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  •  I think kos' point (none / 0)

    is that Berg's killers would have done it regardless. The prison torture revenge thing is just something they're using to create a convenient storyline

    by dacarlton on Tue May 11, 2004 at 09:36:24 PM PDT

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    •  hard to swallow (none / 1)

      openly killing the innocent is bad press.  This is not like 9/11.  Nobody ever took credit for that.  The only way this works for Al-Qaida is if it fulfills a searching desire among the public.

      by Jeff Simpson on Tue May 11, 2004 at 09:41:25 PM PDT

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      •  yeah, on second thought (none / 1)

        what you suggest sounds a lot more reasonable. Though maybe the torture-revenge was the reason for videotaping his murder (and doing it in a particularly brutal manner). The murder itself they were certainly motivated to do anyway.

        by dacarlton on Tue May 11, 2004 at 09:47:29 PM PDT

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      •  Unfortunately, (none / 0)

        it works for Bush.  The decapitation incident is enough to turn thousands of undecideds toward Bush because there is a tendency to believe that he will be "tough on terrorists".  Never mind that we haven't really caught any, except the Hussein family.... people just think that way.  I wonder if the perpetrators of this crime thought about that before they murdered Nick Berg..... they may have just assured another 4 years of Bush, and maybe that's exactly what they want. Who knows with these people?

        I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. Will Rogers.

        by tomathawl on Wed May 12, 2004 at 08:28:17 AM PDT

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