An Iraqi police officer using a bomb detector that has been likened to a dowsing rod.(Khalil Al-Murshidi/AFP/Getty Images )
Iraqis spent $80m On ADE651 Bomb Detectors Described As Useless -- Times Online
The Iraqi parliament is looking into the sale by a British company of “bomb detectors” costing millions of pounds amid claims that they do not work.
In the past two years Iraq’s security forces have spent more than $80 million (£47 million) on the detectors made by ATSC Ltd, based in Yeovil, Somerset.
The devices, which consist of little more than a telescopic radio aerial on a black plastic handle, were each sold for the price of a new car and are in use at army and police checkpoints across the bomb-ravaged country.
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My Comment: One cannot help but scream at this situation. It is so obviously a scam that people should be charged for being complicit in murder. Unfortunately .... since this company is in the U.K. and they have weak laws that pertain to these crimes .... I doubt that anything is going to happen.
Scam? Scam?
ReplyDeleteNext you'll claim our WMD detectors didn't work.