>we really do live in Yoshie's "Age of Regress", and perhaps don't
>really want to face up to the consequences of this (by now
>established) fact in any consistent way.
I don't think it's an "Age of Regress" -- that's more like Carl
Remick's belief. Let's say it's "Uneven and Combined Development."
:-)
Doug posted an AP story:
>Nick Berg spoke to his parents on March 24 and said he would return
>home March 30. But he was detained by Iraqi police at a checkpoint
>in Mosul on March 24. At some point during his 13-day detention,
>U.S. officials took custody of him, his father said, and he was not
>allowed to make phone calls or contact a lawyer.
>
>FBI agents visited Berg's parents in West Chester on March 31 and
>told the family they were trying to confirm their son's identity. On
>April 5, the Bergs sued the government in federal court in
>Philadelphia, contending that their son was being held illegally by
>the U.S. military.
>
>Berg was released the next day, and he told his parents he had not
>been mistreated. They did not hear from him after April 9.
It's all mysterious. Why was Nick Berg, an American businessman and Bush supporter to boot, detained at all, much less for thirteen days without any access to a lawyer? Was he suspected of being a spy, because of the nature of his company, a maker of communications equipment?
DRR speaks of:
>Netiquette 1.0
Demonstrating a Bad Faith? :-| -- Yoshie
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