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The success of the home-made bomb
Source: The Times

"Every month up to 300 improvised explosive devices are detonated somewhere in the world — and that's outside Iraq and Afghanistan. Billions are being spent to find the technology to beat the home-made bomb — but the terrorists are always one step ahead"

Securing Iraqi roads a matter of tit for tat
Source: stripes.com

Thursday night found the soldiers of Troop A, 2nd Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment on yet another patrol along dark roads just outside Taji. The soldiers stopped and searched three trucks on the road after the area's 10 p.m.

Tip leads platoon to EFP, weapons caches
Source: stripes.com

A U.S. Army platoon southeast of Baghdad discovered two caches of explosively formed penetrators and other weapons this weekend that commanders say they may be able to tie directly to Iran.

U.S. commander says EFP attacks have fallen dramatically in 6 months
Source: stripes.com

U.S. forces traveling Iraq's highways are seeing far fewer attacks from armor-piercing explosively formed penetrators compared to six months ago, according to one U.S. commander.

As more weapons seized, roadside bombings at three-year low
Source: stripes.com

BAGHDAD — Roadside bomb attacks receded to a three-year low last month while weapons cache finds have doubled from October 2006, Multi-National Force–Iraq officials said Tuesday.

TIME: US Officials Believe There Will Be An Attack on Iran's Revolutionary Guard and Its Nuclear Facilities In The Next Six Months.
Source: TIME

Reports that the Bush Administration will put Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the terrorism list can be read in one of two ways: it's either more bluster or, ominously, a wind-up for a strike on Iran.

In Iraq, anyone can make a bomb
Source: campaigniran.org

PRESIDENT BUSH HAS now definitively stated that bombs known as explosively formed penetrators — EFPs, which have proved especially deadly for U.S. troops in Iraq — are made in Iran and exported to Iraq. But in November, U.S.

IRAN : IED lies
Source: ZNet

This is an excellent investigation into the lies of Pentagon about Iran's involvement in killing Americans in Iraq (not that I believe IRI is innocent, but 2 wrongs does not make right).

Paths To War - The Bush Administration's Casus Belli

President Bush's press conference gives new support to those that see a war with Iran brewing in the White House's strategy of an Iraqi "surge." Despite an impending fight with Congressional Democrats over the viability of the Surge itself, the Administration's focus has shifted …

Saudis and Jordan also arm their proxies in Iraq's civil war
Source: The First Post

Every day there is more evidence of what an idiotic move this war has been from the beginning.

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