I've been meaning to point this out for ages so I might as well while I have a moment. Remember the 'Zarqawi Blooper Tape'? How could you not. It purported to show a master terrorist who couldn't shoot a machine gun, or rather a squad automatic weapon (SAW). Of course the declaration of the footage being a propaganda coup for the occupation meant the loss of some of the tape's context.
First of all have a look at the picture again. The weapon 'Zarqawi' is holding is a M249 SAW. The insurgency counterpart to this weapon is the RPK. The fact that Zarqawi is holding an American soldier's weapon means someone Zarqawi knows killed the soldier it used to belong to and then had enough control of the area immediately after killing him to take his weapon.
The M249
Next they were able to casually drive several vehicles out to someplace in Iraq, park them, shoot off some rounds, shoot some video and then get back into their cars and drive home. All this in a country supposed controlled by the world's greatest military.
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