Nicholas Evan Berg (April 2, 1978 – May 11, 2004) was an American businessman seeking telecommunications work in Iraq during the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq. He was captured and beheaded in May 2004 by Islamic militants. The CIA claimed that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi personally beheaded Berg. [1]

The decapitation, the first of a series of such killings of foreign hostages in Iraq, received worldwide attention because it was filmed, and the footage was subsequently released on the Internet, reportedly from a Malaysian homepage by the Islamic organization al-Ansars. His killers claimed that his death was carried out to avenge abuses of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison. This particular act was condemned by many Muslim leaders who found it contrary to Islamic law due to its illegal application and declared as harmful to their cause.^{[citation needed]} Berg's father, Michael Berg, who is running as a Green Party candidate for Congress on an anti-war platform, has blamed George W. Bush for his son's murder. Berg's father has also stated that he mourns the recent death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, former leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, as he would the death of any man

All I can say is if I was Nick Berg and was re-incarnated after my Dad said something insanely idiodic and stupid like that,  well Dad and me would have a little chat and I would show him error of his ways.