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Friday, May 14, 2004 Berg's
encounter with 'terrorist' revealed WEST CHESTER, Pennsylvania (CNN) --
When Nicholas Berg took an
Oklahoma bus to a remote college campus a few years
ago, the American recently beheaded by terrorists
allowed a man with terrorist connections to use his
laptop computer, according to his
father. Michael Berg said the FBI investigated
the matter more than a year ago. He stressed that
his son was in no way connected to the terrorists
who captured and killed him.  Government
sources told CNN that the encounter involved an
acquaintance of Zacarias Moussaoui -- the
only person publicly charged in the United States
in connection with the September 11, 2001, terror
attacks.
According to Berg, his son was taking a course a
few years ago at a remote campus of the University
of Oklahoma near an airport. He described how on
one particular day, his son met "some terrorist
people -- who no one knew were terrorists at the
time." At one point during the bus ride, Berg said, the
man sitting next to his son asked if he could use
Nick's laptop computer. "It turned out this guy was a terrorist and that
he, you know, used my son's e-mail, amongst many
other people's e-mail who[m] he did the
same thing to," Berg said. Government sources said
Berg gave the man his password, which was later
used by Moussaoui, the sources said. The sources said the man who used Berg's e-mail
knew Moussaoui, now awaiting trial on federal
charges that could bring a death sentence. But the
sources would not disclose details of how the men
were connected.  Moussaoui,
36, was arrested in August 2001 after he aroused
suspicion at a Minnesota flight school when he
arrived for 747 simulator training without holding
a pilot's license. A French national of Moroccan
descent, Moussaoui has admitted in open court that
he belonged to al Qaeda, the radical Islamic group
behind the September 11 attacks, whi ch killed
nearly 3,000 people.
But Moussaoui has fiercely denied being involved
in the September 11 plot, and the prosecutors'
theory of his role has shifted from being a
possible 20th hijacker that day to possibly
piloting a fifth hijacked jetliner targeting the
White House. Berg said his son cooperated fully with an FBI
investigation into the matter. "He was happy to cooperate, and that was never
an issue," he said. He emphasized that the
individual was not a friend of his son's or even an
acquaintance -- "just a guy sitting next to him on
the bus." "Whoever was next to my son was treated with
great respect and friendship. Like I said, he knew
no dangers from people. The FBI were satisfied with
that." CNN Justice correspondent
Kelli Arena contributed to this report.
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