Reply #69: The author, JASON STRAZIUSO, also wrote quite a few Berg stories

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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nicholas_Berg_(External_Links)

I think it's pretty fishy. Esp. when there is so much fake journalism being paid for.

Has the student been on the Today show, yet? It might seem a little more believeable if he were actually out there being interviewed.


Look at all the stories Jason (or anonymous AP) posted on this:

Fla. Boy Who Traveled to Iraq Flying Home

Timeline of U.S. Teen's Journey to Iraq

Fla. Boy Who Went to Iraq on His Way Home

AP: U.S. Teen Takes Perilous Trip to Iraq

AP: U.S. Teen Runs Off to Iraq by Himself

Essay by U.S. Teen Who Went to Iraq

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/section.cfm?id=93&tmpl=intl_sub


From another of Jason's AP articles - lots of pro-Bush propaganda thrown in:

Car bomb explodes outside children's hospital; Baghdad governor targeted
05:00:15 EST Dec 19, 2005

JASON STRAZIUSO

...In a speech Sunday, U.S. President George W. Bush praised the vote and warned against a pullout of U.S. forces.

Hours before Bush spoke, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney made a surprise visit to Baghdad, saying the election's strong turnout had brought Iraq closer to taking control of its own security. But Cheney also cautioned against a rapid U.S. withdrawal.

Bush said last week's voting would not end violence in Iraq but "means that America has an ally of growing strength in the fight against terror." He warned that a U.S. troop pullout would "signal to the world that America cannot be trusted to keep its word."

"We would hand Iraq over to enemies who have pledged to attack us, and the global terrorist movement would be emboldened and more dangerous than ever before," he said.

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/051219/w121922.html


And posted 6 hours later:

Biological weapons expert among detainees released from jail in Iraq
11:15:03 EST Dec 19, 2005

JASON STRAZIUSO

BAGHDAD (AP) - About 24 former top officials in Saddam Hussein's regime, including a biological weapons expert dubbed by the Pentagon as Dr. Germ, have been released from jail, while a militant group released a video Monday of what it said was the killing of an American hostage....

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/051219/w121940.html