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Officials said the Iraq Army had captured Iranian-origin rockets, ammunition and a range of explosives. They said the army has also captured radios and gas masks believed supplied by Iran.

"Some of the rockets have 'made in Iran' on those rockets," U.S. Army Gen. Richard Nash, head of Multinational Division-South, said.

In a Sept. 8 briefing, Nash said large amounts of Iranian and other weapons were found in the provinces of Dhi Qar and Maysan. He said the Iraq Army's 10th Division captured dozens of explosively-formed penetrator plates, magnetic car sticky bombs, rocket-propelled grenades, hundreds of machine guns, assault rifles, and thousands of small-arms rounds.

The weapons caches, found in northern Maysan, also included more than 100 rockets, artillery rounds and mortar shells. Officials said the area in Maysan, dubbed the Southern Triangle, was raided by Iraqi troops in August 2009 in an effort to prevent the flow of weapons to Iranian-supported Shi'ite militias.