며칠전 참수장면이 공개된 니콜라스 버그씨의 부모는 아들의 죽음에 미국 정부도 일부 책임이 있다고 비난하고 있습니다. 니콜라스가 유대교인이라는 것은 알려져 있죠.(오마이뉴스 참조) 뭔가 석연치 않군요. 다음은 www.democracynow.org에서 퍼온 것입니다. 5/12 American Contractor Beheaded in Iraq U.S. and Iraqi leaders have vowed to track down the men who captured and beheaded a 26-year-old American contractor from Philadelphia named Nicholas Berg. A video of the beheading appeared on a website Tuesday connected to Al Qaeda. The killers said the murder was revenge for the prison abuse of Iraqis taking place at the Abu Ghraib prison. The video captures Berg saying "My name is Nick Berg, my father's name is Michael, my mother's name is Suzanne. I have a brother and sister, David and Sarah." The group that carried out the murder claimed it had ties to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. In a statement the group said "The worst is coming and, God willing, the tough days are still to come. You and your soldiers will regret the day that you touched the ground of Iraq."" Berg was working in Iraq as an independent businessman fixing communication antennas. He was last seen on April 9. He was originally scheduled to return home to the United States on March 30, but a week before his departure he was detained by Iraqi police at a checkpoint in Mosul and turned over to U.S. officials. He was held for 13 days though it remains unclear as to why. He was released on April 6, a day after his family filed a suit in federal court against the US charging that the US was illegally holding their son. Three days after his release he was to never be seen again. His decapitated body was found Saturday on a highway overpass in Baghdad. His father, Michael Berg, said Nicholas may still be alive if he had been allowed to leave the country on March 30 when he was scheduled to. He said "He was arrested and held without due process. The time he got out, the whole area was inflamed with violence." 5/13 Questions Still Unanswered In Case of Nicholas Berg The parents of the American businessman beheaded in Iraq and the U.S. government are in dispute over what happened to their son in the weeks before he was killed. A video showing the man, Nicholas Berg, being beheaded apparently by Islamic militants appeared on the Internet Tuesday. His parents have blamed the U.S. government in part for his death because their son was unable to return home as scheduled in late March because he was picked up by Iraqi officials and detained. His parents claim he was handed over to the US and detained for nearly two weeks. The US denies the charge but admits FBI agents visited Berg three times while he was in custody. It is still not known why he was detained, why he was questioned, and when he was abducted and killed. The Washington Post interviewed friends of Berg who said he may have been detained because he had an Israeli stamp on his passport and was suspected of being an Israeli spy. The U.S. is now saying it offered Berg a chance to leave the country but he declined. --- 연합뉴스에서도 비슷한 내용의 기사를 실었더군요. 오마이뉴스에서 "이라크에서 벌어지는 피의 보복전" 제하의 기사를 보면 옆에 박스기사로 올라와 있습니다.(한글 잘라 붙이기가 안되서 퍼오지는 못합니다.) 오늘자 democracy now에 의하면 이라크군과 미군은 버그를 이스라엘 스파이로 의심하고 있었다는 얘기가 있군요. 하지만 왜 불법으로 구금했는지는 여전히 알려지지 않고 있습니다.