Let's find out the truth about Nick Berg.
The Tallahassee Democrat Online: "Michael Moore is the perfect anti-war action man for our time. He's the post-modern Norman Mailer, playing to image rather than word. Norman Mailer wrote a good novel a long time ago. Moore is a celebrity propagandist puffed up by a culture of sycophants long on emotion and short on intellect."
Iraq on the Record: "Prepared at the direction of Rep. Henry A. Waxman, the Iraq on the Record Database is a searchable collection of 237 specific misleading statements about the threat posed by Iraq made by the five Administration officials most responsible for providing public information and shaping public opinion on Iraq: President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Powell, and National Security Advisor Rice."
Japan Today - News - Moore interviewed Berg for 'Fahrenheit 9/11' - Japan's Leading International News Network: "Sara Berg said she saw the video footage as a 'gift.' (Wire reports)"
The Washington Dispatch: "The murder of Nick Berg was intended to make Americans demand the removal of our forces from Iraq and to halt the war against terrorism. Little do the Islamic terrorists know that when one of our own is murdered in the name of their God that the American people rally around our President, our flag and our ideals of freedom and liberty."
Silicon Valley - Dan Gillmor's eJournal - Nick Berg Tops Searches, but Why?: "I'm one of the people who did the search. I wanted to see how far and wide the video of this man's grotesque death had spread. I learned, to my sadness, that it's incredibly easy to find."
Donald Rumsfeld is gruff, tough ... and a poet? Composer finds hidden mystery in the defense secretary's words of war. Composer loves Rumsfeld's way with words
Currents - Killing of American Berg ....Who were the Terrorists???: "A picture is still worth a thousand words, but a picture can now lie just as convincingly as a thousand words can. "
Google Search: "william burroughs "jacques derrida": "Results 1 - 10 of about 455 for 'william burroughs 'jacques derrida'. (0.14 seconds)"
Google Search: "nick berg" grotesque: "Results 1 - 10 of about 5,290 for 'nick berg' grotesque. (0.20 seconds) "
The Electronic Revolution: "ELECTRONIC REVOLUTION
Marc Perkel Rantz: Berg Video - SMOKING GUN?: "Today new pictures were released of prison torture at Abu Ghraib prison. But not just still pictures. Today video was released showing prisoners being tortured by Americans. Aparently Kodak film experts are Kodak Park in Rochester New York have compared the digital watermarks of the turture video and the beheading video and have determined that one of the cameras used in the Nick Berg beheading is THE SAME CAMERA that took the prison torture video.
Salon.com | Right Hook: " Tuesday's horrific video of American civilian Nick Berg being beheaded by Islamic militants in Iraq led some �ber-hawks, who had been on the defensive after the revelations of U.S. military brutality at Abu Ghraib prison, to counterattack. "
Mercury News: Bay Area news, technology, jobs, cars & real estate: "From the prison camps to the front lines, pocket cameras, many digital ones capable of whizzing uncensored images home, are nearly as standard among American soldiers' gear as rifles and dog tags."
New York Post Online Edition: news: "May 23, 2004 -- Republicans close to President Bush are fuming over an advertisement that features a hooded Statue of Liberty and calls for the firing of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld - although the controversial spot has yet to air. "
Japan Today - News - Rumsfeld bans camera phones among military in Iraq - Japan's Leading International News Network: "LONDON � Cell phones fitted with digital cameras have been banned in U.S. army installations in Iraq on orders from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, a business newspaper reported Monday."
Donald Rumsfeld Prohibits Use Of Camcorders During Wedding Ceremonies (TheDailyFarce.com): "After the unfortunate attack on a wedding party in Iraq by the U.S., and the surfacing of actual video footage showing the wedding, Donald Rumsfeld announced this morning that camcorders, digital or not, are prohibited from now on during any kind of celebration, including weddings, birthday parties and anniversaries.
