How do we even know it was Zarqawi in the Nick Berg beheading video?

[Philosoraptor]

All the men in that video wore hoods over their heads. Here's a hint: It was assumed.

My main point being, we should all stop instantly assuming what we see on t.v. is real.

And if it comes from Bush, or his media, it's probably bullshit.

THEY LIE ABOUT EVERYTHING, even when they don't have to.

[ima_sinnic]

1. that was the one their most transparent scams

everything about it, from the lackadaisical posture of the "militant Muslim terrorists" to the bloodless victim to the wrong accent of "Zarqawi" to the abnormal hiding of "Zarqawi's" face was a joke.

[Skittles]

2. didn't they find his passport at the scene

oh wait, that was a different propaganda stunt

[tulsakatz]

3. shortly after Berg died.........

I was reading some messages on a message board and one of the posters said.......so, if we already know that's Zarqawi, why is he wearing a mask?

It made sense to me.........which means, if a person is wearing a mask (or hood, in this case), they're doing it because they don't want anyone to know who he is!! And if we already knew it was Zarqawi, why was he wearing a mask?

[Philosoraptor]

4. Yet almost everyone accepted it as truth, as usual.

I never did of course, being the suspicous of Bushco type.

[Rene]

5. Actually the guy in the video seemed to be slim....Z was quite burly

It looks like he had been kept on ice and trotted out as a distraction.
Where's the info on the amputated leg for identification?

[Philosoraptor]

6. The pentagon repeatedly called him a one legged terrorist.

I guess the official pentagon autopsy should solve that mystery forever.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

7. Remember? British tanks storm Basra jail to free undercover soldiers

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1573933,00.html

British tanks storm Basra jail to free undercover soldiers
Richard Norton-Taylor and Ewen MacAskill
Tuesday September 20, 2005

snip
n a day of dramatic incidents in the heart of the British-controlled area of Iraq, the two undercover soldiers - almost certainly special forces - were held by Iraqi security forces after clashes that reportedly left two people dead and threatened to escalate into a diplomatic incident between London and Baghdad.

The soldiers, who were said to have been wearing Arab headdress, were accused of firing at Iraqi police when stopped at a road block.

[Philosoraptor]

8. So, British soldiers dressed as Arabs killing folks to stir up unrest?

Yes, I remember the story and the photos and it vanished in two days.

The U.S. forces do this too, I'm sure. At the time the Nick Berg beheading video came out, this notion was discussed a lot.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

9. I never viewed the video of Nick Berg's death but I did study the stills

and IMHO the perpertrators were Not "Iraqi" insurgents, Al Quaeda etc. Then you had the costume..orange jumpsuit, the set design..plastic chair and the walls. All looking like Abu Ghraib. Ironically, Nick had worked right outside the prison.