Was the Nick Berg decapitation video a fake?

[Brutus]

@MrFantsyPants

I haven’t seen any good explanation why he was in a prison jumpsuit. The US army claims to have released him the day before, but they would not have released him wearing a jumpsuit. The whole point of the jumpsuit is that if you see one outside of a jail, you drag his ass back to jail.

The jumpsuit that Nick was wearing looks nothing like the jumpsuits that Americans keep their prisoners in. Note the difference in colors, sleeves, and that Nick’s outfit looks a bit ‘reflective’, whereas US ‘issued’ jumpsuits are just cotton.

This is one of the ways that these damnedable tinfoil stories begins. Some nutty website claims that, golly, it must be a US jumpsuit! And so the meme goes on, unchallenged. That and a man on the grassy knoll, and the true story just gets obscured.

(WARNING: Graphic images.Here is a page with a photo of an Iraqi in a US issued suit. The page may not be for the squeemish, hence the Camp X-ray link above.)

[Duck_Duck_Goose]

I still can’t see why so many dopers feel there’s any reason to take this video at face value. Whoever put it together, it’s obviously a propaganda piece, and not simply a document of fact.

Somebody (s) chose how to spin this, what to put on the sound track, to add the titles, to release it via the net rather than to TV, who to attribute it to, when to release it etc.

I believe this video should be met with the normal skepticism you would show any media content, and then some !

Me too, actually, although I wouldn’t go so far as the Tinfoil Hat Brigade and automatically assume that the Illuminati staged the whole thing from start to finish.

Well, then to swap ends a bit, is there anything about the video that fairly screams “authentic”? As in, “no way could they have faked that part…”

[Squink]

Baathists:

Iraqi police have arrested four people in the killing of American Nicholas Berg and believe a nephew of Saddam Hussein was involved in Berg’s beheading, an Iraqi security official said Friday.

The group that was involved in the killing of Berg was led by Yasser al-Sabawi, a nephew of Saddam Hussein, the security official said. He said American intelligence had asked Iraqi authorities to hand over the suspects, but they were still in Iraqi hands.

Al-Sabawi was not among those arrested, the Iraqi official said.

Iraq Said to Arrest 4 in Berg Beheading

[Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party]

The jumpsuit that Nick was wearing looks nothing like the jumpsuits that Americans keep their prisoners in. Note the difference in colors, sleeves, and that Nick’s outfit looks a bit ‘reflective’, whereas US ‘issued’ jumpsuits are just cotton.

I’m not convinced that the video was fake, but the pictures of the Camp X-Ray prisoners shows at least three different shades of orange jumpsuits (maybe it’s just the light)?

There’s faded orange, really red orange and one inbetween which I can make out. Claiming the colours are different doesn’t really constitute as a good argument.