Follow BeltwayBlips on TwitterGeneral: Iran backs off lethal EFP bomb in Iraq (AP)
Published 12/12/2008 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
AP - Iran is no longer actively supplying Iraqi militias with a particularly lethal kind of roadside bomb, a decision that suggests a strategic shift by the Iranian leadership, U.S. and Iraqi authorities said Thursday.
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