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He was beheaded in Iraq, but I don't know what the significance of his death was. I thought it was a regular Japanese style beheading, but this was the most atrocious murder I have ever seen in my life. I'm not squeemish but viewing this video I could not hold my stomach. It's been haunting me for 3 days now.
 

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Yet because of the "internet gambling bill' millions will put their families at risk of the same treatment by voting democratic.....have you measured your daughters for a burka yet????
 

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ProPokerPlayer said:
Yet because of the "internet gambling bill' millions will put their families at risk of the same treatment by voting democratic.....have you measured your daughters for a burka yet????
Do you know who he was? Was he a visitor, reporter, what?
And what's a burka?
 

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AngleBroom said:
Do you know who he was? Was he a visitor, reporter, what?
And what's a burka?

Berg was a businessman who was in Iraq trying to make some money in the post war reconstruction. His only "significance" was being American in the wrong place at the wrong time. And a burka is the head/body covering that Muslim women wear......
 

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He was beheaded in Iraq, but I don't know what the significance of his death was. I thought it was a regular Japanese style beheading, but this was the most atrocious murder I have ever seen in my life. I'm not squeemish but viewing this video I could not hold my stomach. It's been haunting me for 3 days now.

I watched that video on ogrish awhile ago and it screwed me up
also. I will also admit i felt like crap for awhile after watching it.
I am a horror movie and fangoria afficionado, but that video just
shouldn't have been.
 

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Thanks Da1 that clears it up. I can tell he probably thought he was just being used as propaganda(which he was). He was too calm to imagine what they had in store for him.
 

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AngleBroom said:
Thanks Da1 that clears it up. I can tell he probably thought he was just being used as propaganda(which he was). He was too calm to imagine what they had in store for him.

Yeah--at the beginning of the video they make him give his name and hometown which I guess had him thinking they were just going to show him on TV to prove they had him and maybe force him to make some statement denouncing the US....
 

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a society in which women played a prominent role in the health professions, in government, and in teaching, has been replaced by one where:
..women are regularly and brutally beaten for walking on the street without a male chaperone or without a garment (burqa) that covers their bodies from head to toe;
  • women who once contributed to the support of their families have become destitute, and must now beg because they are forbidden from working;
  • women cannot obtain health care from many facilities and cannot be examined by a male doctor without a chaperone; yet female doctors and nurses are severely restricted from practicing, and many have fled the country; and
  • schools for women and girls have closed their doors, with the exception of Qur'anic training for girls under eight, leaving the female population hopeless about their futures.
 

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I watched that video on ogrish awhile ago and it screwed me up
also. I will also admit i felt like crap for awhile after watching it.
I am a horror movie and fangoria afficionado, but that video just
shouldn't have been.
I know exactly what you're saying. I can't shake it!!! I had the option to stop it while they were reading the propaganda and did, but curiosity got the better of me, and I wish I had never seen it. I've seen every faces of death video and not had the same reaction as I did to this murder.
 

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Im not a head case, but it's a little therapeutic to talk about it. Helps get it out of my head.
 

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I think the worst part about it is it seemed for some time he did struggle while the were holding him down, those people will never change, people instilled with violence.
 

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wow, great find passingthewind. I think I agree with this. Though I was completely grossed out, I did wonder this one myself:
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][COLOR=#80000]10] No blood spurts from his neck as he is supposed to be dying. The amount of blood on the floor is much smaller than it should have been. He should have died from bleeding out and this would have resulted in a couple of liters of blood spurting from his neck. According to medical experts he should have died from bleeding out. Even if his spine was severed quickly he should have continued to bleed until his heart ran out of blood; this was the reason for having straw under the guillotines during the French revolution. These heads would also remain animated for some time. [/COLOR][/FONT]
 

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I watched some special about Daniel Pearl last night, they spoke about how the people who captured him killed him. They beheaded him and then cut him up into 10 different pieces before disposing of his body in bags and burying them.

I may have seen the Nick Berg video but I don't wish I see the video again. Truly sad and disgusting.
 

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Saw some pics of it, and don't want to see the video. Very sad and really feel for the parents, Just cannot imagine for them.

One question was what the HELL was this kid doing traveling around (alone) a country that is so unstable and and has people with so much hatre towards Americans. Looking for business, come on lets use some common sense. Probally why there is so many questions about this whole, its just plain stupid.
 

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