Nick Berg's head as a political football?
The latest news is that they've made arrests in the abduction... last week. (The "they" being Iraqi police.)
The story is that those arrested were "former members of Saddam Hussein’s Fedayeen paramilitary organization", and were led by Saddam's nephew, Yasser al-Sabawi, though he wasn't arrested. Further, they are supposed to have abducted Berg, but then handed him over to the other group, who executed him.
It's such a tangle.
That some will rush to use this as "proof" of a connection between Saddam Hussein and anyone in al-Qaida, bothers me, but people can be moronic. Just consider how many people think there's some link between Saddam Hussein and the 9/11 attacks. That people would believe that over essentially nothing (nothing more than insinuations from President Bush), one would think that the country where most of the 9/11 terrorists came from (either initially or when entering the US) would have been considered a slam dunk conspirator... but, no, following actual evidence into Saudi Arabia wouldn't be convenient, eh?
Almost as distressing is all the intrigue concerning who held Nick Berg, when, and why. As you'll see near the bottom of the linked article above, John Ashcroft is not only standing by the statement that US forces never held Berg, but that not only did he decline safe passage out of the country but "he refused government offers to advise his family and friends of his status.”
There's something very peculiar in all this. Whether it's an administration cover-up or Berg had an alternate agenda in Iraq... I wonder if we'll ever know the truth? If I had more time to dig into this I'd be tempted to, especially with respect to coming up with as detailed a timeline as possible.
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