TP: Der seltsame Fall Nicholas Berg: "Das Internet erm�glicht es, dass Menschen, die �ber die ganze Welt verstreut sind, gemeinsam die offenen Punkte sezieren, sich in der Skepsis st�rken und Gedanken ausbr�ten, die vom begr�ndeten und rationalem Zweifel bis zu den wildesten paranoiden Spekulationen reichen. Man wird den Verdacht nicht los, dass die Bush-Regierung mit ihren Spin-Experten diesen 'Nebel' f�r ihre Politik ben�tigt und sch�tzt. "
Mercury News | 05/18/2004 | The battle over Nick Berg: "He appears destined to wind up a symbol. The question is, a symbol of what?"
The HooK: ESSAY- Snuff film: Zarqawi's suicide note?: "What does Zarqawi do? In 'retaliation' for the Abu Ghraib images, he stages a singularly nauseating 'execution' of a private American citizen who has been wandering around Iraq. The probable effect is to offer many Americans an exit from their own moral horror. "
I have said that the real scandal of Watergate is the use made of recordings. And what is this use? Having made the recordings as described what then do they do with them?
ANSWER: THEY PLAY THEM BACK ON LOCATION.
They play these recordings back to the target himself is the target is an individual from passing cars and agents that walk by him in the street. They play these recordings back in his naborhood. Finally they play them back in subways, restaurants, air ports and other public places.
PLAYBACK is the essential ingredient.
The Electronic Revolution
New York Post Online Edition: postopinion: "In case the world needed a reminder of why America is waging its War on Terror, it got one yesterday. "
Google Search: nick berg: "The more disturbing possibility that arises from all the evidence that
Google Search: nick berg: "NICK BERG 'MOCK' BEHEADING CONSPIRACY ARCHIVE ARTICLES"
Critical Montages: "'Method of this project: literary montage. I needn't say anything. Merely show.' -- Walter Benjamin"
"A note: Out of respect for the Berg Family, we will NOT Post the video nor will we post links to it.
Nick Berg Memorial Home Page: "'I've worked in broadcasting for 5 years now as a radio chief engineer. It didn't take long to realize that tower workers were your best friends. They all seem to have one unstoppable quality: they're tough and they'll fight to help someone out. I once saw a man climb 1000ft on a 10 degree day to fix an antenna to get a local TV station back on the air. When I think of Nick Berg, that's the man I see. Nick was trying to get Radio and TV back to the people of Iraq, what a noble thing to do. His legacy will live on with every station he touched.' "
Salon.com Technology | A picture is no longer worth a thousand words: "'One of the founders of Doctors Without Borders once said, 'Without a photograph there is no massacre,'' says Fred Ritchin, a professor of photography at New York University. 'You can say Tiananmen Square happened -- there was a video, there was a massacre. But if we typically disbelieve the evidence of a photograph, then when the Chinese government says there's no massacre, what are you going to hold up against that?'"
Salon.com Technology | Horror show: "Digital cameras were never meant as a tool for documenting torture, and the Web was not invented as a way for fanatics to broadcast pictures of their murders. But here we are. 'They've become tools of war,' Winslow says. "
American Prospect Online - ViewWeb: "In a sense, the battle between the Defense Department's deadly fantasies and the State Department's sober realism was being played out for the destiny of Nicholas Berg. The Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) -- established by and answerable to Donald Rumsfeld and his merry band -- has determinedly been recruiting U.S. businesses to come to Iraq, even as the State Department has been warning Americans to stay far away. "
Nick Berg arrests made: Kimmitt suspects "some culpability" :: The London News Review: "If it was soldiers, fighting a war, who massacred the wedding guests at Makr al-Deeb, then what is the status of the men who massacred Nick Berg? They would seem to be on the other side of the war. Does this make them soldiers? Does this make the killing of Nick Berg just one of the 'bad things' that happen in wars? Or is this the first war in history to be fought entirely in one direction?
The Beheading of Nick Berg: death steps out of the shadows :: The London News Review: "Suddenly death has a name.
