MAJ Weber is my classmate. While I do not know him well, I know culture that produced him and it is generally quite trustworthy.
There is nothing here that remotely fits the definition of propaganda, which is information present in a particular way to stimulate a particular response. Weber stuck to the facts, presented no opinions outside his competence, and, according to Miniter, was even reluctant to go as far as he did.
If he had said the Iranian government sent these to kill Americans, I would require more information, but expressly declined to make such a statement, or to reach the opposite conclusion.
Someone who calls this propaganda is someone unwilling to deal with facts. And the other facts (not presented here) are, as JaJ noted above, that Austrian-made weapons of the same type sold to the Iranian G o v e r n m e n t (over the protests of our the United States government) have also been found in Iraq. I have not followed the story closely enought to know whether the serial numbers are the same as those sold to Iran, but the evidence against Iran is piling up, and it is not what I would call a trustworthy source of information.
