In the shadow of the bombed-out al Hamra hotel, there stands a familiar sight before the car-choked traffic of Baghdad’s Jadiriyah Street – a uniformed police officer, his ADE-651 in hand.
Small, plastic, and deemed useless by the US military, the British government and many ordinary Iraqis, this hand-held device remains the primary way vehicles are screened for explosives at checkpoints in the Iraqi capital. One by one, vehicles are waved forward and told to wait while security forces walk parallel, waiting for their antenna to twitch.
via The most dangerous thing in the Iraq War: Bomb ….
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I saw a video by James Randi on this:
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I knew I’d seen it not too long ago. derp
A country with an IED problem and Bomb Detectors that don’t even work for the general Police Force population. This is one twisted world we live in.
My buddy from the Army just came and visited last month. His job involves finding IEDs and other bombs. He relies on dogs.
He also said that The Hurt Locker is so wildly inaccurate and fake that he couldn’t finish it.
I’m glad I’m not in the business, because I like liking it.
You mean they don’t cut wires?