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Article: Rogue' Shi'ite militias using Iranian bombs; 'Splinter' group of al-Sadr's 'Army' cited in attacks.(WORLD)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- February 18, 2007
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Byline: Sharon Behn, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Lethal Iranian bomb technology spotlighted by U.S. officials in Iraq last week is being used by rogue elements of Shi'ite militias that are not under any kind of central command, the U.S. military says.
The evidence presented at a briefing in Baghdad last week further confuses an enemy landscape in which death is as likely to come at the hands of government-allied Shi'ite militias as from disgruntled former Ba'athist extremists and their al Qaeda allies.
U.S. military officials think members of Shi'ite militias most of which have links with both Iran and Iraq's Shi'ite-led government are receiving and ...