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September 7, 2002
   
The US says it has intercepted several shipments of industrial equipment, capable to assisting in building nuclear weapons, headed for Iraq. Such smuggling has been a highly profitable business throughout the 1990s. Jordan, Turkey and Iran have, to varying degrees, looked the other way at this business.