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Berg offered a ride home by US but refused it!
The U.S. government warned Nicholas Berg (search) to leave Iraq and offered him a flight out of the country, a month before his grisly beheading was broadcast on an Al Qaeda (search)-linked Web site, officials said. ... (April 10 or so) an American diplomat offered to put him on a flight to Jordan, State Department spokeswoman Kelly Shannon said. But Berg told the diplomat he "planned to travel overland to Kuwait and would call (his) family from there," Shannon said. ... Two e-mails he sent to his family and friends show he traveled widely and unguarded throughout Iraq, an unsafe practice rarely done by Westerners. Shortly before Bergâs disappearance, he was warned by the FBI that Iraq was too volatile a place for unprotected American civilians and that he could be harmed, a senior FBI official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Wednesday. Looks like his Dad owes Bush an apology. WOnder if he has enouhg class to direct his bile at those really responsible - the ones who sawed his sonâs head off with a knife. Posted by: OldSpook 2004-05-14 |
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