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.
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