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It's long, and boring but with music--MTV Iraq, all Jihadi, all the time. Here are some comments about the weapons in it.

Zarqawi at first has an AKS 74U in 5.54mm (.223 Winchester) aka the Krinkov. It's the gun Osama Bin Laden always has--a Soviet weapon, short side folder of the improved AK, used by the SpetsNaz, helicopter pilots and tankers. He's carrying extra clips on his chest in fabric carriers and they curve (I don't know why). I always wondered if the shortened barrel of the Krinkov (210 mm) means that, at night, the incomplete combustion of the propellant in the cartridges blooms out about 6 feet.

Other times he has leaning on the wall behind him an M4 carbine with an M203 underslung grenade launcher and a night scope. When that's leaning behind him, the clips in his carrier are straighter, as they all should be.

So why the two weapons? Did he lose the Krinkov?

He's also shown firing, in a way that would almost certainly damage the barrel, the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW), which is not a weapon beloved by our troops in Iraq.

The missiles they show firing are home-made and unguided. But they also show some shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles, which is scarier (even though they just show them, they don't fire them).

Here's some of the translation of his diatribe on the tape. These things sound like they're Daily Kos comments, except saner and less profane:

To the American administration, and at its head the Crusader Bush, and those who surround him from the Jews, the Crusaders, the rejectionists, the apostates and others, we say you will not lead a life of ease in the land of Islam.

Not a single time were you truthful to yourself or your people; even though truthfulness, which you lack, is found in some of your forefathers. Why do not you tell the truth about your soldiers and that their fighting will is rather weak, so that your people will know the truth about this war? Why do not you tell them that your soldiers are continuously committing suicide? Why do not you tell them that your soldiers cannot sleep without taking drugs and hallucination pills and that those pills make them lose their mind to allow your evangelical-Zionist war generals to drag them into the slaughter house? Why do not you tell them about the mass desertion and revolt [which] is growing among the ranks of your soldiers?

O, you arrogant liar! Know that we will sacrifice our blood and bodies to put an end to your dreams, and what is coming is even worse, by God's help. This rotten play of democracy that you brought with you to the Land of the Two Rivers after you have seduced people by the claims of freedom, happiness and financial and spiritual easiness is gone with the wing and left forever, God willing.

Meanwhile, they forgot or chose to forget that all through modern history, every occupier of a country or colonial power finds those natives who are willing to represent them in order to make it possible for the occupier to secure its stay, to steal the resources of the land and the people, and to safeguard its cunning goals and interests.

Oh what a loss it is for the nation! Who is going to comfort the bereaved mothers, who [is]going to answer the call of the free woman in the prisons of the Crusaders, who is going to free the chaste from the detentions of the hateful rejectionists?

We inform you, our noble Shaykh, about what happened recently in Al-Ramadi, a special and huge operation where God granted victory to the brothers of the Mujahidin Shura Council. They killed all the infidels they could kill, and were able to control the [center] of the city, including the Administration and Directorates, and handed the infidels a great defeat. With God's blessings, they were able to kill a large number of the soldiers as they tightened control of the city for four days and prevented the Americans from even reaching their dead. Praise be to God. This operation was a clear and direct answer to the visits of the infidel ambassadors Condoleezza Rice [U.S. Secretary of State] and Jack Straw [British Foreign Secretary].

In general, the spirits of our troops in Al-Anbar and other areas are good and moral is increasing, in contrast to the infidel armies and their soldiers, who are suffering lower moral and decreasing spirits as they go from one defeat to another.

A little projection going on there, especially at the end.