Senior American military officials gave a briefing in Baghdad on Iranian weapons that have killed 170 Americans and wounded 620 since 2004: EFPs, or explosively formed penetrators, that release armor-cutting molten copper balls.(The Week)(Brief article)

From: National Review | Date: March 5, 2007 | Copyright information

Senior American military officials gave a briefing in Baghdad on Iranian weapons that have killed 170 Americans and wounded 620 since 2004: EFPs, or explosively formed penetrators, that release armor-cutting molten copper balls. The briefers said that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps'Quds Force, an arm of the Iranian government, ships the EFPs into Iraq. Members of the Quds force were recently arrested in the northern town of Erbil, and in the Baghdad home of a Shiite politici...

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