text: has anyone noticed the weapon al-zarqawi  is trying to use...? in the video that just came out of al zarqawi and his difficulties trying to operate the machine gun (supposedly making him look like an incompetant) did anyone but me notice what kind of weapon it was? to get best answer from me on this question will require- identify the weapon and point out the reason this is a problem yes, this is a major problem, considering it's the same m249 that our own military uses.  they're cool machine guns.  the problem is that they are made and manufactured by us.  it'd be interesting to know how the hell some terrorist buttplugger got it.