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Berg's E-Mails Depict Dangerous Travels
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| Contributor | Liberal |
| Last Edited | Liberal May 13, 2004 12:47pm |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - Guardian |
| News Date | Thursday, May 13, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The independent businessman who was beheaded in Iraq wrote colorful e-mails to family and friends at home, foreign dispatches that showed a 26-year-old with limited Arabic skills traveling solo through dangerous parts of the country.
The January e-mails, in what now seem to be chilling references, also describe Nicholas Berg's work near the Abu Ghraib prison - ``a notorious prison for Army and political prisoners,'' he wrote - and his brief detention by Iraqi police.
His killers cited the abuse of prisoners by U.S. personnel at Abu Ghraib as the reason for Berg's killing. The abuse was made public months after Berg wrote the e-mail.
Berg's body arrived in the United States on Wednesday, and a private memorial was planned Friday in suburban West Chester, said funeral director Carl Goldstein. A stream of well-wishers left dozens of flowers at the Bergs' home.
Nicholas Berg, the owner of a small communications company, first worked in Iraq in December and January.
He returned in March and was detained by Iraqi police working under U.S. authority - preventing him from safely leaving the country, his family contends.
In Baghdad on Wednesday, Dan Senor, spokesman for the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority, said that to his knowledge, Berg ``was at no time under the jurisdiction or detention of coalition forces.'' Senor would not specify why Iraqi police, who generally take direction from coalition authorities, had arrested and held him. He said the investigation was continuing.
The FBI warned Berg shortly before his disappearance that Iraq was too volatile a place for unprotected American civilians but he turned down a State Department offer to fly him home, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
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