Family Of Berg Angry With U.S. Government (News Article)

Family of Executed American Angry with U.S. Govt.
Wednesday May 12, 2004
By Jon Hurdle

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters)

Family and friends of the American civilian executed by Islamic militants are angry about U.S. government denials that their son was ever in U.S. custody in Iraq, a family spokesman said on Wednesday.

Neighbor Bruce Hauser, who has acted as a family spokesman, said, "The community feels that if the government had Nick Berg in their control they should have sought to release Berg back to his home country."

"I have to believe that the American government had him in their custody. The Bergs knew that Nick was in their custody and the Bergs wanted the government to release him so he could come home," Hauser said.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=5123275


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FBI Saw Berg During Iraq Police Detention
Wednesday May 12, 2004

Berg Interviewed By FBI In Iraq


BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The FBI saw Nick Berg, the American civilian beheaded in Iraq, three times while he was being detained by Iraqi police, the U.S.-led occupation authority said Wednesday.
An Islamist Web site Tuesday carried a video clip of Berg's beheading, with a statement saying a group linked to al Qaeda carried it out in revenge for the abuse of Iraqis by U.S. troops.

Dan Senor, spokesman for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, said Berg had not been in U.S. custody before or after his arrest by Iraqi police on March 24. "My understanding is that they suspected that he was engaged in suspicious activity," Senor told a news conference. "U.S. authorities were notified, the FBI visited with Mr. Berg when he was in Iraqi police detention and determined that he was not involved in any criminal or terrorist activities," Senor said. "They had contact with him on three occasions."

Brigadier-General Mark Kimmitt, the U.S. military spokesman in Iraq, said U.S. military police had seen Berg during his detention to make sure he was being fed and treated properly.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5121419

believing Brigadier-General Mark Kimmitt?

Nick Berg's murder was released. It states that his parents heard from him on April 6, 7, 8. and 9. So, doesn't it seem likely that Nick would have told his parents about what had happened to him while he was detained, and about who had been detaining him?

From May 9

The Bergs heard from their son on April 6, 7, 8 and 9. He said he would come home through Jordan, Turkey or Kuwait, whatever looked safest and most feasible.

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/8626951.htm

U.S. denies it jailed beheaded American
Officials reject family's charge that Berg was in U.S. custody

Jacqueline Larma / AP

The Associated Press
Updated: 2:06 p.m. ET May 12, 2004
BAGHDAD, Iraq

The young American who was shown being decapitated on a videotape posted by an al-Qaida-linked Web site was never in U.S. custody in Iraq, contrary to the claims of his family, a coalition spokesman said Wednesday.

Berg's family and the coalition force in Iraq disputed the circumstances of the independent businessman's final days in Iraq, with coalition spokesman Dan Senor denying the family's claim that he had been held by U.S. forces.

“To the best of my knowledge, he was at no time under the jurisdiction or detention of coalition forces,” Senor said Wednesday at a news conference in Baghdad.

But his family later learned he was detained by Iraqi police at a checkpoint in Mosul on March 24. He was turned over to U.S. officials and detained for 13 days, the family said.

His father, Michael, said his son was not allowed to make phone calls or contact a lawyer.

Asked about the U.S. officials' comments, Michael Berg told the AP that that U.S. officials were "playing word games."

"The Iraqi police do not tell the FBI what to do. The FBI tells the Iraqi police what to do. Who do they think they're kidding?" the elder Berg said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4953015/

the family & friends of Nick Berg are not going to be silenced on this matter either.
There are too many questions. The game of fox and goose played by the government with the 9-11 debacle has only raised suspicions in the Nick Berg case.

Every attempt at pacifying the public's questions by the Bush administration, only seems to open a new can of maggots. Bush's lies are becoming transparent to more and more people. And they're becoming louder in their demand for answers.

God Bless Them All in Their Quest.

If Bush paraded Osama out in public his credibility would still be suspect.
Too much is being exposed about Bush ties to corrpution to save his lying ass anymore.

Will Bush ever capture Osama? NO. Family acceptance or not, Osama is still of Bin Laden blood. The Bush family would never lay harm to there own.
The wild goose chase will continue, until the real agenda of why Bush has planted his feet in the Middle East comes to pass.
Regardless of how he has to do it, Bush is closer to achieving the goal than ever before. Closer than his father ever got.
He's not about to bail at this point.
How many innocents die, Americans foreigners or Iraqis, is just an unfortunate part of the plan.

Bush will need to be removed from carrying out his plan any farther.
He certainly will never give it up on his own conscience.
Bush will go down in history as another of the deranged fascist leaders who saw everything in the world as his to use.
He will have to be stopped before he ever gives up his self proclaimed destiny.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1525646,00.html

Michael Berg said he blamed the US government for creating circumstances that led to his son's death. He said if his son hadn't been detained for so long, he might have been able to leave the country before the violence worsened.

"I think a lot of people are fed up with the lack of civil rights this thing has caused," he said. "I don't think this administration is committed to democracy."

took custody of him.

Questions Surround Slain American in Iraq
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 12, 2004
Filed at 5:26 p.m. ET

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- The young American decapitated on a videotape posted by an al-Qaida-linked Web site was never in U.S. custody despite claims to the contrary by his family, U.S. authorities said Wednesday.

Statements by American officials in Iraq leave many unanswered questions, including why Iraqi police jailed Nicholas Berg for nearly two weeks and why U.S. officials repeatedly questioned him in custody.
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Berg told his family that U.S. officials took custody of him soon after his arrest and he was not allowed to make phone calls or contact a lawyer, his father said.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Iraq-Berg.html