How do you send an email FROM A BUS?! (Berg Encounter)

[spooked]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Northeast/05/13/berg.encounter/

Berg's encounter with 'terrorist' revealed
Friday, May 14, 2004

Something about this story doesn't add up. Just the tone of this whole article is "Nothing to see here..."

BUT, WHY would Moussaoui's friend need to use Nick Berg's email acount and password ON A BUS??? HOW could he send the email??

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"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 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."

[henslee]

1. Experience tells me there is much more to the Berg story.

[Lefty_the_Right]

2. Yeah

That has been bugging me too.

Was it a big Trailways, and even then do they offer some sort of internet service?
It sounds like another huge hole in the story.

Plus it has gone from being Mousoui, to an associate of Mousoui who then gave it to him to use.

The whole story is really lame.
I think it was a bad situation gone worse.

[jono]

3. It can be done with a laptop and data-enabled wireless phone.

I also have doubts about the story, but personally this is not one of them.

[Lefty_the_Right]

4. Excellent point

I can't believe I didn't think of that! DOH!

And it was his field, wasn't it? <sigh>

[Toucano]

5. True, it sure was possible.

But it still impresses me as peculiar that anyone would lend their laptop to a total stranger on a bus ride. Even for 10 minutes. Most of us are pretty stingy with our battery life! ;)

I'd like more about the bus ride, I guess. I just thought it was like a campus bus, but if it was a greyhound or other long ride, I might better accept it.

[jono]

11. There are definitely unanswered questions about the why.

I just wanted to point out the easy explanation of how. :)

[NMDemDist2]

6. jono did you see the reply re "flipflop"?

can you make one where a shoe is hitting Bushit on the head? that would be sooo great!

[jono]

9. Ooh!

Good idea. I'll see what I can do. :)

[amazona]

12. before august 2001, I don't think so

Moussaiou (sorry, spelling) has been in custody since August 2001. I don't think wireless was so prevalent nor laptops so cheap that Berg had access to this and was willing to share it out like candy to any whack on a bus at the time we're talking about. The wireless revolution is VERY new.

[NMDemDist2]

7. you can write emails which will reside in your outbox

until you hook up to the net again

I do that on my laptop all the time

[JawJaw]

8. Just doesn't make sense

Nick Berg was an intelligent man, a technical specialist running his own business. You can't tell me he would just hand out his email password to a stranger on a bus!!!

Why didn't he just say "open up your own yahoo mail account. It's really easy, you know"?

or just give a fake password or pretend to 'lose the signal' to shut the guy up?

[pacifictiger]

10. from all reports though

he was very outgoing - a guy who felt at ease chatting with strangers and readily made new friends.