Post by MO on May 24, 2004 20:51:36 GMT -5
Nick Berg: Now you see him, now you don't!
Posted: May 24, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Barbara Simpson
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
Talk about a disappearing act. Nicholas Berg scarcely had 15 minutes of fame. His shooting star appeared suddenly on news radar, and almost as suddenly was gone.
Unfortunately, in the process, he was murdered in cold blood. It was an act of barbarism heightened by the lens of the camera that recorded both the grisly images and horrific sounds of his painful, bloody and prolonged death.
Some say Nick Berg was killed like an animal. Not really. Those murderous Muslims would show more concern for the sheep they slaughter for food than they did for the human being viciously hacked to death in the name of their "religion of peace."
On the face of it, Berg was in Iraq looking for freelance work rebuilding communications towers. In the madhouse of today's Iraq – the chaotic mix of war, terrorism, survival and newly experienced freedom – there's money to be made rebuilding a country stolen blind, and beaten into submission by Saddam Hussein.
By all accounts, Berg wanted to "do good" and make a buck at the same time. Despite rumors of conspiracy and mystery as to his past and current connections with Muslims, nothing's been confirmed. It appears he was in the wrong place at the wrong time – a very wrong time, indeed.
Whether he knew his captors or whether there's more to his story than we now know – or may ever know – begs the question. Reality cannot be denied. Nick Berg was murdered – perhaps sacrificed – to denigrate the United States, to demean coalition forces and to defame the Bush administration.
It wasn't enough for terrorists to torture him physically and mentally and then kill him barbarically. No, they did it with the flourish of Islamic terrorism: aim a camera at it, shoot it in color, record the sound and use a prepared script with all the participants in full, but hooded, costume.
Michael Moore must have grit his teeth that they did it with such panache. He'll probably use the footage in his next America-bashing documentary, which no doubt will get him a standing ovation at Cannes.
Perhaps he'll make a deal to use the video of the Daniel Pearl's beheading. Maybe he'll find a way to use the video of the desecrated bodies of the four contractors ambushed and killed, their charred bodies hung from a bridge, surrounded by a cheering mob.
He could even use the finished product to raise money for the families of suicide bombers – then again, maybe not. Let me think about that.
Nick Berg's murder was broadcast on an Islamic website and broadcast worldwide. Most media here avoided the full horror, though the verbal description was chilling enough as was the sound – from pain to shrieks to gurgling to silence.
The media reported the atrocity, many assuming the killing was to avenge the prisoner abuse. But something was missing in the news coverage of the horrific death of an American civilian. Horror was missing. Outrage was missing. Anger was missing. They're still missing.
It was just another news story in a war on terrorism that has involved horrors never seen on the "American Street," but horrors that are a regular part of the "Arab Street."
It seems our media have taken the position that since beheadings (and the removal of other body parts) are a normal part of Islamic justice, Americans should just accept it and move on.
So move they did. The Berg story, which broke on May 11, was gone from headlines in barely a week. As I write this, we're told four of the killers are in custody – members of Saddam Hussein's Saddam Fedayeen and at least one is Saddam's relative. But, no big headlines.
However, headlines and pictures continue for the prison story.
Courts martial have already begun and those who, indeed, did participate are being charged and punished. And, there are considerations given to paying reparations to the "abused" prisoners!
But we've also learned many of the pictures were phony and many of the accusations false.
There isn't much attention being given to the fact that many of those prisoners were involved in plots to maim and kill American and other coalition forces, as well as innocent civilians – funny how that detail gets lost in the shuffle of the abuse headlines, which, in reality, have as their goal the destruction of the Bush administration and the belittling of the United States.
The ultimate tragedy is that the life and death of Nick Berg will just be a footnote when history is written, if Western historians do the writing.
In terrorist history, Nick Berg will be just a headline noting their justice against the infidel. Berg's murder was just another head in the barrel – literally – along with Daniel Pearl and nameless others.
But regardless of who writes history, innocent blood is on the hands of the killers and on the hands of the American media who decided that the on-camera murder of an American civilian was less important than attempting to destroy a conservative American presidency.
