posted on May 28, 2004 04:49:04 PM new
Moore has film of US hostage Berg
The contents of the interview with Mr Berg have not been disclosed
Film director Michael Moore says he has interview footage of slain US hostage Nick Berg that was not used in his anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11.
Moore, whose film won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes festival, said the footage was about 20 minutes long.
He said it would not be released to the media and that he was dealing privately with Mr Berg's family about it.
Mr Berg's killing shocked Americans after an Arabic-language website showed a video of him being beheaded.
Neither Moore nor his representatives would discuss the nature of the interview with Mr Berg, or its contents, the Associated Press news agency reported.
Mr Berg, 26, was known to be strongly in favour of the US-led war in Iraq.
AP said it had tried in vain to contact Mr Berg's parents at their home in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
'Revenge'
Mr Berg, a telecommunications worker, disappeared in Iraq in April.
His headless corpse was found on 9 May in Baghdad and days later a video of his decapitation appeared on an al-Qaeda-related website.
The hooded men who carried out the killing claimed they were avenging the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers at Abu Ghraib jail in Baghdad.
Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11 explores the Iraq war and alleges connections between President George W Bush and top Saudi families, including the Bin Ladens.
The documentary uses Moore's customary satirical style to accuse Mr Bush of stealing the presidential election in 2000, ignoring terrorism warnings before 11 September 2001 and fuelling fears of more attacks to secure Americans' support for the war in Iraq.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
posted on May 28, 2004 05:52:45 PM new
Need to correct that lead in to read, "Moore Supposedly has film".
"The Secret Service has announced it is doubling its protection for John Kerry. You can understand why — with two positions on every issue, he has twice as many people mad at him." —Jay Leno
posted on May 28, 2004 06:37:53 PM new
Lots of republicans like Bear1949 are desperate people. These desperate people will say anything or do anything to protect their failed leaders.
posted on May 28, 2004 08:33:42 PM new
No, what I read in the article 'Moore has film of US hostage Berg, but is only dealing privately with Bergs family' ok, but does he actually have more of this video, does this film have more in it, then the one the Arab news showed? Would this film help find out who did it?
All these questions, and shouldn't he be turning over this as evidence?
I don't think Bear was 'protecting a failed leader' Bear said:
Need to correct that lead in to read, "Moore Supposedly has film".
Because how does anyone actually know that Moore has a film, or more film or whatever?
posted on May 28, 2004 10:11:05 PM new
Near - I think you missed tis line
Neither Moore nor his representatives would discuss the nature of the interview with Mr Berg, or its contents, the Associated Press news agency reported.
Maybe not, but I took this to mean that he interviewed Berg for the film but that footage was not included in the film.
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posted on May 29, 2004 12:34:01 AM new
Berg's sister confused over Moore's taped interview
BY WILLIAM BUNCH
Knight Ridder Newspapers
PHILADELPHIA - (KRT) - The sister of Nick Berg, the contractor from the Philadelphia suburbs who was beheaded earlier this month in Iraq, says she's dumbfounded by reports that liberal icon Michael Moore had filmed an interview with her late brother for his new anti-war film.
"I'm very skeptical of this," said Sara Berg, a Virginia attorney whose brother's beheading sparked a global uproar.
But she said there was no way to confirm that Moore had sent a tape of the reported 20-minute interview to their parents' home in West Chester, as the filmmaker suggested in a statement Thursday, because the couple has been away.
Moore's acknowledgment that he had interview footage of Berg that had been shot - but not used - for his highly controversial "Fahrenheit 9/11" documentary may be the strangest twist yet in the increasingly weird saga of Berg and his Iraqi travels, which led to his slaying.
The initial story that touched off the controversy appeared Thursday on the online magazine Salon.com.
It said the interview took place in the United States late last year, before Berg, a radio-tower technician, made the first of two trips to Iraq seeking work there as a private contractor.
So, how would a completely unknown young wannabe contractor like Berg come to the attention of Moore, whose anti-President Bush screed "Dude, Where's My Country?" was the best-selling book in the nation at the time?
Stranger than that: Why would Moore or his crew interview Berg for "Fahrenheit 9/11" for 20 minutes, when Berg's family insists the slain contractor was pro-Bush and supported the American military action in Iraq?
The film, which just took top honors at the Cannes Film Festival, blasts Bush and shows graphic war footage from Iraq.
We may never know the answers, because Berg is dead and Moore says he has no plans to release the interview footage to the public.
"We have an interview with Nick Berg," Moore's terse statement said. "It was approximately 20 minutes long. We are not releasing it to the media. It is not in the film. We are dealing privately with the family."
Friends of Berg, the Henderson High School grad, say he was an adventurous, inventive and perhaps naive young man who simply wanted to help in the rebuilding of Iraq but disregarded safety warnings, traveling solo and in private taxis.
Berg was arrested by Iraqi police on March 24, held in custody for 13 days, and released - only to disappear again on April 10. His headless body was found on a Baghdad overpass on May 8, three days before the video of the decapitation was posted.
Despite some contradictory evidence, the CIA claims the execution was done by an al Qaeda terrorist, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Since then, some have questioned why Berg had been in Iraq, as well as some of his strange connections.
The FBI questioned Berg in 2002 to find out why his e-mail password had ended up with an Oklahoma terror suspect linked to al Qaeda terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui.
In Iraq, Berg partnered with an ex-Philadelphia Iraqi expatriate who'd been convicted in a Russian-exile crack-vial ring before becoming the highly visible leader of an anti-Saddam Hussein group backed by the Bush administration.
The two of are a Perfect example of why brothers and sisters shouldn’t have children
"The Secret Service has announced it is doubling its protection for John Kerry. You can understand why — with two positions on every issue, he has twice as many people mad at him." —Jay Leno
posted on May 29, 2004 01:24:40 AM newAuthor answers own question in story and Bear fails to bold It...
So, how would a completely unknown young wannabe contractor like Berg come to the attention of Moore, whose anti-President Bush screed "Dude, Where's My Country?" was the best-selling book in the nation at the time?
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The FBI questioned Berg in 2002 to find out why his e-mail password had ended up with an Oklahoma terror suspect linked to al Qaeda terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui.
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If I was doing a film on the same topic and found out about the Berg/Moussaoui situation I would sure as hell want some answers.
I notice Bear that you were uncharacteristically quiet in the thread questioning the authenticity of the events in the beheading video. Do you have no opinion on the matter?
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posted on May 29, 2004 11:00:17 AM new
DO I have an opinion on his beheading? Yes & you have already read it. Look under my posting for "War is Heck".
I also think Berg was dead before being beheaded. Namely because of his lack of movement during the actual event. I read an article (whick I can't find the link to at the moment) that goes into it in detail from a forensic profile.
"The Secret Service has announced it is doubling its protection for John Kerry. You can understand why — with two positions on every issue, he has twice as many people mad at him." —Jay Leno
posted on May 29, 2004 11:10:36 AM new
Bear - see the "Things that make you go hmmmm" which is about the video and its authenticity. Also check out the links that call many additional aspects other that just the question of whether he was already dead at the time into question.
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posted on May 29, 2004 03:22:05 PM new
fenix, your right, I did not read the original post correctly, and 'comphrended' it as Moore had more footage or film. Good thing Helen isn't here to comment on my reading comprhension
But with that said, and Bear and your exchanges, I still won't go and look at the video. I know the conspircacy theories abound out there, I don't know what happened. From what I have read, yes, I beleive he probably was dead before they beheaded him. Its a sad, sad thing.
