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Something odd about the dead guy
Nick Berg was "a small (telecommunications) business owner from Pennsylvania, who went to Iraq in December to help rebuild the countryâs infrastructure." Just picked up and left to go pull maintenance jobs around Iraq. On his own, not working for any corporation, which is very unusual."Friends and family of Berg said he was a "free spirit" who wanted to help others â working in Ghana, in one example..." "Mr Berg was apprehended by Iraqi officials near the northern city of Mosul on March 24, according to his father, who claims that he was then interrogated by FBI agents. Mr Berg was released on April 6, a day after his parents filed a lawsuit in federal court naming defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld as a defendant, and claiming that their son was being unlawfully held. They last heard from him on April 9." The US strongly suggested to him that he should leave the country. One month later he was kidnapped and killed. He had been "trying to leave Iraq", according to his parents, while just coincidentally hanging out near some of the most violent parts of the country. **Flashback** [From "The Israeli Spy Scandal"] Israel set up government subsidized telecommunications companies which operate in the United States. One of these companies is Amdocs, provides billing and directory assistance for 90% of the phone companies in the USA. Amdocsâ main computer center for billing is actually in Israel and allows those with access to do what intelligence agencies call "traffic analysis"; a picture of someoneâs activities based on a pattern of who they are calling and when. Another Israeli telecom company is Comverse Infosys, which subcontracts the installation of the automatic tapping equipment now built into every phone system in America. Comverse maintains its own connections to all this phone tapping equipment, insisting that it is for maintenance purposes only. However, Converse has been named as the most likely source for leaked information regarding telephone calls by law enforcement that derailed several investigations into not only espionage, but drug running by a major Israeli ecstacy ring as well. Yet another Israeli telecom company is Odigo, which provides the core message passing system for all the "Instant Message" services..." Posted by: Anonymoose 2004-05-12 |
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