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To: Lael
United Kingdom Company/Individual: International Computers Limited - UK - Nuclear Also Known As: Program: Nuclear Date Occurred: 1989 Activity Memo: Licensed by the U.S. to sell over $56,000 worth of computers for programming and production control to the State Establishment for Heavy Engineering Equipment (SEHEE) where U.N. inspectors found precision machine tools designed to be computer-operated (SEHEE manufactured magnets, vacuum chambers, ion sources and collector components for calutrons to enrich uranium to nuclear weapon grade, and was one of two agencies responsible for establishing Al Furat, Iraq's first centrifuge factory).

Germany Company/Individual: Inwako - Nuclear Also Known As: Program: Nuclear Date Occurred: 1989 Activity Memo: Supplied U.K.-made ring magnets that stabilize rotors used in centrifuge uranium enrichment, including 125 aluminium nickel cobalt magnets made by several U.K. firms, and 20-50 samarium cobalt magnets procured via U.K. firm Endshire Export Marketing and Iraqi firm TDG; found by German Economics ministry to have arranged circuitous delivery.

United Kingdom Company/Individual: Matrix Churchill Ltd. - Nuclear & Military Also Known As: Formerly known as TI Machine Tools Program: Nuclear, military Date Occurred: 1987 to 1990 Activity Memo: Greatest single supplier of sensitive computer-controlled machine tools found by U.N. inspectors at nuclear weapon sites; supplied three percent of British exports to Iraq during 1980s, including £8.5 million of machinery in 1988 alone; supplied $36 million worth of high-tech lathes, useful for cutting high-quality steel used in centrifuges, manufactured and supplied at least 34 centrifuge components to Badr General Establishment (joint venture with SEHEE to establish the Al Furat centrifuge factory) for Project K-1000; exports allegedly approved to gather intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs, even though the British government knew the exports were for military purposes, including possible use to produce components of a nuclear weapon; supplied on-site training for Iraqi technicians to use and program the machine tools; manufactured 52 turning machines found in Iraq, of which 33 were capable of being used to produce nuclear weapons; manufactured 94 machine tools found at Hatteen, (the high-explosive test facility at the Al Atheer complex, Iraq's main nuclear weapon development site) of which 50 appear to be capable of being used to produce nuclear weapons; received orders for 141 lathes worth £19 million; received letters of credit from Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) in Atlanta, Georgia, including two for £8,950,000 worth of precision machines and lathes, and £3,430,480 worth of product machine kits, for the State Establishment for Heavy Engineering Equipment (SEHEE, established the Al Furat centrifuge factory a joint venture with Badr; produced magnets, vacuum chambers, ion sources and collector components for calutrons to enrich uranium; part of MIMI); main Iraqi client was Nassr State Establishment (procured equipment for the SCUD enhancement program and for Taji [a chemical weapon and industrial arms complex which also produced components for uranium enrichment]; ran artillery plants, and linked to the Condor II intermediate-range missile project); identified by U.S. Treasury Department as an Iraqi front company; 89% Iraqi-owned in 1990.

I need better keywords than just magnets. I don't understand what I'm looking up.

23 posted on 03/09/2003 3:27:43 PM PST by Calpernia
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To: Calpernia
N. Korea produced agreed upon banned highly enriched uranium during the 'agreement period' with the clinton administration ... right under the noses of the IAEA inspectors, and N.Korea is a smaller geographic area than Iraq. ElBaradai hasn't an ounce of credibility on Iraq, in my opinion. Decapitating and destroying the Baathist party in Iraq, then searching the entire country is the only way we will stop Saddam Insane from aquiring nuclear weapons. sadly, I suspect even the lying, obstructing, treacherous democrats know this but choose to ignore it in favor of cancelling this administration's efforts to protect us, longterm.
24 posted on 03/09/2003 4:25:40 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
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