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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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<p>Figure 3. Inside a Schaublin 110-CNC-R Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) turning machine. This is the type of machine Iraq ordered from Schaublin in 1988 to make components for its gas centrifuge program.