Berg was investigated for links to terrorism, Ashcroft says

[Lori Price CLG]

Berg was investigated for links to terrorism, Ashcroft says

Attorney General John Ashcroft said Friday that FBI agents investigated slain American Nicholas Berg for ties to terrorism, but found no such links.

Ashcroft's remarks came a day after other officials revealed that Berg was held for nearly two weeks in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul to give FBI agents time to investigate a possible link between the murdered 26-year-old and accused Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. FBI agents had interviewed Berg in 2002 after an e-mail address he'd used was traced to Moussaoui.

"The suggestion that Mr. Berg was in some way involved in terrorist activity or may have been linked, in some way involved, in terrorist activity is a suggestion that we do not have any ability to support, and we do not believe is a valid one," Ashcroft told reporters on Friday.

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[robbedvoter]

1. Already slandered in Daily News (+ wingnut places)

Berg, Al Qaeda linked before

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/193331p-166984c.html

By JAMES GORDON MEEK in Washington
and TRACY CONNOR in New York
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS


Zacarias Moussaoui

Berg
In a bizarre coincidence, Nick Berg crossed paths with Al Qaeda years before its henchmen beheaded him, when his E-mail and password wound up in the hands of 9/11 suspect Zacarias Moussaoui.

It happened in 1999, when Berg was at the University of Oklahoma and Moussaoui was enrolled at a nearby flight school, allegedly training to be an Al Qaeda hijacker.

After Moussaoui came under scrutiny in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, the FBI discovered he had Berg's university E-mail password.

[MikeG]

2. How many terrorists has Asscrack found?

[Lori Price CLG]

4. Just Bush, as far as I know...

AshKKKroft has found Dictator Bush, and his entire terrorist team, who need to be tried for treason...
-Lori Price

[maddezmom]

3. must be Friday...it's news dump time

and of course the obligitory...we will hunt down his killers. Oh yes and the FBI, the ones that may have been able to save his life are leading the investigation. :wtf:

[w13rd0]

5. I'm sure his killers...

...will be put in a cell with the Anthrax mailer...

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

6. The poor man hasn't been buried for a day...ASSCROFT can just go to

hell. He has no shame.

[teryang]

7. Traveling without documentation?

Does this mean Berg didn't have a passport? That is rather unbelievable.

Let's see, if I send an email to microsoft or eBay, maybe I'll be linked to everyone else in the world who ever sent them an email.

My government didn't confine him, they just ordered their subordinates to do it. Attorney asscraft has no understanding of the concept of agency? I'll take this article as admission of deliberate falsehood and the creating of another.