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | George Bush never looked into Nick's eyes: "Even more than the murderers who took my son's life, I condemn those who make policies to end lives "
The Curious Case of Nick Berg -- Carol Devine-Molin -- GOPUSA: "Clearly, the heinous slaying of Nick Berg has significantly deflected from the Iraqi prison problem, placing it in perspective and underscoring the true monstrous nature of al-Qaeda."
Linda S. Heard: Conspiracy theories surround Berg By Linda S Heard: "After more than a year of 'dodgy dossiers', forged Iraq-Niger documents, correspondence faked to stitch-up a British member of parliament, alleged UN oil-for-food scams, and Hollywood-style movies of the topping of Saddam's statue, the rescue of Jessica Lynch and the Commander-in-Chief's dishing up of a plastic Thanksgiving turkey, perhaps the conspiracy crowd can be forgiven. "
Dennis Prager: The news media and Nick Berg: "The bottom line is that the United States of America is fighting the world's news media as well as Islamic totalitarianism. Until we understand that, we have no chance of winning."
Mercury News | 05/18/2004 | The battle over Nick Berg: "It's too soon to know who the real Nick Berg was and why he was killed. He may have been a naive, luckless kid who stumbled into a trap. Or he may have been up to something a bit less innocent. He appears destined to wind up a symbol. The question is, a symbol of what?"
CIA: Al-Zarqawi beheaded Berg in Iraq: "Intelligence officials conducted a technical analysis of the video released on an Islamic Web site and determined 'with high probability' that the person shown speaking on the tape - wearing a head scarf and a ski mask - is al-Zarqawi, a CIA official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
First Draft by Tim Porter: Digital Proof, Human Source: "Digital cameras have changed the nature of news sources"
Silicon Valley - Dan Gillmor's eJournal - The Power of Pictures: "Suppose the Americans hadn't bothered to take pictures of each other in that infamous prison? Suppose they'd just gone on abusing the prisoners without cameras? Does a story exist without pictures?"
Aljazeera.Net - Bloggers doubt Berg execution video: "However, the circumstances of the video release are also strange. A Reuters journalist in Dubai first named the Muntada al-Ansar al-Islami website as the source for the video � at www.al-ansar.biz.
"How did Nick Berg end up in an orange jumpsuit, starring in the world's most famous snuff film?
Google Search: "nick berg" "daniel pearl": "Results 1 - 10 of about 13,000 for 'nick berg' 'daniel pearl'. (0.14 seconds)"
The Daniel Pearl Decapitation Video: "The Daniel Pearl Video
strange, only 127 pics turn up and not a single one of the "nick berg" ...Google Search: nick berg
Berg video dominates Net searches - Breaking News - http://www.theage.com.au: "The decapitation of American Nick Berg and the Iraq war have replaced pornography and pop stars as the main internet searches, according to a survey."
Victor Kattan: On the Execution of Nick Berg: "The last moments of the life of Nicholas Berg raise many interesting, grotesque and thought-provoking issues. It is a demonstration of the power of the internet, and that governments no longer have a monopoly on information. The Americans have underestimated their adversary. They thought the war in Iraq would be a walkover. Certainly, in military terms it was. However the war is not over, and propaganda is part and parcel of this war, as in all wars throughout history, and Berg's captors were only too well aware of that."
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Israel News : Jerusalem Post Internet Edition: "The father of an American beheaded in Iraq said in an interview broadcast Monday that he holds U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld responsible for his son's death and called for his resignation. "
Camera Works: Audio and Video (washingtonpost.com): "Excerpts from Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld's remarks en route to Baghdad. "
I Love Jenna Bush: "Video of beheading of Nick Berg
Beheading video seen as war tactic / Experts say terrorists employing grisly form of propaganda: "The nightmare video of an American civilian captured in Iraq being decapitated by his captors was anything but a random act of terrorism, experts say -- it was a press release, carefully designed for a global audience. "
Drudge Retort: Cole calls Berg killing 'monstrous, horrendous publicity stunt': "(Berg's slaying) was done in order to get on the front page of the New York Times, and the New York Times should resist that temptation. I think we should be very careful about giving a lot of space and a lot of attention to what is essentially a monstrous, horrendous publicity stunt."
