Conspiracy Theories, Inc.
May. 25th, 2004 10:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darren_strangerThe more i think about this Nick Berg thing, and all the conspiracy theories flying around about it, the more i keep coming back to the same thought.
If (and i can't say either way to this myself) the video really is too bodgy to be real, then the question is what are the most likely explanations. The most simple options seem to be:
a. The CIA, or another similar agency, made a video with so many obvious flaws (perhaps so that no-one would believe a well-resourced intelligence agency would do so bad a job).
b. Nervous prison guards tried to hide a death in custody by drawing the whole world's attention to it with an elaborate mock-up (again, perhaps working on the principle that it's the last thing you'd expect them to do).
c. Some other party made it to implicate either the US or al-Qaeda (i'm starting to hear talk of Mossad and the Iranians tossed about now).
d. A terrorist cell in an occupied territory did a bad edit job on an execution (perhaps to make it look better if the killing didn't go right or they failed to get it on camera, or even cutting the head off an already dead body to make it look a more gruesome death than it was).
It's all conjecture, and it's quite possible we'll never know for sure, but to me the last still seems to be the most plausible explanation (if indeed it is faked), especially in light of who has least to lose from a stunt like this.
Not that i really want to dwell too much on what, at the end of the day, is still someone's son who never came home alive, but with all the speculation going on, i just want to try to look at it logically and get some perspective on it all.
If (and i can't say either way to this myself) the video really is too bodgy to be real, then the question is what are the most likely explanations. The most simple options seem to be:
a. The CIA, or another similar agency, made a video with so many obvious flaws (perhaps so that no-one would believe a well-resourced intelligence agency would do so bad a job).
b. Nervous prison guards tried to hide a death in custody by drawing the whole world's attention to it with an elaborate mock-up (again, perhaps working on the principle that it's the last thing you'd expect them to do).
c. Some other party made it to implicate either the US or al-Qaeda (i'm starting to hear talk of Mossad and the Iranians tossed about now).
d. A terrorist cell in an occupied territory did a bad edit job on an execution (perhaps to make it look better if the killing didn't go right or they failed to get it on camera, or even cutting the head off an already dead body to make it look a more gruesome death than it was).
It's all conjecture, and it's quite possible we'll never know for sure, but to me the last still seems to be the most plausible explanation (if indeed it is faked), especially in light of who has least to lose from a stunt like this.
Not that i really want to dwell too much on what, at the end of the day, is still someone's son who never came home alive, but with all the speculation going on, i just want to try to look at it logically and get some perspective on it all.
