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Yesterday I wrote: "After the 'termination'... it seems that everyone is quite happy". Actually - of course - it is not the real truth. Because there are also many people, who are very concerned about what will come as next..

About one person who have big problems with the killing of Zarqawi you can read here, published yesterday in the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth(based on AFP news):

Father of al-Zarqawi victim: More violence coming

Father of Jewish American businessman Nick Berg, allegedly beheaded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, says he regrets death of his son's murderer, warns of upsurge in Iraq violence 

 
The father of Nick Berg, a US businessman allegedly beheaded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi , said Thursday he regretted the death of his son's murderer and warned of an upsurge in violence in Iraq.

"The death of every human being is a tragedy," Michael Berg said in a statement.

"The death of Mr. Zarqawi means a continuation of the violence and revenge that took the life of my son," he said. "This will mean an increase in violence and resistance to the occupation of Iraq by the US military."

 
 
The headless body of Nick Berg, 26, who had gone to Iraq to look into business opportunities in the communications industry, was found in May 2004, and the video of his beheading appeared on an Al-Qaeda linked website a few days later.

'I don't believe in revenge'

Michael Berg, a long time anti-war activist and a particularly vocal critic of the US-led invasion of Iraq, is currently standing as a Green Party candidate for the November elections to the US Congress.

"Revenge is something that I do not follow, I do (not) ask for, I do not wish for against anybody," said Berg who, in an interview with CNN, repeatedly refused to voice any pleasure in Zarqawi's death.

"How could a human being be glad that another human being is dead?" he said.

"He (Zarqawi) has a family who reacts just as my family reacted when Nick was killed, and I feel badly for that," Berg said. "I feel doubly badly because Zarqawi was a political figure, and his death will re-ignite another wave of revenge."

Berg's arrest

Nick Berg first went to Iraq in December, 2003 and stayed for more than one month.

He went back in March the following year, keeping in touch with his family by phone or e-mail every day, ahead of his planned return home at the end of the month.

Instead, for a reason still not fully explained, Berg was arrested by Iraqi police and jailed.

The FBI also became involved in his case and he was eventually released on April 6 after his desperate parents filed suit in federal court in Philadelphia, contending that he was being illegally held by the US military.

Berg immediately contacted his parents, but after a final phone call on April 9, communication ended completely and they never heard from him again.

Berg was Jewish, although the matter of his religion was never mentioned in the video statement read by his masked captors prior to his execution.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3260655,00.html