Berg Linked to Moussaoui
US intelligence has concluded there’s a very good chance the person shown murdering Nicholas Berg was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi himself.
But another interesting new development in the case stretches the bounds of coincidence: Bizarre New Link In Berg Murder. (Hat tip: Nancy.)
U.S. officials say the FBI questioned Berg in 2002 after a computer password Berg used in college turned up in the possession of Zaccarias Moussaoui, the al Qaeda operative arrested shortly before 9/11 for his suspicious activity at a flight school in Minnesota.
The bureau had already dismissed the connection between Berg and Moussaoui as nothing more than a college student who had been careless about protecting his password.
But in the wake of Berg’s gruesome murder, it becomes a stranger than fiction coincidence — an American who inadvertently gave away his computer password to one notorious al Qaeda operative is later murdered by another notorious al Qaeda operative.