Skeptics Doubt Authenticity of Berg Video

I have read a couple of news reports that stated that some bloggers were skeptical that the Nick Berg video is authentic; i. e., that he was alive when he was beheaded. I have not seen it. I refuse to watch it. I can't. It's too much for me.

The talk was that Berg was dead before his head was severed from his body. I have not read the blogs where this talk has taken place, and I do not know which ones they are. I have read accusations that the U. S. may be culpable in his death. I don't know enough about this to comment. However, Nick Berg is definitely dead. There seems to be quite a bit of controversy over the circumstances that led to Berg's death. His father, Michael Berg holds the Bush administration responsible for his son's death. Whether or not Nick Berg was beheaded alive on film has apparently been debated.

From Asia Times:

"A factor in this was an apparent lack of the "massive" arterial bleeding such an act initiates. "I would have thought that all the people in the vicinity would have been covered in blood, in a matter of seconds ... if it was genuine," said [Dr John Simpson, executive director for surgical affairs at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons]. Notably, the act's perpetrators appeared far from so. And separately Jon Nordby, PhD and fellow of the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators observed: "I think that by the time they're ... on his head, he's already dead." Providing another basis for their findings, in the course of such an assault, an individual's autonomic nervous system would react, typically doing so strongly, with the body shaking and jerking accordingly. And while Nordby noted that "they rotated and moved the head", shifting vertebrae that should have initiated such actions, Simpson said he "certainly didn't perceive any movements at all" in response to such efforts.