Look at this picture from the clip of the Nicholas Berg beheading. Discussing it with a friend, we concluded that there is something odd about it.
When the Japanese were taken, they were wearing the clothes in which they were kidnapped in. Why was Berg wearing Guantanamo Bay orange prison garb? We are told he disappeared after he left his hotel in Iraq, the day after he was released from an Iraqi prison.
Look at the sports shoes the “Iraqi kidnappers” are wearing. Americans wear sneakers. Iraqis usually do not (most wear sandals).
Look at how the “Iraqi kidnappers” are standing behind Berg. They are in a classic “at ease” American soldier position, legs apart.
Iraqi groups are usually a ragtag gang of misfits. The “Iraqi kidnappers” behind Berg are all wearing neat uniform garb.
Could it be that this beheading was orchestrated to divert the public’s attention from the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal?
Could it be that America killed their own and the dramatic way was for a political purpose?
Could it be…
English Words and Western Voices Heard on Nick Berg Beheading Video
Berg Decapitation was Filmed Inside Abu Ghraib
Yaw and Mog 
May 23, 2004 at 2:46 pm
Holy Capricorn One!
Well … if the Americans wanted to fake a video, they probably didn’t need to kill Berg. Wasn’t his body found without a head? It’s not like his grieving family is likely to fingerprint the corpse; they’ll just close the casket at his funeral.
Personally, I’ll accept the video as genuine; I’m not as much a sucker for conspiracy theories as I used to be. Like the man said, “Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity.”
May 23, 2004 at 3:37 pm
Glad to hear I’m not the only one who thinks it’s a bit odd. Something was just not right about the video and its timed release.
May 23, 2004 at 6:18 pm
Johnny, the video is genuine. The “Iraqi kidnappers” might not be… I think the beheading did take place for a political purpose.
By the way, if you saw the films made by journalists in Abu Ghraib, no one there was wearing orange prison suits.
The timing was perhaps to divert the public attention from getting angry with America to getting angry with Iraq. But it may have backfired instead.
American news groups “found” the Berg clip on an Arab site, but not Al-Jazeera. Hmmm…
I had previously talked about the chair in some political forums (it is not on this picture so I excluded it from here). It is an American military issue chair. Now why would an Iraqi group possess such a chair?