From: Eva-Lise Carlstrom (evalise@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat May 15 2004 - 10:50:55 MDT
The text you quote below is not from the link you
included. Where did it come from?
--Eva
--- Blunderov <squooker@mweb.co.za> wrote:
> [Bluderov] Curioser and curioser.
> Best Regards
>
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/11/iraq/main616842.shtml
>
> <snip>
> CBS News National Security Correspondent David
> Martin reports U.S. officials
> said the FBI questioned Berg in 2002 after a
> computer password he used in
> college turned up in the possession of Zacarias
> Moussaoui, the al Qaeda
> operative arrested shortly before Sept. 11 for his
> suspicious activity at a
> flight school in Minnesota.
>
> Moussaoui is now in federal custody and awaiting
> trial on conspiracy charges
> stemming from the Sept. 11 attacks.
>
> "The suggestion that Mr. Berg was in some way
> involved in terrorist
> activity, or may have been linked in some way to
> terrorist activity, is a
> suggestion that we do not have any ability to
> support and we do not believe
> is a valid one," Ashcroft said at a news conference.
>
>
> The 2002 investigation determined that an e-mail
> address once used by Berg
> apparently was obtained by the Moussaoui
> acquaintances while Berg was
> briefly an engineering student at the University of
> Oklahoma in 1999.
>
> Berg, a small businessman who went to Iraq seeking a
> role in reconstruction,
> was found dead May 8. On May 11, an Islamic Web site
> posted video in which
> masked militants beheaded him. The CIA has
> identified the speaker in the
> video - the man who murdered Berg - as Abu Musab
> al-Zarqawi, a terrorist
> suspected in numerous attacks in Iraq.
>
> In the wake of Berg's gruesome murder, the past link
> to Moussaoui seems a
> stranger-than-fiction coincidence - an American who
> inadvertently gave away
> his computer password to one suspected al Qaeda
> operative is later murdered
> by another notorious al Qaeda operative, Zarqawi.
>
> The slain man's father, Michael Berg, told reporters
> that his son met
> Moussaoui while riding the bus to classes, and had
> allowed the suspect to
> use his computer.
>
> But the 2002 FBI interview could explain the
> bureau's interest in Berg while
> he was detained by authorities in Iraq shortly
> before the militants
> kidnapped and killed him.
>
> Berg was picked up on March 24 and released on April
> 6. The details of that
> detention are the subject of a dispute between the
> Berg family and the U.S.
> government.
>
> The family contends Berg was detained by the U.S.
> military, and even filed
> suit seeking his release on April 5. The U.S.
> military says Iraqi police
> detained him. Iraqi police deny that.
>
> To back its claims that Berg was in U.S. custody,
> the family gave The
> Associated Press copies of e-mails from Beth A.
> Payne, the U.S. consular
> officer in Iraq.
>
> "I have confirmed that your son, Nick, is being
> detained by the U.S.
> military in Mosul. He is safe. He was picked up
> approximately one week ago.
> We will try to obtain additional information
> regarding his detention and a
> contact person you can communicate with directly,"
> Payne wrote to Berg's
> father on April 1.
>
> Payne repeated that Berg was "being detained by the
> U.S. military" in an
> e-mail the same day to Berg's mother, Suzanne. The
> next day, Payne wrote
> that she was still trying to find a local contact
> for the family, but added
> that "given the security situation in Iraq it is not
> easy."
>
> The government says the e-mail from Payne was false.
> State Department
> spokeswoman Kelly Shannon said Payne's information
> came from the Coalition
> Provisional Authority. The authority did not tell
> Payne until April 7 that
> Berg had been held by Iraqi police and not the U.S.
> military, she said.
>
> "As Mr. Berg had been released, the consular officer
> did not convey this
> information to the family because he was released,
> thankfully," Shannon
> said. "And we thought he was on his way."
>
> Coalition spokesman Dan Senor said Wednesday that
> Iraqi police arrested Berg
> in Mosul on March 24 because local authorities
> believed he may have been
> involved in "suspicious activities."
>
> In Mosul, police chief Maj. Gen. Mohammed Khair
> al-Barhawi insisted Thursday
> that his department had never arrested Berg and
> maintained he had no
> knowledge of the case.
>
> During his detention, Berg was questioned by FBI
> agents three times.
>
> Berg is believed to have been kidnapped days after
> Iraqi police or coalition
> forces released him. The family has blamed the
> government for keeping him in
> custody for too long while anti-American violence
> escalated in Iraq.
>
> Shortly before Berg's disappearance, he was warned
> by the FBI that Iraq was
> too volatile a place for unprotected American
> civilians and that he could be
> harmed, a senior FBI official, speaking on condition
> of anonymity, said
> Wednesday.
>
> Officials said the U.S. government warned Berg to
> leave Iraq, and offered
> him a flight out of the country, a month before his
> grisly death.
>
> The Bergs said they want to know if the government
> had received an offer to
> trade Iraqi prisoners for Nicholas Berg. On the
> videotape of his death,
> Berg's killers made a reference to a trade offer,
> but U.S. officials have
> said they knew of no such offer.
>
>
> Michael Berg said he wanted to hear President Bush
> address the issue.
>
> "I would like to ask him if it is true that al Qaeda
> offered to trade my
> son's life for the life of another person," Michael
> Berg said. "And if that
> is true, well, I need that information. . and I
> think the people of the
> United States of America need to know what the fate
> of their sons and
> daughters might be in the hands of the Bush
> administration."
> </snip>
>
>
>
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