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　ＣＩＡは処刑役はザルカウィだと特定したが、面白いことがある。つまり真中で声明を朗読し首を切る男のアクセントはアラブ人からするとヨルダン人のそれではないというのである。

Octavia Nasr debunks Washington\'s Al-Zarqawi & Al Qaeda claims in Berg Beheading Case
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_crime
&Number=1468521&page=&view=&sb=&o=&vc=1&t=-1

OCTAVIA NASR, SR. EDITOR FOR ARAB AFFAIRS

Aired on CNN May 12, 2004 - 12:59 ET
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0405/12/lol.02.html
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.\"

My translation says: \"Is there any excuse for the one who sits down and does nothing?\" Basically they\'re telling people, you have no excuse for not doing anything, for not acting and defending Islam and so forth. Whereas the U.S. government translation has this factual error, I\'m sure it\'s an honest mistake, but basically it sort of adds al Qaeda to the statement, which is not on the statement.

　発音のおかしさから翻訳の相違も指摘されるわけだが、このアクセントの問題はアルジャジーラも『ブロッガー、処刑ビデオに疑念を提起』とする記事で様々な疑惑について触れながら記している。曰く、アクセントはイラク人でもヨルダン人でもなく、エジプト人かイラン人のそれだと。

Final question

Some bloggers focused on the accent of the purported executioner. Many deny the accent is either Iraqi or Jordanian - while claims the voice is Egyptian or Iranian have been made.

The Jordanian accused of the beheading Berg is himself believed to have been killed in March, according to two Islamist groups.

An eight-page leaflet circulated this week in Falluja said Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in the Sulaimaniya mountains of northern Iraq during a US bombing.

But even if it were the Jordanian, one discussion room member observes his face is so well-known that \"why would he bother to cover it?\"
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4FFA61A3-9C33-4597-A8D9-8079E91F2784.htm

　そもそもビデオに映っている出血の量が少ないということはすぐに目に付くことだが、医者も嘘だとお墨付きを与えているとの指摘もある。

　アメリカはバーグ氏の拘束を否定していたが、次のことが明らかになった。つまりイラクのアメリカ人外交官からＥメールで米軍が拘束した事実を家族に伝えていたのである。

E-mail from consul confirms Berg was in U.S. military hands
http://www.news24houston.com/content/headlines/?ArID=28906&SecID=2
5/13/2004 3:04 PM
By: Associated Press

WEST CHESTER, Penn. (AP) -- Nicholas Berg\'s family has e-mails from a U.S. diplomatic official in Iraq saying the U.S. military had detained him there.

Government officials have said Berg -- who was later beheaded -- was held by Iraqi police and was never in the custody of American forces.

Berg\'s relatives say his detention set up the circumstances that contributed to his death.

The family showed The Associated Press an April first e-mail from Beth Payne, the U.S. consular officer in Iraq. She wrote that he was \"being detained by the U.S. military in Mosul.\" She also said he was safe and she would try to get a contact person for the parents.

Berg\'s brother says the government should come clean about contacts with the American civilian before he died.

　アメリカはそれは外交官の勘違いだとしているが、友人の証言もある。バーグ氏はチリ人のジャーナリストの友人に米軍拘束の体験を語っていた。

Friend: Berg said he was in U.S. custody
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/13/berg.friends/

　ＣＩＡがビデオに写った５人の中の一人がザルカウィとした根拠も面白い。つまりゴールドの指輪をはめているのが画像に映っているというのだ。

　おかしな原理主義者だ。

Executioner wore gold ring - forbidden by Islam
http://www.khilafah.com/home/category.php?DocumentID=9529&TagID=2

　ザルカウィが生きていたにしても足を負傷しており義足である可能性が高いのだが、ビデオに写ったふくよかな男たちにそんな様子は見えなかった。（ドラッジレポートの画像では画像の横幅が微妙に狭められていた）

　処刑ビデオの疑惑はますます高まる。

　肌の白い処刑者の手にはＡＫ４７があった。ちなみにＡＫ４７は世界に大量に出回っているわけだが、コピーを生産している国にはイスラエルも含まれている。

AK-47 and derivatives are favoured by non-Western powers because of their ease of use, robustness, and simplicity to manufacture. Copies were made by many factories in other countries including Israel, Finland, Hungary, China, Poland, and Pakistan, where they remain in production today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AK-47

　フォーレスト・ガンプの例を出すまでもなく、今やビデオはいかようにも作ることができるのがこの現在である。死んだ人間とて、その場に登場させて話をさせることは可能だ。

　果たして文章を朗読し、処刑を行う役のマスクの中身の男は一体何者なのだろう。

関連
■フラッシュバック：アルカイダ・ビデオ製造法
http://counternews.blogtribe.org/entry-f09e0a47a052c0832e6680e5fc89b87f.html

■「処刑ビデオ」に登場のニコラス・バーグ・アブグレイブ・コネクションイラクからのＥメールから
http://counternews.blogtribe.org/entry-e9ebf9117ed4472947d99b91417b030b.html

■「アメリカ人処刑ビデオ」クエスチョン、クエスチョン、クエスチョン

http://counternews.blogtribe.org/entry-e21e8508596beeff1742d397ce1087ee.html

■【ビデオ・リンク有り】「処刑ビデオ」のバーグ氏、モスル・ハイファ・パイプラインのモスルでイラク警察に拘束、そしてＦＢＩが両親審問
http://counternews.blogtribe.org/entry-0e7163d446e1eb5a4e26d02a2e9e3ddd.html

■アメリカ人処刑画像、そしてザルカウィ、アンサーアルイスラムについて
http://counternews.blogtribe.org/entry-34bbe55d3205f8e068e9ca89daeffe25.html

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