This will make you angry(maybe not as much as the pyramid thread)

[88m3]

BBC News UK
11 July 2012 Last updated at 14:47 ET
'Bomb detector' maker Jim McCormick faces fraud charges
By Meirion Jones and Caroline Hawley BBC Newsnight

A businessman who sold a bomb-detecting device to 20 countries, including Iraq, has been charged with fraud, Avon and Somerset Police said.

Jim McCormick, 55, has been on bail for two-and-a-half years while police examined the sale of the device.

A BBC Newsnight investigation in 2010 showed the ADE-651 did not work and led to the British government banning its export to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Mr McCormick will appear at City of London Magistrates' Court on Thursday.

Avon and Somerset Police said that Mr McCormick would face six charges including producing and supplying the devices, knowing that they were designed or adapted for use in fraud.

The device had been sold to a range of Middle-Eastern countries and as far afield as Bangkok.

The Iraqi government spent $85m (£52m) on the hand-held detectors which were used at most checkpoints in Baghdad.

BBC News - 'Bomb detector' maker Jim McCormick faces fraud charges

And we wonder where all the money went, let alone all the people who may have died.

 

[daze23]

yeah, I've heard of this

it's a fukkin bomb detecting dowsing rod

 

[Jello Biafra]

How do you spend that much money on a device with such a specific function without testing it properly?

 

[88m3]

How do you spend that much money on a device with such a specific function without testing it properly?

It happened with everything the DOD and MOD didn't have the suplies or time so they rushed everything. The samething even happened with bulletproof vests.

 

[Type Username Here]

You know what we called bomb detectors in Iraq?


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