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Article: ISLAM ABSENT IN BERG'S MURDER ROOM.(Opinion/Commentary/Editorial)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- May 28, 2004
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Byline: Taj Ashaheed
On May 7, Nick Berg's body was found after he was executed in Iraq in an act of so-called revenge. On May 10, I viewed the video complete with its gruesome record of Berg's last moments.
Now, I am someone who appreciates realism, even on camera. I have videos that portray vivid scenes of violence and death, execution and revenge, disasters, even wild animals rampaging against human captors. Banned from television? I have it. Faces of Death? I saw it, and laughed at the fake scenes. Many Taboos of Death, Part 3? Right in my video collection. Movies with blazing guns, samurai swords and car crashes? I'm there, opening night, middle ...