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This page was rather annoyingly and tacitly protected while I was in the midst of editing it. Presumably because of the picture issue, as no one bothered to explain? So I'm storing the changed previewed text here.

Please restore or rephrase "His capture and killing was said to have been carried out to avenge abuses of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison." of the first paragraph. This was the known reason why he was killed. Without this line, his death could be out of context. -- Toytoy

Toytoy, if he was killed in Early April and The Abu Ghraib story didn't break until weeks later, isn't it likely that the reason for the act was manufactured later in order to grab headlines? - Tεxτurε 18:48, 12 May 2004 (UTC)

As my (attempted) edit summary would have explained, the purported "reason" for the killing is already mentioned in an appropriate place in the article: it doesn't belong in the "lede". - Nunh-huh 18:50, 12 May 2004 (UTC)

Good. Update Nick Berg/Draft so we can see the whole thing. - Tεxτurε 19:12, 12 May 2004 (UTC)

That's it for now (I must confess I don't see the point of protecting a page and cloning it to enforce one's "no-gory-picture" rule...now that someone's placed the picture in question on the cloned page I suppose that too will be protected.) Maybe we'll have better info on dates of birth and death when all the protectionism is over. - Nunh-huh 19:17, 12 May 2004 (UTC)

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Nicholas Berg (about 1978 - about May 2004), an American businessman seeking telecommunications work in Iraq during the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq, was captured and beheaded by Islamist militants who boasted of their Al-Qaida affiliation.

Berg was graduated from West Chester Henderson High School in 1996, and attended four universities, Cornell, Drexel, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Oklahoma. He once traveled to Africa to help a village; in Ghana, he taught villagers how to make bricks, and returned emaciated because he gave away most of his food: he returned with only the clothes on his back.

Berg was a practicing Jew; his father feels this fact was one reason he was murdered.

Berg, age 26 at the time of his death, was a native of West Chester, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, and owned his own company, Prometheus Methods Tower Service. He worked inspecting and rebuilding communication antennas, and had previously visited Kenya and Ghana on similar projects. ==end==
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