Berg - What's The Most Likely Theory

Let's see where DU stands now that we've had a while to debate the issue and see the film. Theoretically speaking and whether or not you think the decpitation was done after he was already dead: Who most likely ordered/coordinated/paid for Berg's killing?

Right now, with everybody involved in the case lying (except for Mr. Berg's family), it's impossible to tell.

There are probably a large number of Occupation and Iraqi "Keystone Kops" that are involved. But keep in mind who The Boss is.

--bkl

A bunch of random thugs did it because they want people to know they're bad. They couldn't capture a U.S. soldier, mind you, so they snatched this poor sucker off the street. They liked Berg too much to do what they had originally planned, so they killed him first and had someone dub the screams of the man they had already killed. The man who cut his head off hasn't slept well lately.

so this is too hard to choose right now. Keep the the reports and
stories comming though.

And it's not impossible either.

All the dirt comes out in the wash. I think one of the murderers will squeal. And from looking at that video, I think Berg was already dead.

That's my personal opnion anyway.

Isn't that what is happening? Abuses and outrages by Americans occur and numerous groups flare up. They become outraged and do something in response. Why don't Americans react to outrage the same way? Is it because we are more "civilized"? No, I think indifferent.

Berg died in interrogation, the video was done to cover that up plus give bush an issue to try and divert the public from the Iraqi torture horror. That's about the only one I could vote for, at this point, anyway.

He wasn't killed for psyops; that's just the benefit of his death. And the desperate lie that he wasn't in custody suggests to me that this wasn't terribly well thought out.

Imagine that during the FBI interviews, things either got a little rough or it is clear that he knows things that the neo-cons don't want known. So they let him out alive, but they can't let the kid back home alive lest he tell his anti-war dad and the media believe him in the midst of the prisoner abuse scandal. So they tail him....

In this Sy Hersh interview by Diane Rehm, Sy hints of Rumsfeld's contacting Murder Incorporated - about 29 minutes in...
http://www.wamu.org/ram/2004/r1040504.ram

Also check Hersh's latest...

The people assigned to the program worked by the book, the former intelligence official told me. They created code words, and recruited, after careful screening, highly trained commandos and operatives from America’s élite forces—Navy seals, the Army’s Delta Force, and the C.I.A.’s paramilitary experts. They also asked some basic questions: “Do the people working the problem have to use aliases? Yes. Do we need dead drops for the mail? Yes. No traceability and no budget. And some special-access programs are never fully briefed to Congress.”

http://newyorker.com/fact/content/?040524fa_fact

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I don't have a theory. What happened? All I know is that at some point in time, whether on the video or at another time, a US citizen was somehow decapitated.

Was it the US, trying to punish an anit-war citizen? Maybe, who can say.

Was it a group of muslim extremists looking to push an agenda? That doesn't seem unlikely, to say the least.

Was it a bunch of small-time thugs who found an American and decided to show how tough they were? Possibly.

I don't know at all, because I really just don't think there will ever be enough information to be clear on what happened with this.

I know any investigation led by Bush and the US will be a complete sham that is more focused on covering up anything damaging than finding the facts. And I honestly don't trust any of the major parties involved at all.