General Lynch: Sunni insurgents using Iranian EFPs
Above: Aftermath of an EFP (explosively formed projectile) attack. First reported in use last year, the armor-piercing EFPs are significantly more lethal than conventional roadside bombs. Having already claimed Shiite Iran was supporting Shiite militias, the U.S. has increasingly asserted Iranian support of Sunni insurgents as well.
BAGHDAD: Powerful roadside bombs believed to be of Iranian origin and considered the signature weapon of Shiite militias are turning up in the hands of Sunni insurgents south of Baghdad, a U.S. general said Sunday.
Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, commander of the Army's Task Force Marne, said the presence of "explosively formed penetrators," or EFPs, in Sunni weapons caches suggests some degree of Iranian influence among Sunni as well as Shiite extremists.
"We're seeing Iranian EFPs in the hands of Sunni extremists," Lynch told a group of Western reporters.
But Lynch, whose command covers the southern rim of Baghdad and mostly Shiite areas to the south, said it was unclear whether the Iranians were supplying the weapons directly or whether the Sunnis were buying them on the black market.
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BAGHDAD: Powerful roadside bombs believed to be of Iranian origin and considered the signature weapon of Shiite militias are turning up in the hands of Sunni insurgents south of Baghdad, a U.S. general said Sunday.
Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, commander of the Army's Task Force Marne, said the presence of "explosively formed penetrators," or EFPs, in Sunni weapons caches suggests some degree of Iranian influence among Sunni as well as Shiite extremists.
"We're seeing Iranian EFPs in the hands of Sunni extremists," Lynch told a group of Western reporters.
But Lynch, whose command covers the southern rim of Baghdad and mostly Shiite areas to the south, said it was unclear whether the Iranians were supplying the weapons directly or whether the Sunnis were buying them on the black market.
Read the rest at the International Herald Tribune
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