That paragraph is still in the boston.com version of the piece available on the web here:

http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2007/04/06/iraqi_us_forces_sweep_through_iraqi_city/

These comments also support the common knowledge that EFPs and IEDs are being manufactured inside Iraq:

Intelligence officials have long blamed Iran for supplying EFP parts, but this remains in doubt. In any case, as Janes reports, even if the original technology came from Iran,

….the knowledge required to manufacture and use EFPs may have become so widespread that Iranian assistance is no longer required.

According to London’s Telegraph newspaper,

The Ministry of Defence has attempted to play down the effectiveness of the weapons, suggesting that they are “crude” or “improvised” explosive devices which have killed British troops more out of luck than judgement.

However, this newspaper understands that Government scientists have established that the mines are precision-made weapons which have been turned on a lathe by craftsmen trained in the manufacture of munitions.

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At least two EFP factories have since been found in Iraq, facilities which produced the thin copper ‘lenses’ for EFPs.

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Journalist Andrew Cockburn reported in February that in November 2006 U.S. troops raiding a Baghdad machine shop had discovered a pile of copper discs “stamped out as part of what was clearly an ongoing order.”

In Iraq, Anyone Can Make a Bomb”

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Generic quote from u.s. govt sources and the Establishment media:

“The Bush administration has accused Iran of providing the [EFP] technology to Shiite insurgents in Iraq.”

* OR, on the other hand the Shiites and anyone else in the world who wanted the information got it from American internet websites: *

Segmented kinetic energy explosively formed penetrator assembly [Published 28 January 2003]

Explosively Formed Penetrator (EFP) and Fragmenting Warhead [Published 25 September 2003]

Remote detonation of explosive charges [Published 05 December 1989]

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Iran-Etats-Unis : drôle de guerre en Irak

….C’est là que nous rencontrons le major Scott A. Pettigrew, responsable du renseignement militaire américain pour la province de Diyala. Lui ne croit pas à une connexion entre l’Iran et Al-Qaeda. En fait, il contredit placidement la plupart des accusations qui circulent à Washington contre l’Iran. « Nous n’avons jamais arrêté aucun agent iranien dans cette province et nous n’avons jamais intercepté de flux financier en provenance d’Iran. Je n’ai jamais vu aucune activité ni présence de la Force Al-Qods. Je ne vois rien qui ressemble ici à une guerre par procuration avec l’Iran. »

Roughly translated into English:

Iran-United States : Peculiarity of war in Iraq

….That’s where we meet Major Scott A. Pettigrew, man in charge of American military intelligence for the province of Diyala. He does not believe in a connection between Iran and Al-Qaeda. Indeed, he calmly contradicts most of the accusations against Iran that circulate in Washington. “We never stopped an Iranian agent in this province and we have never intercepted finances flowing [into Diyala province] from Iran. I never saw activity of or the presence of the Al-Quds force. I see nothing here that resembles a war by proxy with Iran.”