BAGHDAD (AFP) - Four people have been arrested over the beheading of US businessman Nicholas Berg, whose killing was shown earlier this month in a video on an Al-Qaeda linked website, a senior Iraqi source said.

Asked if more than one person had been arrested in connection with the killing, the source told AFP: "Yes, four people."

Berg's beheading was shown on a grainy video posted on the Islamic website linked to Osama bin Laden's terror network, days after his body was found in Baghdad on May 8.

"We have made good progress," the source added, referring to the investigation, but declined to give any details on the identity of the four people held in detention.

But it was understood that none of the four included Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, who US authorities believe carried out the killing of the 26-year-old who was in Iraq to drum up business for his small telecommunications company.

The tape of Berg's killing was entitled "Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi slaughtering an American", referring to the Jordanian militant, linked to Al-Qaeda and wanted over a string of attacks in Iraq.

The video showed Berg's decapitation by one of five masked men. Iraqi sources would not say whether any of the four suspects in custody were among them, or whether the detainees were linked to the case in another way.

Berg's captors said his killing was revenge for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at the hands of US troops, which shocked the world and undermined Washington's claim to be the liberators of Iraq.

The slain Jewish American was buried Friday in a private ceremony near his Pennsylvania home.

His family have blamed his death on US President George W. Bush's administration.

US Attorney General John Ashcroft has vowed to keep up the hunt for the killers who made a video.

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Wow, that was quick. I didn't think they get anyone in connection with this for quite some time.

Good to hear! Thanks for posting this.

Treat them like women.

Southern Miss Alum Wrote:Good to hear! Thanks for posting this.

Not a problem

Behead'em.

RebelKev Wrote:Behead'em.

I'm for it

RebelKev Wrote:Behead'em.

And post it online!

If we behead them, that will just magnify the problem. You have to think of the big picture.

cbfranchise3 Wrote:If we behead them, that will just magnify the problem. You have to think of the big picture.

what big picture?

flyingswoosh Wrote:

cbfranchise3 Wrote:If we behead them, that will just magnify the problem.&nbsp; You have to think of the big picture.

what big picture?

Pick one.

flyingswoosh Wrote:

cbfranchise3 Wrote:If we behead them, that will just magnify the problem.&nbsp; You have to think of the big picture.

what big picture?

turn it into a movie and put it in IMAX theatres??

cbfranchise3 Wrote:

flyingswoosh Wrote:

cbfranchise3 Wrote:If we behead them, that will just magnify the problem.  You have to think of the big picture.

what big picture?

Pick one.

what are my choices

flyingswoosh Wrote:

cbfranchise3 Wrote:

flyingswoosh Wrote:

cbfranchise3 Wrote:If we behead them, that will just magnify the problem.  You have to think of the big picture.

what big picture?

Pick one.

what are my choices

Infinite. You, as the questioner, always have the answer. You just can't see it.

cbfranchise3 Wrote:Infinite. You, as the questioner, always have the answer. You just can't see it.

Now everyone proceede to look the other way and carry on with daily life.

Any follow up news on this story, I haven't read a thing since a brief few sentences on it earlier this week.

SDSundevil Wrote:Any follow up news on this story, I haven't read a thing since a brief few sentences on it earlier this week.

There has not really been follow ups. The only thing that has to do with the beheading video is students watching it in school and the parents getting mad and blameing the schools