Nick Berg was murdered in 2004
In 2004 I was a motivated patriot borderline jingoist working in the field of Information Technology for a niche handbell business concern. My work was easy but very busy and it involved a lot of equipment change outs and Unix support and I tried to do a good job for the years I was there. |
He was abducted and murdered by beheading allegedly by Jordanian national Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a muslim insurgent who we subsequently took out by air strike in October of that same year.
Allegedly this murder of Mr Berg was in retribution for the very ill advised Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal in which Mr Berg had no involvement.
It seems that United States Army members tortured and otherwise abused Iraqi prisoners. Later it has been speculated that those actually punished, though perpetrators, were not the individuals giving the orders.
A video of the beheading of Nicholas Berg was released on the internet. This is said to have been from London to a Malaysian hosted page owned by the Islamist organization Muntada al-Ansar. It was an infuriating piece of travesty whereby an innocent was punished for the transgressions of others.
It epitomizes the militant muslim in my mind.