Berg's father is highly active in the peace movement so that could be a link.

Also, haven't read the Salon story, but the AP piece I read just says interview. So it's not certain this is a Moore interview.

It could be that Berg's father has some tape of his son, Moore has seen Berg's criticism of Bush, and Moore is going, "Hey, I can use this guy!"

So he contacts the father and asks, "Whatya got?"

"Well, there's this video."

Sounds like a Michael Moore publicity stunt to me.

I'll second that.

Notice Moore's wording: "We have an interview with Nick Berg." If it was an interview Moore had conducted himself he would've said exactly that. And it wouldn't have taken him this long to bring it to light.

If we've learned anything about Michael Moore it's that he words his statements very deliberately -- to avoid people calling him a bald faced liar. You can punch holes in his logic all day long, but he's not going to get caught on the particular wording of something like this.

What happened to Berg is horrible, and this is just another example of the sick-headed opportunist Michael Moore is.

I bet it's a publicity stunt. A shameful one at that. Moore probably didn't give two shits about Nick Berg until he saw a way to exploit the tragedy in order to discredit Bush.

Can this get any more bizarre? First, we find out that a terrorist had used his computer while he was in college. Next, we find out that his dad is a member of a Stalinist "peace" group. Now we find out he may have been interviewed by Michael Moore? I'm certainly not claiming the kid was up to no good, but what is the joint probability of all 3 events independently happening?

I know you find this speculation about a murdered man distasteful

Is your name Paul? Does this post contain the word "exclusive?" Do you make bold assertions like "this guy was dirty" and then backpedal desperately from them? Do you often leave comments at other blogs calling the author a "fucking coward" or "hypocritical moron" while filling in an email address like a@b.com--without apparent irony? No?

Then I have no quarrel with what you write about this. If anything, I'd say 80% of your work on this blog is consistently better written, better researched, and more professional than most of what I see in my local paper.

Watching the video, i have no doubt it was real, but i ask everyone to listen to the video. At the VERY END you here in plain English a man ask "AND HOW WILL THIS HAPPEN?" It is so clear and occures after the last arab chants, there is a pause and then you hear a man in a English speaking voice speak.
Why was Berg over their? Looking for work? All I hear about is how abundant work is over their. HE was a wack, and his father is a wack, but i cant help but be mad, since no one cried foul about this as much as they do these frat prank pics of Iraqs. Come on, for some reason the media feels compelled to stick up for the side that cant possibly win. Why was Moore able to walk around so freely in Iraq, how can anyone miss that lard? They should have gutted his fat butt and fed a nation

To watch the video will make you sick but lets look back at the facts. #1 Nick lets a terrorist use his email account(without knowing he did it)and is questioned by the FBI. #2 Nick gets stopped by Iraqi police because of an Israeli stamp in his passport(Israeli Mossad says he visited the West Bank and Gaza when there). This is where Hamas & Fata has its headquarters.#3 Then he gets his head chopped of in Iraq by terrorists. Yes another brush with terrorists. #4 Moore has a clip of him that was shot for his ANTI-BUSH, ANTI-U.S.MILITARY movie. Come on guys. Don't you think that a couple of brushes with known terrorists by the same cat in just a few years is way out there. Then a visit to the West Bank and Gaza. There refugee camps are not where a person goes on vacation. Come on. His guy was up to something no good.