Berg video gefilmd in Abu Ghraib

[Henk Elegeert]

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Hein van Meeteren wrote:

> At 09:51 22-05-2004 +0200, Henk Elegeert wrote:
>
>> Kan *de* video maar niet vinden. Wel eentje tot het
>> moment dat (echt) luguber schijnt te worden. Vreemd
>> toch?
>
> Inderdaad, Henk, als JIJ het al niet kan vinden (je was
> bij DB.NL onze opzoek expert...:-)

:)

 > dan vraag ik me af of
> die video (nog) wel bestaat.... Is er UBERHAUPT ooit een
> video geweest waarop de hèle onthoofding staat?

Ik heb um niet gezien.

 > Volgens
> Atzlan wel, want die heeft de band naar een Mexicaanse
> medicus gestuurd die verklaarde dat de onthoofding NIET
> kon hebben plaatsgevonden, aangezien het opensnijden van
> een halslagader onder normale condities een onstopbare
> fontein aan bloed veroorzaakt, terwijl hier geen druppel
> bloed was te zien....

Kijk, nog steeds geen duidelijkheid.

> Ik ga ook eens dieper graven in
> mijn vrije minuutjes...

Oke.
Vond ondertussen deze:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1222362,00.html
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Beheading suspects
'led by Saddam's nephew'

"
Beheading suspects 'led by Saddam's nephew'

Luke Harding in Baghdad
Saturday May 22, 2004
The Guardian

The mystery of who killed Nick Berg, the freelance
contractor beheaded on video, took a new twist last night
when Iraqi police claimed they had arrested four suspects
with links to Saddam Hussein's family.

Iraqi security officials said Berg's alleged killers were
part of a group led by a close relative of Saddam - his
nephew Yasser al-Sabawi.

The men were seized a week ago after a tip-off, they said.
All were former members of the Fedayeen Saddam, the para
military group notorious for its loyalty to Iraq's ex-president.

But last night the US military spokesman, Brigadier General
Mark Kimmitt, said American forces had arrested four men
linked to the Berg case after a raid in Baghdad. Two had
been released and two were still being questioned.

He said: '"I don't know their prior affiliations or prior
organisations. We have some intelligence that would suggest
they have knowledge, perhaps some culpability."

It was not clear whether the two raids were related. The
contradictory revelations add to the confusion in the
circumstances surrounding the kidnapping and execution of
Berg, who disappeared after checking out of his Baghdad
hotel on April 10.

In a video released last week Berg is shown sitting in an
orange jumpsuit in front of five masked and armed men. One
of them declares that his killing is in revenge for the
abuse of prisoners by US guards at Abu Ghraib. The same man
then draws a long knife and cuts off Berg's head.

The CIA claimed there was a "high probability" that Abu
Musab al-Zaqawi, a Jordanian extremist with links to
al-Qaida, was the masked man who beheaded Berg in a murder
recorded and broadcast over the internet.

Yesterday, however, the trail appeared to lead instead to
Saddam's hometown of Tikrit. Iraqi officials said the men
had been arrested in Salaheddin province, which includes
Tikrit, shortly after Berg's headless body was dumped last
week near a Baghdad flyover.

Al-Sabawi was not among those arrested, the Iraqi official
said. Police intelligence agents seized the men as they
arrived to "plot other major operations", the officer told
the Associated Press, without elaborating.

Four suspects had arrived early for the 7pm meeting and were
inside the house, waiting for a fifth associate who escaped
arrest, he said.

The Iraqi police appear to have done a poor job of
protecting their informant, who was killed by unidentified
gunmen the following day, the official admitted. Police
seized weapons and explosives at the scene. Last night the
suspects were believed to be still in Iraqi hands.

The case is extremely sensitive, with news of the apparent
arrests leaking after days of rumours.

The uncertainty surrounding Berg's kidnapping intensified
after US officials confirmed the FBI had questioned him
three times after his arrest in the northern city of Mosul.

US occupation authorities have denied he was ever in
American custody during his two weeks in detention there.
But this week Berg's parents released an email from an
American diplomat which confirmed he had been held by the US
military and was "safe".

After his release Berg returned to Baghdad, shrugged off the
episode in conversations with friends, telling them he
planned to return home to the US after a holiday in Turkey.

He vanished three days later while apparently on the way to
Baghdad airport.
"

Henk Elegeert

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