Well, that´s definitelly strange! Seems to me that there´s a whole lot about this story that we have no clue about. Could it be that Berg was an operative, and that´s why the Feds held him for so long? And that maybe, just maybe, the guys who beheaded him thought he had turn informant on them?
What we first thought to be a totally unrelated set of incidents might not be so unrelated after all. The thing is that most people won´t see past the beheading and won´t even bother to search for any other clues, and this whole thing will just slip into oblivion, along with all the other unresolved cases.

Let´s see if we can put the pieces together.

First, and believing this Al Qaeda link, Nick Berg gets into contact with Al Qaeda operatives. Why? We don´t know. Was he muslim? Was he in favour of Al Qaeda´s reivindications? Let´s get back on that later.
Then a war starts, Nick travels to Iraq a couple of times, and virtually disapeers from sight for a couple of years.
Then the FBI gets to him, holds him for two weeks without cause, the family files a formal complaint, and then the FBI alleges to have let him go, in a very dangerous moment when hostages are being taken left and right.
And the day after, he is supposedlly captured by insurgents/Al Qaeda. Then turns up dead, his head missing, after a couple of weeks in captivity.
Another coincidence is that he had been working at Abu Ghraib, fixing an antenna or something, during the period when the abuses suposed to take place. And just a few days after the Abu Ghraib scandall breaks out, a video of him being beheaded supposedly by Zarkawi surfaces. And he is wearing an orange jumpsuit, exactly like the ones awarded at the prison to the detainees. All very strange coincidences, or not coincidences at all.
It all seems to revolve around that prison.
It´s definetlly a mistery worth studying. Where´s Sherlock Holmes when you need him?
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