If Nick Berg was Jewish, why on earth did he go to Iraq?

BillZBubb

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Tue May-11-04 11:33 PM
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If Nick Berg was Jewish, why on earth did he go to Iraq?

No conspiracy theory, just wondering what the heck could he have been thinking? He didn't have a guaranteed job there, he had to know as an American he would be a target, and he really had to know that as a Jew he would be in even more danger.

It just doesn't make sense.

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burrowowl

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Tue May-11-04 11:35 PM
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1. Maybe he was an altruist?

I think he must have liked risk, going in alone without backing from a company, which leads to the question: How did he get in there solo?

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FDRrocks

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Tue May-11-04 11:36 PM
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2. For work...

according to the articles I've read, he went there looking for contract work.

Personally, as I am now, but especially if I was Jewish, I would take a job at Wal Mart before I even thought of going to Iraq.

He was obviously:

A) Adventurous
B) Stupid
C) Too good natured

or... there is something underlying this, involving the US imprisonment of him or other odd circumstances surrounding this, that isn't presently evident.

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Tansy_Gold

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Tue May-11-04 11:55 PM
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3. Now, i could be wrong, but I think I remember that Baghdad

had a large jewish population that had been well protected under Saddam Hussein.

Perhaps Nick Berg thought he would also be helping Jewish people in a time of need.

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DieboldMustDie

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Tue May-11-04 11:59 PM
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4. There was a conversation with his father Michael Berg...

on "Here and Now" Tuesday afternoon. Listen at http://www.here-now.org/shows/2004/05/20040511_6.asp

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readmylips

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Wed May-12-04 12:01 AM
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5. My cousin was asked to go to Iraq as contractor...

by that Kelly guy who was chief of police in NY, and was appointed to organize the Iraqi police. My cousin, retired NYPD captain, thought about the thousands of dollars he would be making in Iraq. His wife told him, you go and I will divorce you. He changed his mind quickly.

To go to Iraq, a person must have a job through a major contracting company doing work in Iraq. The company must clear all people being sent there. The fact that Berg went to Iraq on his own, it is quetionable. Going to Iraq is not the same as going to Disneyland. There has to be a lot more to why Berg went to Iraq.

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JCMach1

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Wed May-12-04 12:03 AM
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6. A very good question...

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incapsulated

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Wed May-12-04 12:06 AM
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7. But this is the weird thing

Edited on Wed May-12-04 12:08 AM by incapsulated

Contract jobs are secured before a person goes over there, from what little I know.

Iraq doesn't seem to be the kind of place you would want to travel around in, looking for work, does it? It's one thing to say; "Nobody knows I'm Jewish (that would grab me off the street) and I'm going to be making crazy money, it's worth the risk!" It's quite another to wander around a war zone looking for a job.

edit: point was already made, above. :crazy:

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readmylips

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Wed May-12-04 12:19 AM
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10. Berg was detained by Military...

If he was not connected to any major contractor, what kind of passport did he carry? If the military found this American guy roaming the cities of Iraq looking for work, wouldn't they have shipped him off back to the US. Maybe charged him with endangering the lives of other soldiers...charged him with something..even for stupidity.

Unless, Berg was a CIA agent adn that is why he was able to move about freely in that hellhold.

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Mattforclark

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Wed May-12-04 12:10 AM
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8. Why would he go to Iraq if he were not Jewish?

That doesn't make sense either.

Going to Iraq doesn't make sense, but that hasn't stopped hundreds of thousands of people.

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AgadorSparticus

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Wed May-12-04 12:11 AM
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9. it doesn't seem reasonable to go 1/2way across the planet looking for work

aren't those kinds of jobs in Iraq divied up soley to Halliburton? and its subsidiaries? and don't you look for those jobs here in the US via bids?

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