OCTAVIA NASR discussing Berg incident ; CNN transcript.

[number6]

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0405/12/lol.02.html

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O'BRIEN: Well, let me ask you this. You've had a chance to really listen to this tape and get a sense who might be responsible, just by deciphering, say, accents. And certainly, there in the Arab world, they're very attuned to that. And given the fact of who this may or may not be, does that have some effect on how it is being played?

NASR: Yes, and if you listen to these voices that we're hearing on Arab networks, Iraqis are condemning this execution. And they're saying these are foreigners. These are not Iraqis. They do not represent us and so forth.

Now, of course, the original claim was that Zarqawi is the actual man who performed this execution. Our experts listened to the accent, as you said, and they determined the accent is not Jordanian...

O'BRIEN: He is a Jordanian who is working supposedly, allegedly, at the behest of al Qaeda in Iraq. So go ahead.

NASR: Right, he is very close to bin Laden, and works, you're right, as an agent of al Qaeda in Iraq. Now, the accent is not Jordanian so that takes the Jordanian element out of the story immediately.

O'BRIEN: Interesting. All right, now one final thought here. You did a very careful translation of your own, of the statement. And in it, you see no reference to al Qaeda. And yet the official U.S. government translation does. Explain how that happened.

NASR: Oh, I find it very interesting, because out of the blue, there is a mention of al Qaeda on the U.S. government translation. It says: "Does al Qaeda need any further excuses?" Any speaker of the Arabic language is going to notice a difference between the word al Qaeda, which means "the base," and al qaed, which means "the one sitting, doing nothing."

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[number6]

1. kick

:shrug:

[roguevalley]

2. good god. Could be a legit mistake since they fired all the arabic

translators they had because many were gay. :(

What a crack jack group the government is right now.

[number6]

3. thats it

crack job ... government ...

do you trust em..? I don't ...

[number6]

4. read this thread please

;)

[maddezmom]

5. saw it live...

what's CNN's official line about the tape now?

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6. K * I * C * K - NO MENTION OF AQ ON THE TAPE???!!!

How the *$^^ is this NOT huge???!!!

[Tatiana]

7. It is HUGE.

More evidence that Al Quaeda likely didn't kill Nick and that someone else did.

[tnlefty]

8. kick

kick

[rumguy]

9. someone explain to me what this means

or does it just raise more questions?

[boobooday]

10. What is up with this story?

How will we ever know?

Why do they want it to be Al Qaeda and Zarqawi so bad? Doesn't that make Bush look even worse, since not only has he made a mess of Iraq, but he hasn't seemed to take out Al Qaeda either?



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