Boy, this gets me fired up. This guy sold fake bomb detectors to Iraq, and wins the Bernie Madoff award for fraud for this year. I would like to see this guy do hard time in an Iraqi prison, along with the dorks in the Iraqi military who bought off on this thing.
What is most disturbing is that the US DoS and DoD had put out memos warning against such devices, and I am sure they were screaming at Iraq to reconsider. I just don’t understand how a few leaders in the Iraqi military could be so dumb as to buy off on this thing. I am sure someone was getting paid to look the other way.
Or how the Iraqi’s disgust for dogs (bomb sniffing dogs), prevents them from doing the life saving deed of actually using such an animal. Dogs work, as does actually searching vehicles or paying for xray machines that scan vehicles. But magic wands? Oh hell no.
And now hundreds of Iraqis and many coalition forces and contractors have been killed or wounded, because some Iraqi check point used this crap and let slip suicide bombers and VBIEDs into target areas. –Matt
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Jim McCormick, loser deluxe.
Boss who sold bomb detectors to Iraq arrested over fraud
Friday 22 January 2010
The managing director of a British company that has been selling bomb-detecting equipment to security forces in Iraq was arrested on suspicion of fraud today.
At the same time, the British government announced that it was imposing a ban on the export of the ADE-651 detectors because it was concerned they could put the lives of British forces or other friendly forces at risk.
The government promised to help investigate the multimillion-pound deal between the company, ATSC, and the security forces in Iraq.
Iraq has invested more than £50m in buying the devices and training people to use them. Police and military personnel have used them to search vehicles and pedestrians for explosives. But concerns over their effectiveness – and fears they could put lives at risk – have been raised.