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Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article7069779.ece
Iranians Train Taliban to Use Roadside Bombs
(Times-UK) Miles Amoore - Two Taliban commanders revealed to The Sunday Times that hundreds of Taliban insurgents have been trained in Iran to kill NATO forces in Afghanistan. The commanders said Iranian officials paid them to attend three-month courses where they had learned to mount complex ambushes and lay improvised explosive devices (IEDs), which have been responsible for most of the deaths of British troops in Helmand province. The first month was devoted to teaching the Taliban how to attack convoys and how to escape before NATO forces could respond. During the second month they were shown how to plant IEDs in sequence so that the rescuers of soldiers wounded in one blast would be caught in further explosions. The third month was spent on storming bases and checkpoints.