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Thurs - May 13 -

Excerpts from e-mails... sent by communications tower specialist Berg to folks back home during a January trip to Iraq.

>> SUNDAY, Jan. 18, 11:36 a.m.
So between the 11th January and the time of writing, I have been on six major sites, inspecting towers and cataloging the extent of looting/sabotage damage. Most of the destruction was intentional looting or even sabotage on the numerous (at one time twenty-six) tall towers in Iraq. There are twenty-two left, and at least ten have some major problems. The worst site I have been on was the Abu Gharib I tower, a 320 meter (1040') guyed tower in the main broadcast complex for Baghdad, near the Abu Gharib political prisons... <<

:: Excerpts Berg - AP/WaPo ::
-- via Danny Schechter --

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