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Posted: May 24, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Barbara Simpson
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
Talk about a disappearing act. Nicholas Berg scarcely had 15 minutes of fame. His shooting star appeared suddenly on news radar, and almost as suddenly was gone.
Unfortunately, in the process, he was murdered in cold blood. It was an act of barbarism heightened by the lens of the camera that recorded both the grisly images and horrific sounds of his painful, bloody and prolonged death.
Some say Nick Berg was killed like an animal. Not really. Those murderous Muslims would show more concern for the sheep they slaughter for food than they did for the human being viciously hacked to death in the name of their "religion of peace."
On the face of it, Berg was in Iraq looking for freelance work rebuilding communications towers. In the madhouse of today's Iraq – the chaotic mix of war, terrorism, survival and newly experienced freedom – there's money to be made rebuilding a country stolen blind, and beaten into submission by Saddam Hussein.
By all accounts, Berg wanted to "do good" and make a buck at the same time. Despite rumors of conspiracy and mystery as to his past and current connections with Muslims, nothing's been confirmed. It appears he was in the wrong place at the wrong time – a very wrong time, indeed.
Whether he knew his captors or whether there's more to his story than we now know – or may ever know – begs the question. Reality cannot be denied. Nick Berg was murdered – perhaps sacrificed – to denigrate the United States, to demean coalition forces and to defame the Bush administration.
It wasn't enough for terrorists to torture him physically and mentally and then kill him barbarically. No, they did it with the flourish of Islamic terrorism: aim a camera at it, shoot it in color, record the sound and use a prepared script with all the participants in full, but hooded, costume.
Michael Moore must have grit his teeth that they did it with such panache. He'll probably use the footage in his next America-bashing documentary, which no doubt will get him a standing ovation at Cannes.
Perhaps he'll make a deal to use the video of the Daniel Pearl's beheading. Maybe he'll find a way to use the video of the desecrated bodies of the four contractors ambushed and killed, their charred bodies hung from a bridge, surrounded by a cheering mob.
He could even use the finished product to raise money for the families of suicide bombers – then again, maybe not. Let me think about that.
Nick Berg's murder was broadcast on an Islamic website and broadcast worldwide. Most media here avoided the full horror, though the verbal description was chilling enough as was the sound – from pain to shrieks to gurgling to silence.
The media reported the atrocity, many assuming the killing was to avenge the prisoner abuse. But something was missing in the news coverage of the horrific death of an American civilian. Horror was missing. Outrage was missing. Anger was missing. They're still missing.
It was just another news story in a war on terrorism that has involved horrors never seen on the "American Street," but horrors that are a regular part of the "Arab Street."
It seems our media have taken the position that since beheadings (and the removal of other body parts) are a normal part of Islamic justice, Americans should just accept it and move on.
So move they did. The Berg story, which broke on May 11, was gone from headlines in barely a week. As I write this, we're told four of the killers are in custody – members of Saddam Hussein's Saddam Fedayeen and at least one is Saddam's relative. But, no big headlines.
However, headlines and pictures continue for the prison story.
Courts martial have already begun and those who, indeed, did participate are being charged and punished. And, there are considerations given to paying reparations to the "abused" prisoners!
But we've also learned many of the pictures were phony and many of the accusations false.
There isn't much attention being given to the fact that many of those prisoners were involved in plots to maim and kill American and other coalition forces, as well as innocent civilians – funny how that detail gets lost in the shuffle of the abuse headlines, which, in reality, have as their goal the destruction of the Bush administration and the belittling of the United States.
The ultimate tragedy is that the life and death of Nick Berg will just be a footnote when history is written, if Western historians do the writing.
In terrorist history, Nick Berg will be just a headline noting their justice against the infidel. Berg's murder was just another head in the barrel – literally – along with Daniel Pearl and nameless others.
But regardless of who writes history, innocent blood is on the hands of the killers and on the hands of the American media who decided that the on-camera murder of an American civilian was less important than attempting to destroy a conservative American presidency.
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