Originally posted by Sixpence
I didn't get that at all, from what I read is he was told to leave and didn't, then decided to leave and got detained.
It does seem odd. He goes to Iraq "looking for work". He didn't have anything set up before he went. He spent 1-2 months there not working, only to return to the US. He then went back again.
Now the US says that they never had him in custody, only the Iraq police did. The FBI questioned him 3 times while he was in custody about why he was in-country, and even had an agent question his family. Apparently they told him to leave Iraq.
Anyone seen the whole video? What's this about a 12-hour discrepancy in the timestamp?
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"Coalition spokesman Dan Senor told reporters that Berg was detained by Iraqi police in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. The Iraqis informed the Americans, and the FBI questioned him three times about what he was doing in Iraq.
Senor said that to his knowledge Berg "was at no time under the jurisdiction or detention of coalition forces."
However, calls by The Associated Press to police in Mosul failed to find anyone who could confirm Berg was held there. The U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority runs Iraq, controlling not only the police, but the military and all government ministries.
FBI agents visited Berg's parents March 31 and told the family they were trying to confirm their son's identity."
