(New York Times) Eric Schmitt - Many of the new, more sophisticated roadside bombs used to attack American and government forces in Iraq have been designed in Iran and shipped in from there, suggesting a new area of cooperation between Iranian Shiites and Iraqi Sunnis to drive American forces out, U.S. military and intelligence officials said Friday. One senior military officer said "tens" of the devices had been smuggled in and used against allied forces in the past several weeks. Some shipments have contained both components and fully manufactured devices, and may have been spirited into Iraq along the porous Iranian border by the Iranian-backed, anti-Israeli terrorist group Hizballah, or by Iran's Revolutionary Guard. American commanders say these bombs closely matched those that Hizballah has used against Israel.
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