Mr. Berg meet Mr. Tucker.

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In Oregon, Wes Tucker, Private Tucker's father, said in an interview with a local NBC affiliate on Wednesday that the apparent brutality of his son's death might have been in retaliation for American attacks.

His son's attackers, he said, "were doing a job and they probably overstepped the bounds of the job they were supposed to do, just like the ones in our military overstepped the jobs they were supposed to do."

Kay Fristad, a spokeswoman for the Oregon National Guard, said Thursday that Mr. Tucker wanted to clarify his remarks, saying in a statement that "he has no anger towards the Iraqi people, because they are not the ones responsible for the death of their son. The fault lies with the insurgents."