Reply #9: No, al Qaeda never claimed responsibility.

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I was reading on DU the night the video was released. I saw major portions of it, and I saw stills. That was the fakest beheading I've ever seen. It was obvious that the person was dead before their head was cut off.

Later theories, which make sense to me, indicate that the video was probably a montage of footage filmed at different times. The opening sequences, in which Berg is alive, relaxed, and sitting in a white plastic chair against a yellow wall, was probably filmed while he was detained by American forces in Abu Ghraib. He was clearly not in fear for his life.

The later sequences, when Berg is slumped on the floor, were probably filmed after he died. How did Berg really die? Perhaps he was accidentally killed during interrogation in Abu Ghraib, as so many others were. Perhaps he was released and murdered on the street. Perhaps he was killed by a bomb or gun fire.

It's clear to me that American forces - probably the paramilitary contractors that don't answer to to U. S. military forces - either killed Berg or recovered his dead body, and decided to stage a horrific "beheading" to upset Americans and "prove" that al Qaeda is operating in Iraq.

The people doing the "beheading" look and stand like Americans. Middle Easterners say that the cloths wrapped around their faces are wrapped all wrong. There is a shot of somebody's American military cap in the edge of a few frames.

The Berg beheading is a fraud perpetrated by Americans. The video is so fake it is obvious to anyone watching it. That's why the video is no longer available anywhere. It was disappeared so that nobody could debunk it any further.

Disclaimer: I'm not a conspiracy buff. I don't believe in alien abductions etc. I'm simply a middle-aged American who happened to be reading the internet the night this video was released, and I'm reporting what I saw. What I saw was a fraud. Period.