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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/4775521.html Last update: May 13, 2004 at 8:23 PM Berg's killer identified by the CIA as Jordanian Douglas Jehl, New York Times May 14, 2004BERG0514WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is believed with "high probability" to have been the masked man who beheaded American Nicholas Berg in a gruesome video, a CIA official said Thursday. The CIA assessment, based on a technical analysis of the video, also identifies the voice on the video clip as believed with "high probability" to be that of Zarqawi, who has links to Al-Qaida and has been identified by U.S. officials as being behind some of the deadliest attacks in Iraq. Zarqawi is also suspected in the killing of Laurence Foley, a U.S. aid official in Amman, Jordan, in October 2002. The decapitation of Berg, 26, is chillingly reminiscent of the role that a senior Al-Qaida official, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, played in the February 2002 decapitation of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan. Mohammed is now in U.S. custody. Also Thursday, e-mails provided by Berg's family suggest the businessman was being detained by the U.S. military. U.S. government officials have said Berg was detained by Iraqi police March 24 and was never in the custody of American forces. To back its claims that Berg was in U.S. custody, the family showed the Associated Press an April 1 e-mail from Beth A. Payne, the U.S. consular officer in Iraq. "I have confirmed that your son, Nick, is being detained by the U.S. military in Mosul. He is safe. He was picked up approximately one week ago. We will try to obtain additional information regarding his detention and a contact person you can communicate with directly," the e-mail said. The West Chester, Pa., family has blamed the government for keeping Berg in custody for too long while anti-American violence escalated in Iraq. Two Islamic militant groups, Hezbollah and Hamas, issued strongly worded condemnations Thursday of Berg's beheading. And Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates became the first Arab governments to criticize the slaying. Lebanon's Hezbollah and the militant Palestinian group Hamas, both labeled terrorist organizations by the United States, said the beheading was appalling and un-Islamic. In a statement faxed to the Associated Press, Hezbollah called Berg's killing an "extremely brutal and cruel" act. "Hezbollah condemns this grisly act, which has caused great harm to Islam and to Muslims by this group which falsely claims to belong to the religion of mercy, compassion and genuine human values," the statement said. Osama Hamdan, Hamas' representative in Lebanon, denounced both Berg's killers and President Bush. "I condemn this brutal act and sympathize with the family of the slain American man, who I consider a victim of the wrong U.S. policies in the region," Hamdan said. "U.S. President George Bush and [Berg's] killers are equally responsible." Both groups also condemned the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, and Hezbollah has denounced a few other major terrorist attacks that targeted civilians, but the language they used Thursday was unusually tough. News of the videotape broke too late for Wednesday newspaper editions in the Middle East. But on Thursday, the papers spoke out against the killing in columns and editorials. "We have to be ashamed as Arabs and cover our eyes," wrote Saleh Qalab, a columnist in the newspaper al-Ra'i. "He who does not yet realize how much those organizations have harmed Islam and its civilized message must look again at those shameful and hideous pictures." The English-language Jordan Times condemned the killing in an editorial, calling it "a horrific act of the greatest magnitude." Dubai's English daily, Gulf News, called it "a truly barbaric act that served no cause except the brutish bloodlust of his executioners." The paper said that although there was "justifiable anger" over the U.S. treatment of Iraqi prisoners, "one brutality does not forgive another." Saudi Arabia's popular Al-Watan said in an editorial that the killing "was nothing but an offense to the image of Muslims and their behavior. The perpetrator could hardly belong to our nation." The Associated Press contributed to this report. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. 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