Excellent Post article giving historical perspective on the Iraqi EOD efforts
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/specials/leftofboom/index.html
US House of Representative Committee on Armed Services Report on the Joint IED Defeat Organization, Nov. 2008
http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA490963&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf