The horror of Nick Berg’s beheading is perhaps best expressed in the bizarre conspiracy theories that people are taking solace in to convince themselves that he wasn’t just a random victom of brutality and hate. Within the past 24 hours, I’ve witnessed a discussion among left leaning people who are speculating on whether or not the execution was somehow staged to distract the American people from the atrocities at Abu Ghraib. I could try to explain these theories, but I honestly don’t understand them. By the same token, this morning I heard people talking about how Berg was perhaps an al-Qaeda sympathizer who was executed because he made the mistake of trusting the terrorists. I have no idea whether there’s any truth to these theories, but I suspect that the people who are coming up with them don’t know either. Apparently the idea that Nick Berg was what people said he was, a businessman who was on his way out of Iraq when he was abducted by terrorists, is just too much to take.
The case of Nick Berg
The horror of Nick Berg’s beheading is perhaps best expressed in the bizarre conspiracy theories that people are taking solace in to convince themselves that he wasn’t just a random victom of brutality and hate. Within the past 24 hours, I’ve witnessed a discussion among left leaning people who are speculating on whether or not the execution was somehow staged to distract the American people from the atrocities at Abu Ghraib. I could try to explain these theories, but I honestly don’t understand them. By the same token, this morning I heard people talking about how Berg was perhaps an al-Qaeda sympathizer who was executed because he made the mistake of trusting the terrorists. I have no idea whether there’s any truth to these theories, but I suspect that the people who are coming up with them don’t know either. Apparently the idea that Nick Berg was what people said he was, a businessman who was on his way out of Iraq when he was abducted by terrorists, is just too much to take.
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