Ubu to Bin Laden: "Those prison photos have put me in deep doo-doo.
I need your help again. My guys in Iraq have
an American Jewish nogoodnik who would make
a pretty picture."Bin Laden to Al Zarqawi: "Our Friend needs image-assistance. His
people have a package ready."Al Zarqawi to Bin Laden: "Mission accomplished."
Bin Laden to Ubu: "Well we did it, Bushbaby. See you in October."
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things."
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
I'm struck by the fact that we got to know about a few mysterious circumstances (see, for instance, Robert H. Reid's AP story "Questions Surround Young American Shown Decapitated in Video," May 12, 2004) of the last days of Nick Berg only after his death: Nick Berg being held in US custody for 13 days (which the government now oddly denies), the FBI's visit to Nick's father Michael Berg, the Bergs suing the government in federal court on April 5th, Nick being released on April 6th, the Berg family losing contact with Nick on April 9th (which is more than a month ago), Nick being "last in contact with U.S. officials in Baghdad on April 10" (Reid, May 12, 2004). Shouldn't we have heard about Nick Berg's disappearance about a month ago, rather than just now, when it's too late? There are so many newsworthy elements here, which the US media failed to investigate and expose in time to save Berg's life.
The contrast between our lack of knowledge about Nick Berg and intensive coverage of Japanese, Korean, Italian, Russian, and other hostages (in their own national media, but also in the international media) from the beginning to the end (be it death or release) of their captivity is very striking. . . .
The rest of the posting at <http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/05/mysterious-death-of-nick-berg.html>. -- Yoshie
* Critical Montages: <http://montages.blogspot.com/> * Bring Them Home Now! <http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/> * Calendars of Events in Columbus: <http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/calendar.html>, <http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php>, & <http://www.cpanews.org/> * Student International Forum: <http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/> * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osudivest.org/> * Al-Awda-Ohio: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio> * Solidarity: <http://www.solidarity-us.org/>
