This is old news now, but since no mainstream news sources have picked up on the story, I thought it was worth mentioning here.
Basically, there is evidence to suggest that Nick Berg was, in fact, beheaded in the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. Yes, the very same prison in which the American military has been torturing Iraqi citizens.
This conclusion was reached after analysis of the infamous beheading video.
Another suspicion that is doing the rounds is that the victim was actually already dead before he was beheaded. Before I heard this rumour, I had already wondered the same thing myself after watching the video, as there is no arterial gushing as the alleged killers cut into Berg’s neck. Rather, the blood simply pours out, as if not under pressure.
There are numerous other sources discussing the matter and reaching their own conclusions, some quite calm and rational, others a little more excitable and based on a lot of circumstantial evidence.
Anyway, as I said, the mainstream media seem to be staying away from this for some reason. There’s a lot of smoke there, but there’s some fire, too, and some of these findings should have you demanding answers to the the questions they raise.
look, I hate bush as much as anyone, but don’t let politics turn you into a complete and utter dipshit. seriously.
Whether or not you or I believe that Nick Berg was beheaded in Abu Ghraib is immaterial.
The point I raised in this blog entry was simply that there was considerably widespread doubt at the time concerning the circumstances of Berg’s killing, and that the media were studiously failing to report this fact; let alone go so far as to actually analyse the evidence put forward by the conspiracy theorists.
These doubts and claims should have been reported in the media, if only to explain and debunk them. There were too many of them to ignore, and yet, that’s exactly what happened.