Nassr State Enterprise for Mechanical Industries (or Nesser Establishment for Mechanical Industries): Part of the Ministry of Industry and Military Industrialization (MIMI), described above. Nassr procured equipment for Project 1728, a SCUD modification effort; was involved in Iraq's nuclear program; was the procurement arm for Taji, a site used to produce chemical munitions; and, according to Western intelligence documents, was "responsible for the development and manufacture of gas centrifuges for uranium enrichment."/16 Nassr also ran artillery ammunition plants; purchased "high-capacity driving nozzles" for missiles from a German company; may have been a part of the European procurement network run by Iraqi front company TDG in London; was the main customer of Matrix Churchill, another Iraqi front company in England; and was linked to the Condor II intermediate-range missile project. 6. Measuring, calibration, and testing equipment (ECCN 1529) Endnotes 1. "BXA Facts" (press release), U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Export Administration, March 11, 1991. The list covers a period from 1985 to August 2, 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait, and reveals that three of the approvals were for over $1 billion worth of cargo trucks, which were not shipped. Id. at p. 3. See also, Stuart Auerbach, "$1.5 Billion in U.S. Sales to Iraq," Washington Post, March 11, 1991, p. Al; Michael Wines, "U.S. Tells of Prewar Technology Sales to Iraq Worth $500 million," New York Times, March 12, 1991, p. A13. 2. Mark Hibbs, "Components For Pakistan Were Intended For HighEnriched U, German Confirms," Nuclear Fuel, May 18, 1987. 3. Mark Hibbs, "Intelligence Reports Identify Two Sites as Key to 4. "Involvement in Iraqi Gun Factory Reported," Der Spiegel 5. United States Government Accounting Office, "Arms Control: U.S. 6. N.B. Namody, Director of the Saad General Establishment, letter of http://www.wisconsinproject.org/pubs/reports/1991/licensemd.html 11/19/2002 |