Iran had a complex clandestine procurement network to obtain munitions and critical materials.

They knew Iraq had a clandestine military procurement network operating in this country.

But they are a base upon which his secret military procurement network, probably the most widespread and skillful in the world, can build.

"It's hard to completely eradicate procurement networks."

Libya has since renounced its nuclear weapons program and opened its secret efforts - including documents shedding light on clandestine procurement networks - to international inspection.

The relative importance of obsidian as stone tool material suggests the existence of a procurement network and distribution of this material from the Anatolian sources.

If this happened, we would lose our intelligence access to Habobi's procurement network.

And it has refused to yield the details of its clandestine procurement network for obtaining critical arms technology abroad.

The report said secret procurement networks could help developing countries such as Iraq acquire chemical and biological weapons and ballistic missiles.

In addition, there were a number of intelligence reports, many generated by the Pentagon, on Iraq's extensive procurement network around the world.