"There has been a decision to go after these networks," the Times quoted Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice saying in an interview conducted on Friday before leaving on a Middle East trip.
She said Bush issued the order several months ago "after a period of time in which we saw increasing activity" among Iranians in Iraq "and increasing lethality in what they were producing."
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