dadberg

"In a rare interview in this country, Michael Berg joins us on the phone today." on democracynow:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/24/2113228

MICHAEL BERG: "My son wrote me an email saying, “I’m being held by the military.” This was after he was released. “I was held by the military even though they will insist that it was the Iraqi police.”

(this is the first time i heard this. how would sunberg know?)

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AMY GOODMAN: Michael Moore interviewed Nick at a business conference here about investment in Iraq, is that right?

MICHAEL BERG: Yes, it is.

AMY GOODMAN: And gave you the videotape?

MICHAEL BERG: Yes, he did, and he promised, and has kept his promise, not to give the tape to the media or to anyone else, and not to use it himself, which I imagine cost him not only in dollars but in fame or whatever. It would have been a big headline at the time if he had done that. It would have brought attention to his movie, which hadn’t yet come out at that point. So, I applaud Michael Moore as a fellow human being for standing up and doing the right thing and being a man of his word.

(this still makes no sense to me.)

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MICHAEL BERG: Whether it was Zarqawi or someone else with a name that would be difficult for me to pronounce or someone else with a hood over their face doesn't really matter much to me. The fact is that the people who killed my son were not in Iraq before the United States invaded Iraq.

(this is an odd thing to say - its the radmins 'foreign insurgence' line. on what basis could he 'know' that? something like only 1-2% of peeps arrested in iraq were foreigners)

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MICHAEL BERG: Well, I hate that picture of Nick in the orange jumpsuit, because Nick never did anything wrong in his life. At first I thought that the orange jumpsuit, which was described by many as something that was worn in American prisons, not anywhere in Iraq, made me wonder, you know, what was -- it just drew up a lot of questions in my mind. But after I saw Paul Johnson and others in the jumpsuit, I guess they’ve gotten a source of those jumpsuits and are putting them on people.

(i still dont buy this. rather than deheaders finding a source of orange jumpsuits, im more tempted to think that the subsequent unheadings were to cover up the sunberg discrepancies. pretty effective.)

(separately - at the time the f911 vid went into hiding, i speculated that folksberg 'would' hate the remaining image of their son being beheaded in orange, and could trump/ameliorate that lasting image by releasing the f911 image where nick was in a suit and 'looked better than ever' (according to sis) - but no, despite 'hating' the image (of the orange suit), they keep the other under lockandkey.

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AMY GOODMAN: You have hardly spoken in this country. Why is that?

MICHAEL BERG: I don't get a fair shake by the corporate sponsored media. I went on Good Morning, America a couple of months ago, and I was promised seven minutes, an opportunity to speak against the war if I would answer a question about Nick and a question about his illegal detention. I held up my end of the bargain and they cut me off after four-and-a-half minutes.

(still no mention of that cn8 'coup' interview i couldnt find - praps it was cancelled at the last minute? (altho there was no word that it was cancelled))

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MICHAEL BERG: ...that's just one example of many, many times when I was deceived by the American media. I feel that the American media--

AMY GOODMAN: I'm sorry, I just lost the signal.

AMY GOODMAN: I just lost the signal for Michael Berg.

MICHAEL BERG: I can hear you.

(fancy having a technical difficulty just as dadberg was launching into an attack on the media... i guess it happens all the time... and he can hear her - must be one of those oneway problem phonecalls. spooky.)

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MICHAEL BERG: He had a radio broadcast tower building business, and he was there presumably to get business, but he knew, as I did, that whenever he went overseas on a, quote, business venture, he usually lost money.

(so it wasnt really a biz - first time we've heard this.)

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the other interesting thing is that despite all the evidence/questions about the veracity of the beheading vid - ive never seen dadberg address this issue. it seems that sunberg was prolly dead b4 the deheading (given the absence of blood, according to many doctors) - yet dadberg seems to always assume that the official story is true, and no interviewer has asked him about the many apparent holes (which may not prove anything, but its the sort of thing u'd expect a grieving-parent/crusader to at least question)

and of course, no mention of "The FBI questioned Berg in 2002 to find out why his e-mail password had ended up with an Oklahoma terror suspect linked to al Qaeda terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui." or "In Iraq, Berg partnered with an ex-Philadelphia Iraqi expatriate who'd been convicted in a Russian-exile crack-vial ring before becoming the highly visible leader of an anti-Saddam Hussein group backed by the Bush administration."

im nunthawiser.

let confusion re(s)ign.
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