- CNN - MICHALE BERG, NICK BERG'S FATHER STATED NICK ATTENDED
FLIGHT SCHOOL IN OKLAHOMA AND MEET ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI AND LET HIM USE HIS
(BERG) COMPUTER AND HIS PASSWORD.
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- Berg's encounter with 'terrorist' revealed
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- WEST CHESTER, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- When Nicholas Berg
took an Oklahoma bus to a remote college campus a few years ago, the American
recently beheaded by ... Government sources told CNN that the encounter
involved an acquaintance of Zacarias Moussaoui -- the only person publicly
charged in the United States in connection with the September 11, 2001,
terror attacks. http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Northeast/05/13/berg.encounter/
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- WEST CHESTER, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- When Nicholas Berg
took an Oklahoma bus to a remote college campus a few years ago, the American
recently beheaded by terrorists allowed a man with terrorist connections
to use his laptop computer, according to his father.
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- Michael Berg said the FBI investigated the matter more
than a year ago. He stressed that his son was in no way connected to the
terrorists who captured and killed him.
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- Government sources told CNN that the encounter involved
an acquaintance of Zacarias Moussaoui -- the only person publicly charged
in the United States in connection with the September 11, 2001, terror
attacks.
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- According to Berg, his son was taking a course a few
years ago at a remote campus of the University of Oklahoma near an airport.
He described how on one particular day, his son met "some terrorist
people -- who no one knew were terrorists at the time."
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- At one point during the bus ride, Berg said, the man
sitting next to his son asked if he could use Nick's laptop computer.
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- "It turned out this guy was a terrorist and that
he, you know, used my son's e-mail, amongst many other people's e-mail
who he did the same thing to," Berg said.
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- Government sources said Berg gave the man his password,
which was later used by Moussaoui, the sources said.
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- The sources said the man who used Berg's e-mail knew
Moussaoui, now awaiting trial on federal charges that could bring a death
sentence. But the sources would not disclose details of how the men were
connected.
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- Moussaoui, 36, was arrested in August 2001 after he aroused
suspicion at a Minnesota flight school when he arrived for 747 simulator
training without holding a pilot's license. A French national of Moroccan
descent, Moussaoui has admitted in open court that he belonged to al Qaeda,
the radical Islamic group behind the September 11 attacks, which killed
nearly 3,000 people.
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- But Moussaoui has fiercely denied being involved in the
September 11 plot, and the prosecutors' theory of his role has shifted
from being a possible 20th hijacker that day to possibly piloting a fifth
hijacked jetliner targeting the White House.
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- Berg said his son cooperated fully with an FBI investigation
into the matter.
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- "He was happy to cooperate, and that was never an
issue," he said. He emphasized that the individual was not a friend
of his son's or even an acquaintance -- "just a guy sitting next to
him on the bus."
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- "Whoever was next to my son was treated with great
respect and friendship. Like I said, he knew no dangers from people. The
FBI were satisfied with that."
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- CNN Justice correspondent Kelli Arena contributed to
this report.
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- [SNIP} The Terror Watch A chronology of events leading
up to 9/11 by Jim Crogan
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- * 1999: Ihab Mahammed Ali, an al Qaeda member arrested
in Orlando, Florida, and later named as an unindicted co-conspirator in
the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa, is called before a grand jury.
He denies participation in bin Laden's network and is charged with perjury.
The FBI learns that Ali had obtained flight training at the Airman Flight
School in Norman, Oklahoma. Ali became al Qaeda's first pilot. Accused
September 11 terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui also took flight lessons at the
Airman school.
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- FULL STORY: http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/27/news-crogan.php
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- BOTH BERG AND MOUSSAOUI ATTENDED AIRMAN FLIGHT SCHOOL:
The Airman Flight School is centrally located in Norman, Oklahoma, and
only minutes away from Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City. Norman
is the home to the University of Oklahoma; its residents enjoy all the
conveniences of a major metropolitan area. Norman averages more than 300
days of VFR weather per year, for year-round flight training. On IFR days,
students in advanced courses continue training on instruments. http://www.airmanflightschool.com/#lodge
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