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US troops find armour-piercing bombs in Iraq
US officers say troops in Iraq have found a huge haul of armour-piercing bombs of a kind which Tehran has allegedly smuggled to Shiite militias, hidden alongside Iranian mortar shells.US army Major Jeremy Siegrist said American soldiers discovered a workshop with enough components to build 150 "explosively formed penetrators" in a Shiite village 25 kilometres north of Baghdad. Earlier this month, a US military spokesman said EFPs were made in Iran and exported to Iraqi Shiite groups as bomb components to be assembled and used in attacks on US and Iraqi forces. But Major Siegrist was more cautious. "I don't think there's any way this can be tied to a government," he said. "I mean, we didn't recover the bill, so we may never know." Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-02-26 |
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