appeared. Below is some of that new video information mixed in with some info you may have already read about. . . . Is the killer really Zarqawi? Militant mastermind Zarqawi has announced his name in the video but hidden his face. Why would he do this? The CIA has said it is indeed Zarqawi, but he appears to be reading his own speech from a paper - and was supposedly killed a year ago. . . . Video time frame evidence -The person holding the knife -- allegedly Zarqawi -- has a Black hood at the video's beginning, but there is an edit (the camera time signatures change) and the knifeholder is then wearing a WHITE hood (and no bulletproof vest). . . . So, if we are to assume the timestamps of the two (?) cameras are accurate, this means Berg was beheaded at 13:47:49 (1:47) but at 2:44, nearly an hour later, he is sitting with his head intact. . . . He looks drugged in the video? Was he killed previously and then decapitated for the video after he was dead? There is no blood gushing as would be expected from a severed artery. You can not see his mouth moving in the part of the video where he is supposedly screaming. If he was in Abu Ghraib prison after being previously detained by the U.S. military in Mosul, did American prison guards or American intelligence accidently or on purpose beat him to death, and then use him to stage the on-camera decapitation? . . . Zarqawi has also been reported to have an artificial leg; this is definitely not apparent in the video. Nor is his Jordanian accent, according to experts. The person holding the knife speaks Arabic with a slight Hebrew/Israeli accent, not Jordanian. Also note the gold ring on the "sinister" (toilet-paper-using) hand -- a definite no-no for Muslims. Muslims would wear the ring on the other hand. And Muslims also never wear gold, only silver. . . . Next, the AK-47 carried by one of the men is a "Gilal" -- an Israeli weapon that improves on the AK- 47. Feyadeen and other insurgents almost universally use AK-47s. (And the Israeli Gilal costs a fortune.) The man in the left of the video is standing in the American military stance known as "parade rest", and several of the apparent terrorists are wearing white tennis shoes and bulletproof vests, not usually worn or available to Iraqis, but available to prison guards, American soldiers and American intelligence. The men in the video are much more heavy set than the average Iraqi who has had inadequate diets since American sanctions and, as insurgents, since living in rough conditions in the desert. The little bit of skin that is visible on the men in the video is much fairer than the darker Iraqi skin. . . . At frame 13:46:27, there is an edit and a person with a white ear and a green cap is seen entering from the right. Then the video is re- edited. The green cap is similar to those used at Abu Ghraib prison. At another frame the edge of a US military jacket is visible. . . . Matt Drudge reports that, "The statement in the video was signed off with Zarqawi's name and dated 11 May" , but Berg's body was reported found on May 10th -- the day before the video was apparently made! . . . The body was found and identified as Berg's, but then other reports said his head was not found. So how did they know it was Berg's body. . . . Also in signing off, the video ends in Arabic but then one last sentence slips in "How will it be done?" in English with no Arabic accent. . . . Next, the video hosting website was reported to be in Malaysia, but was discovered to actually located in London. . . . Pay attention. This one is definitely a setup. . . . [Was it] Revenge for the fact that Berg's dad is anti-war and critical of the Bush administration? A diversion from photos of the torture of Iraqi prisoners? A way to get rid of a US spy gone astray? Berg was homeless and a custodian at an American University for awhile, and was kicked out off the campus library computers several times for vagrancy. So how did he suddenly show up in Iraq as a rich business contractor, and with an Israeli stamp in his passport? Was his spying for the Americans, the Israelis, the Iraqs, or all? If he turned anti-war like his dad, did the Americans then have to get rid of him? [For more details see Nick Berg Video : detailed breakdown ]

posted by Lorenzo 10:12 AM