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Bush Denounces Killing as Berg's Body Returns to U.S.

NPR | By Don Gonyea

Published May 12, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

The body of 26-year-old Nicholas Berg was returned to the United States Wednesday. President Bush denounced the killing of Berg, a U.S. civilian whose decapitation by masked men was shown in a video on an al Qaeda-linked web site. Hear NPR's Don Gonyea.

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