Iraqi civilians and soldiers turn up with injuries that witnesses struggle to explain: burned faces and teeth, bodies shrunk as if cooked from within, corpses intact with no sign of any projectile. Italian journalists Maurizio Torrealta and Sigfrido Ranucci, reporting for RAI 24 News, follow those accounts toward a specific claim, that the US military tested laser and microwave weapons on the battlefield, including a Tactical High Energy Laser system that Pentagon sources confirm was used in Afghanistan to detonate mines. Defense Tech and Defense Industry Daily, two military-focused websites, report at least three such vehicles operating in Iraq as well. The reporters interview employees of companies that manufacture directed-energy weapons and press the Defense Department directly, which declines to release information or answer questions about their use in either country. Footage of the Secretary of Defense and General Richard Myers fielding press questions on the subject shows both men visibly uncomfortable, sidestepping rather than denying. The film leaves the core question unresolved, treating the silence itself as the most telling piece of evidence.