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issues that will recur later in our analysis of ISC’s activities. Matrix Churchill had only been created in 1987, after the head of Iraqi military procurement, Safa al Habobi, funded a merger of TMG Engineering and TI Machine Tools, as a means of ensuring a reliable supply of advanced equipment for the Iraqi war machine. At the same time, as the British directors of Matrix Churchill were supplying the Ministry of Intelligence with extensive information about Iraq, no official barriers were put up to limit the firm’s extensive exports. However, even though the Minister