U.S. military officials said the body of 26-year-old Nicholas Berg left Kuwait aboard an Air Force plane Tuesday night. His body is expected to arrive sometime today at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
Berg's beheading was posted on a militant Islamic web site Tuesday. The masked men who killed him said they did it in retaliation over alleged Iraqi prisoner abuse.
The White House rejects that claim. A Coalition spokesman said Berg was never in U.S. or coalition custody, but said Berg was detained for a time by Iraqi police in Mosul.
Some also remember the killing of American journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan. Pearl's beheading was also videotaped.
His widow, Marianne Pearl, told an audience in Milwaukee Tuesday that Berg's death is "proof violence leads to violence and the cycle of violence is not likely to end."
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