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U.S. Links Iran to Weaponry Supplies to Iraqi Insurgents
The United States linked Iran to supplies of explosives and other weapons to Iraqi insurgents Sunday. The result was the death toll of over 170 troopers of the U.S. and the coalition forces, AP reported.
Pentagon claims the Iraqi insurgents use explosively formed penetrators, EFP. But the specifics of this weaponry that is capable of blasting through the armor point to its Iran’s origin.
The actions to spot the routes of smuggling EFPs to Iraq revealed that the insurgents were getting them from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard that is directly subordinate to Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The components of this high-tech explosive weaponry were smuggled via the frontier zone close to Amarah and supplied to the Shiite Mahdi Army led by cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. In addition to explosives, Mahdi Army was also getting mortar shells and grenade launchers and used them against the coalition forces.
Pentagon had been long aware of the weaponry supplies from Iran to Iraq but managed to collect the missing evidence only when searching the office of Iran’s representative in Iraq’s northern city of Irbil January 11, 2007.
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