U.S. says finds new Iran-made weapons in Iraq: report

Fri Apr 25, 2008 4:10am EDT
 
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. military says it has found caches of newly made Iranian weapons in Iraq, leading senior officials to think that Iran is still shipping weapons to Iraq, even though it pledged not to, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

The United States plans to publicize the caches in coming days, the report said, quoting two senior commanders, who said a presentation was tentatively planned for Monday.

Officials in Baghdad and Washington said the newly made arms, consisting of mortars, rockets and explosives, had date stamps indicating they were manufactured in the past two months, the Journal reported.

A U.S. Department of Defense spokesman said he had not seen the Journal report and that he was unable to comment.

(Reporting by Aarthi Sivaraman; Editing by Eric Walsh)

 

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