MSNBC has changed the website to delete the fact that Daniel Berg worked at Abu Ghraib. The new version is here
The original cached version is here
This is the section that was removed:
“During his time in Iraq, he struggled with the Arabic language and worked at night on a tower in Abu Ghraib, a site of repeated attacks on U.S. convoys and the location of the notorious prison where U.S. soldiers abused Iraqi inmates.”
Just so you know, the link to the cached site you gave doesn’t now contain that language either.
It was there before, I swear it I…I…I…(sigh) goes shopping for new tinfoil hat
The story is originally from the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4083599,00.html
Quite misleading, which is probably why MSNBC pulled it. Berg never worked at the prison; he worked on a communications tower in the town of Abu Ghraib:
Too lazy to give a cite, but news sites and especially publicity sites change copy all the time, and it’s not just to correct errors of fact. People in the government are always saying stupid things that mysteriously disappear from the official transcript after they’re been posted for a little while. Josh Marshall’s blog catches them at it all the time.
And it’s Nick Berg.
Has there been any individual more publicized than Nick Berg over the last couple of weeks? And yet this is the second time someone’s gotten his name wrong in an outraged thread.
I share your outrage (though this may not warrant it if the story was misleading anyway), but please guys, give the poor guy his proper first name.
Sorry, I know it wasn’t intentional, it just bothered me, knowing that this young man was killed and is now in the middle of a huge media frenzy and we don’t even remember his name correctly. As if his death itself wasn’t impersonal and dehumanizing enough.
Probably just me. Sorry to hijack. 
Dude, that’s just what they want you to think…
Nick Berg. Daniel Pipes.
I would think Nick Berg. Daniel Pearl. would be a more likely confusion, since they have a lot in common.
Okay, Pearl it is.
I agree, that’s more likely.