The top U.S. and MNFI Commander General David Petraeus said “Iranian training of militants posed a serious threat to Iraq’s stability”, Baghdad T.V. reported on Thursday, Jan. 17.

General Petraeus was inspecting the border post at Zurbitiyah, east of Baghdad in Wassit province, where coalition forces are to establish a base in a bid to stop dispatch of weapons and insurgents into Iraq.

New technology has been installed from mid-2007 at the post to screen trucks, luggage, and people and further upgrades are on the way, US commanders said.

“It is one of the important border crossings which we have been putting a lot of effort into in the last six months,” he said.