Iraq Bomb Know-How Said to Come From Iran

"WASHINGTON (AP) - Technology and materials for making homemade bombs used against British and other U.S.-allied troops in southern Iraq are entering the country from neighboring Iran, a senior British general said Friday.

Maj. Gen. Jim B. Dutton of the British Royal Marines told reporters at the Pentagon that it's not clear whether the smuggling of illegal arms and explosives across the border is sanctioned by the Iranian government.

"Certainly we've seen movements of explosives across the border," he said in an interview by video-teleconference from Basra.

Dutton is the commander of British-led forces in southeastern Iraq, a region whose predominantly Shiite Muslim population has extensive and historic ties to Iran."
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