Iraqi Centrifuge Experts

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Iraq

EMIS Procurement
Matrix Churchill
H+H Metalform
Iraq's Acquisition of Gas Centrifuge Technology
- Part I
- Part II
- Part III
Schaublin
SMB
Karl Otto Brauer
Banca Nationale de Lavoro

Pakistan

Ernest Piffl/Team GmbH
Pakistani Scientists' Nuclear Assistance to Terrorists

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Dr. Adel is the second man from the left. David Albright is on the far right. Between Albright and Adel are three other top Iraqi centrifuge experts. The picture was taken in 1996 in the old office of the head of Iraq's gas centrifuge program at Rashdiya.