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Article: Iraq Bets By Bomb Detector US Calls Useless.
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- APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula
- Article date:
- November 9, 2009
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Despite huge bombings rattling Iraq as US troops withdraw, the government's security forces rely on a sensor device to detect bombs and weapons which the US military and technical experts say is useless. Known as the ADE 651, this costs from $16,500 to $60,000 each. Iraq has bought more than 1,500 of them. The small hand-held wand, with a telescopic antenna on a swivel, is being used at hundreds of check-points. But The New York Times on Nov. 3 quoted retired US Air Force officer Lt-Col Hal Bidlack as saying the ADE 651 worked "on the same principle as an Ouija board" the power of suggestion. He described the wand as nothing more than an explosives divining rod.
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