al-Zarqawi got his wig split...

[Word to Everything]

IMO, they should let Berg's dad decapatate the corpse.

Beheaded man's father: Revenge breeds revenge
Michael Berg talks about the death of his son and al-Zarqawi

Thursday, June 8, 2006; Posted: 12:58 p.m. EDT (16:58 GMT)

(CNN) -- The U.S.-led coalition's No. 1 wanted man in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -- who conducted a campaign of insurgency bombings, beheadings and killings of Americans and Iraqi civilians -- was killed in a U.S. airstrike.

A gruesome video was posted on Islamic Web sites in May, 2004, depicting a man believed to be al-Zarqawi beheading Nicholas Berg, an American businessman who was working in Iraq.

CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien talks to Nicholas Berg's father, Michael Berg, by phone from Wilmington, Delaware, for his reaction to the news.

O'BRIEN: Mr. Berg, thank you for talking with us again. It's nice to have an opportunity to talk to you. Of course, I'm curious to know your reaction, as it is now confirmed that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the man who is widely credited and blamed for killing your son, Nicholas, is dead.

MICHAEL BERG: Well, my reaction is I'm sorry whenever any human being dies. Zarqawi is a human being. He has a family who are reacting just as my family reacted when Nick was killed, and I feel bad for that. (Watch video of the two bombs falling on al-Zarqawi -- 2:00)

I feel doubly bad, though, because Zarqawi is also a political figure, and his death will re-ignite yet another wave of revenge, and revenge is something that I do not follow, that I do want ask for, that I do not wish for against anybody. And it can't end the cycle. As long as people use violence to combat violence, we will always have violence.

O'BRIEN: I have to say, sir, I'm surprised. I know how devastated you and your family were, frankly, when Nick was killed in such a horrible, and brutal and public way.

BERG: Well, you shouldn't be surprised, because I have never indicated anything but forgiveness and peace in any interview on the air.

O'BRIEN: No, no. And we have spoken before, and I'm well aware of that. But at some point, one would think, is there a moment when you say, 'I'm glad he's dead, the man who killed my son'?

BERG: No. How can a human being be glad that another human being is dead?

O'BRIEN: There have been family members who have weighed in, victims, who've said that they don't think he's a martyr in heaven, that they think, frankly, he went straight to hell ...

You know, you talked about the fact that he's become a political figure. Are you concerned that he becomes a martyr and a hero and, in fact, invigorates the insurgency in Iraq?

BERG: Of course. When Nick was killed, I felt that I had nothing left to lose. I'm a pacifist, so I wasn't going out murdering people. But I am -- was not a risk-taking person, and yet now I've done things that have endangered me tremendously.

I've been shot at. I've been showed horrible pictures. I've been called all kinds of names and threatened by all kinds of people, and yet I feel that I have nothing left to lose, so I do those things.

Now, take someone who in 1991, who maybe had their family killed by an American bomb, their support system whisked away from them, someone who, instead of being 59, as I was when Nick died, was 5-years-old or 10-years-old. And then if I were that person, might I not learn how to fly a plane into a building or strap a bag of bombs to my back?

That's what is happening every time we kill an Iraqi, every time we kill anyone, we are creating a large number of people who are going to want vengeance. And, you know, when are we ever going to learn that that doesn't work?

O'BRIEN: There's an alternate reading, which would say at some point, Iraqis will say the insurgency is not OK -- that they'll be inspired by the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the sense of he was turned in, for example, we believe by his own No. 2, No. 3 leadership in his ranks.

And, that's actually them saying we do not want this kind of violence in our country. Experts whom we've spoken to this morning have said this is a critical moment where Iraqis need to figure out which direction the country is going to go. That would be an alternate reading to the scenario you're pointing to. (Watch how Iraqi leaders cheered after learning about al-Zarqawi's death -- 4:31)

BERG: Yes, well, I don't believe that scenario, because every time news of new atrocities committed by Americans in Iraq becomes public, more and more of the everyday Iraqi people who tried to hold out, who tried to be peaceful people lose it and join -- what we call the insurgency, and what I call the resistance, against the occupation of one sovereign nation.

O'BRIEN: There's a theory that a struggle for democracy, you know...

BERG: Democracy? Come on, you can't really believe that that's a democracy there when the people who are running the elections are holding guns. That's not democracy.

O'BRIEN: There's a theory that as they try to form some kind of government, that it's going to be brutal, it's going to be bloody, there's going to be loss, and that's the history of many countries -- and that's just what a lot of people pay for what they believe will be better than what they had under Saddam Hussein.

