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Iranian Weapons. American Lives.


Here at Camp Victory, a sprawling concrete and razor wire American base that wraps around Baghdad International Airport, Maj. Weber was trying to explain how to negotiate that mine field. On the one side he wanted me to know me that the captured weapons on the table before us were -- definitely, no doubt about it, absolutely -- from Iran. On the other hand, he avoided drawing the obvious conclusion that Iran is supplying America's enemies inside Iraq.


Bear this is mind, when you watch this exclusive Pajamas Media video shot in Iraq. The video offers startling new evidence of Iran's involvement in the insurgency. It is the first up-close, online video showing captured Iranian weapons. These particular weapons have not been shown to the public before.


Senior officers also realize that the Democrat-led Congress doesn't want to hear about Iran's sinister role in Iraq and that President Bush does not want a confrontation with Iran now. To make the interview even harder to get, Maj. Weber's specialty, Explosives Ordnance Disposal or EOD, has a culture of not talking to the press. Any EOD officer who does, owes his unit a case of beer for each appearance.

So conspiracy theorists who feel this exclusive Pajamas Media Video is military propaganda couldn't be more wrong--the military would have been happier if the interview never happened.



Twice before the military has tried to present to the press overwhelming evidence of Iran's involvement in the Iraq war, only to be met by hostile skepticism. The skepticism basically takes the form of three questions:

1) Couldn't these weapons have been made anywhere?

2) Isn't it fishy that these weapons were marked in English with American-style dates?

3) Isn't all of this a ploy to justify a neocon war with Iran?



Maj. Weber is matter of fact. He laughingly admits that he got into EOD because he liked to hear things go BOOM. He's an old fashioned army officer who abhors politics but loves his profession. He's not trying to pedal a line, that's for the guys upstairs. He's just trying to tell you what he found and what it means.