Nicholas "Nick" Berg was the first Westerner captured and beheaded by Islamic militants during the Iraq War. His captors videotaped the horrific act and put it on the Internet for all to see.
Berg, an engineer who was Jewish, owned his own company that worked on communication antennas. He went to Iraq in 2003 hoping to get contracts for antenna repair work. In April of 2004, he disappeared. The video showing his beheading at the hands of five masked militants was aired in May 2004.
Berg, whose friends remember him as a brilliant, cheerful and adventurous man, appears to have been in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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