From: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/dailybriefing/story/0,12965,927233,00.html
(You'll have to scroll down a bit to find it)
Meanwhile it has emerged - as a result of detective work on the
internet by a Guardian reader - that the explosion in a Baghdad
market which killed more than 60 people last Friday was indeed
caused by a cruise missile and not an Iraqi anti-aircraft rocket
as the US has suggested.
A metal fragment found at the scene by British journalist Robert Fisk
carried various markings, including "MFR 96214 09". This, our reader
pointed out in an email, is a manufacturer's identification number
known as a "cage code".
Cage codes can be looked up on the internet (www.gidm.dlis.dla.mil),
and keying in the number 96214 traces the fragment back to a plant
in McKinney, Texas, owned by the Raytheon Company.
Raytheon, whose headquarters are in Lexington, Massachusetts, aspires
"to be the most admired defence and aerospace systems supplier
through world-class people and technology", according to its website
(www.raytheon.com). It makes a vast array of military equipment, including
the AGM-129 cruise missile which is launched from B-52 bombers.
NB: to do the search yourself, go to the link given and choose "Business Identification Cross-Reference System (BINCS)". In the form that appears, enter 96214 in the "Cage" field. Aside from whatever this is being made by Raytheon, I can't parse it.
Curtiss