I put Middle Earth Journal in hiatus in May of 2008 and moved to Newshoggers.
I temporarily reopened Middle Earth Journal when Newshoggers shut it's doors but I was invited to Participate at The Moderate Voice so Middle Earth Journal is once again in hiatus.

Friday, May 14, 2004

Berg Death Video Phony?

From Pacific Views: Oddities in Snuff Film
Aljazeera has an article about the Berg beheading that purports to find some anomalies courtesy of the doubts of unnamed bloggers:


Even at first glance, internet bloggers were asking on Thursday why Nick Berg was wearing an orange jumpsuit – just like US prisoners wear.

...There are plenty of questions raised concerning the video too. The body is completely motionless even as the knife is brought to bear – not so much as an instinctive wriggle.

More graphically, some claim that cutting the throat's artery would cause a significant amount of blood to gush out. But little emerges and when the head was raised – not a drop of blood is seen to fall. ...


I haven't seen the video, and if I can help it, I won't. But if anyone cares to comment further, the floor is yours.

Here is the Aljazeera Link
It would appear that at the very least Berg was already dead when he was beheaded on the video. There is no other way to explain the lack of involuntary body movement and the lack of blood. From the Aljazeera Article:
However, the circumstances of the video release are also strange. A Reuters journalist in Dubai first named the Muntada al-Ansar al-Islami website as the source for the video – at www.al-ansar.biz.

Although the site has now been shut down, Aljazeera.net looked at the site within 90 minutes of the story breaking – and could find no such video footage.

But Fox News, CNN and the BBC were all able to download the footage from the Arabic-only website and report the story within the hour.

The timing is also questioned. Many questions here.




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