BERG: Well, you know, I'm not saying Saddam Hussein was a good man, but he's no worse than George Bush. Saddam Hussein didn't pull the trigger, didn't commit the rapes. Neither did George Bush. But both men are responsible for them under their reigns of terror.

I don't buy that. Iraq did not have al Qaeda in it. Al Qaeda supposedly killed my son.

Under Saddam Hussein, no al Qaeda. Under George Bush, al Qaeda.

Under Saddam Hussein, relative stability. Under George Bush, instability.

Under Saddam Hussein, about 30,000 deaths a year. Under George Bush, about 60,000 deaths a year. I don't get it. Why is it better to have George Bush the king of Iraq rather than Saddam Hussein?

O'BRIEN: Michael Berg is the father of Nicholas Berg, the young man, the young businessman who was beheaded so brutally in Iraq back in May of 2004.



Runs away laughing 

[Hatesrats™]

Danm!!! Berg's dad just sooned The U.S Effort's....

[M Dogg™]

Ya' know. Gaw DAMN!!!!!!!!!! I wish I had an audio, I'd put that on my sig and you can click. Where's CWalker at now.

[Word to Everything]

On April 10, 2006, the Washington Post reported that the U.S. military has indeed been conducting a major propaganda offensive designed to exaggerate Zarqawi's role in the Iraqi insurgency. Gen. Mark Kimmitt says of the propaganda campaign that there "was no attempt to manipulate the press." In an internal briefing, Kimmitt is quoted as stating, "The Zarqawi PSYOP program is the most successful information campaign to date." The main goal of the propaganda campaign seems to have been to exacerbate a rift between insurgent forces in Iraq, but intelligence experts worry that it has actually enhanced Zarqawi's influence.

Col. Derek Harvey, "who served as a military intelligence officer in Iraq and then was one of the top officers handling Iraq intelligence issues on the staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff," warned an Army meeting in 2004 that "Our own focus on Zarqawi has enlarged his caricature, if you will -- made him more important than he really is, in some ways." While Pentagon spokespersons state unequivocally that PSYOPs may not be used to influence American citizens, there is little question that the information disseminated through the program has found its way into American media sources. The Post also notes that "One briefing slide about U.S. "strategic communications" in Iraq, prepared for Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the top U.S. commander in Iraq, describes the "home audience" as one of six major targets of the American side of the war."

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSYOP

sad how the US tries to manipulate and brainwash their own citizens.

fuck them, sad is me going bald 

[Real American]

After reading that interview, Berg's dad is certifiably insane..........

[Don Jacob]

good another fuckin rag head is dead

[7even]

I understand where Berg is coming from. America is the country that really is the reason for his son's death, and he knows it.

[J Bananas]

buck buck bitches

[Real American]

I understand where Berg is coming from. America is the country that really is the reason for his son's death, and he knows it.

Yeah man you are totally right, it is all America's fault. Zarqawi sawing off his son's head had absolutely nothing to do with it.   

You are an idiot, 7even....

[J Bananas]

I understand where Berg is coming from. America is the country that really is the reason for his son's death, and he knows it.

just like mcdonalds is the reason emotionally unbalanced girls from the south are fat fucks

[Ant]

After reading that interview, Berg's dad is certifiably insane..........

Then so was Jesus.

[ZILLA THA GOODFELLA]

good news .iraqis deserve a peaceful country

oh yes, this incident is going to bring soooo much peace.

10 more will replace this guy and will only get stronger.

[Timmeeeehh]

One thing I don't get.. They killed em and all, ok, but according to the news they threw like 2 superbombs on the man's head. Ok, cool, now we sure he's dead. BUT howcome all the pics of him dead are where he's 100% intact, I mean, when you got such bombs on ya head you're happy to find a lil snippet of the man. Those bombs make holes of like 20-40 meters deep.

[7even]

One thing I don't get.. They killed em and all, ok, but according to the news they threw like 2 superbombs on the man's head. Ok, cool, now we sure he's dead. BUT howcome all the pics of him dead are where he's 100% intact, I mean, when you got such bombs on ya head you're happy to find a lil snippet of the man. Those bombs make holes of like 20-40 meters deep.

It's a fraud, obviously. The US just needs some good publicity.

[Real American]

One thing I don't get.. They killed em and all, ok, but according to the news they threw like 2 superbombs on the man's head. Ok, cool, now we sure he's dead. BUT howcome all the pics of him dead are where he's 100% intact, I mean, when you got such bombs on ya head you're happy to find a lil snippet of the man. Those bombs make holes of like 20-40 meters deep.

It's a fraud, obviously. The US just needs some good publicity.

The more you post the dumber you come off. Is everyone in Germany as idiotic as you?