As I’ve mentioned previously, I really enjoy Boing! Boing! but sometimes that blog just goes off into loony insanity. For example, Cory Doctorow points to this silly conspiracy nonsense claiming that Nicholas Berg was killed by Westerns who are trying to frame al- Zaqarawi for the murder (probably the same people who faked the Daniel Pearl video) and Doctorow says of this,
The author states that a number of these will likely be explained away, but taken as a whole, this very convincingly implies that Berg was not killed by the terrorists that the CIA fingered, and may, in fact, have been killed by westerners.
For the record, note that this sentence here is erroneous because Doctorow apparently takes the conspiracy piece at face value when it says,
For a number of reasons, it does not appear that the Jordanian terrorist Abu Masab Al-Zaraqawi, who was voice identified by the CIA (and whose name was on the tape), was involved.
But the CIA has not made an official statement about whether or not Al-Zaraqawi is on the tape as the tape itself claims. Rather, newspapers have quoted an anonymous CIA source as claiming that a voice match suggested there was a “high probability” that the voice was that of Al-Zaraqawi.