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Nestled along busy routes filled with innocent, unsuspecting Iraqi citizens and caring little who unfortunately cross their path, explosively formed penetrators wield mammoth destructive power and the potential to violently kill or maim with a single ignition.

Update: Welcome, Conservative Grapevine readers. I hope you will look around. If you have a question, just ask. My goal here is to  help you understand how the Army works. You’ve seen on the news how Iranian made EFPs are being used as roadside bombs to attack US vehicles in Iraq.

You’ve seen on the news how Iranian made EFPs are being used as roadside bombs to attack US vehicles in Iraq. But what is an EFP? Early IEDs in the Iraq War were mostly artillery shells wired to explode. The first Humvees in Iraq had thin armor that would not protect very well against nearby explosions.

This is an important update to an article I posted Friday the 6th, it appears that the “Hezbollah” or Qods force operatives captured are the agents that planned and executed the Karbala attack. You might remember this from early last year — the US compound was raided in a sophisticated attack that

Debka File According to intelligence sources, Hamas will soon receive EFPs from Iran with which to blow up Israel armored vehicles by remote control from inside the Gaza Strip. Internal security...

Appease Iran? by James Lyons, The Washington Times In a German editorial last year, Mathias Dapfner, CEO of the huge German publisher Axel Springer AG, wrote a scathing attack in Die Walt, Germany's largest daily paper, against Europe's failure to grasp the extent of the Islamic threat.

From Pajamas Media: Some of the explosives used against U.S. forces are so sophisticated that they must have originated in Iran. Relatively rare pictures obtained by PJM show their effects on American forces' vehicles.

How Iran Is Killing U.S. Troops in Iraq by Bob Owens Some of the explosives used against U.S. forces are so sophisticated that they must have originated in Iran. Relatively rare pictures obtained by PJM show their effects on American forces' vehicles.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates recently gave a speech, emphasizing the need to take care of the troops over the need to prepare for future conflicts: The Defense Department must focus on current war demands, even if it means straining the U.S. armed forces and devoting less time and money to future threats, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday.

By Cernig Finally, a mainstream media outlet willing to actually be sceptical about Bush administration allegations over Iranian meddling in Iraq. TIME magazine's Mark Kukis and Abigail Hauslohner take a look at those allegations and describe them as "based on speculation".