perseus
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I can't believe the Iraqi government spent $85m at $40k a peice on this useless contraption for 'detecting' explosives which is widely used by the Iraqi security forces.
This consists of nothing more than a 'dowsing rod' an empty box and (to look authentic and modern) a card reader and cards, supposedly for calibrating the machine for detecting different explosives. These have embedded circuits which are the same as those used to prevent theft from supermarkets!
It was exposed on a news programme last night and has just been banned to countries with serving British forces, but not others. In other words if governments are stupid enough to pay we will happily sell them tea-leaf readers.
This guy should be sent through a minefield equipped with it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8476381.stm
This consists of nothing more than a 'dowsing rod' an empty box and (to look authentic and modern) a card reader and cards, supposedly for calibrating the machine for detecting different explosives. These have embedded circuits which are the same as those used to prevent theft from supermarkets!
It was exposed on a news programme last night and has just been banned to countries with serving British forces, but not others. In other words if governments are stupid enough to pay we will happily sell them tea-leaf readers.
This guy should be sent through a minefield equipped with it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8476381.stm
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