A Good Turn!

Yesterday whilst babysitting I watched a very interesting report on BBC about the “Bomb detector” which was sold for millions of pounds to the IRAQI government. The inventor is the British man Jim McCormick. In the report it was investigated and confirmed by several scientists that the bomb detector doesn’t work at all! Jim McCormick refused talking to the journalists and hid instead in his million dollar farmhouse with horses and a porsche in front of it. The man has earned millions by purchasing the predicted “miracle instrument” to more than 20 countries.

ADE-651

The ADE-651 is said to detect bombs, drugs or other explosives, simply by pointing with the metal stick towards it in a range of 1km. But as scientists found out there is no way that this can be possible. You could achieve the same effect by putting a bended stick into a ruler and subconsciously you make it point towards the centre of your attention. The special chip card which is supposedly specifically modified is nothing more than the chip which is inserted into the goods in a shop to prevent theft. It is unbelievable that the creator Jim McCormick would sell something so useless and even dangerous since it lets the user believe to detect explosives for $60 000 per unit!

The Iraqi Government the biggest demander of the ADE-651 has already spent $85 millions on them. Unfortunately even though the results have been presented to the Iraqi government it still trusts in the effectiveness of the device.

General Jihad said ”We conducted several tests on them, and found them successful”.

On Friday the British government has set up a ban for exporting the “Bomb detector” to Iraq and Afghanistan. Sadly the government can’t forbid it to other countries as well because “that our legal power to control these goods is based on the risk that they could cause harm to UK and other friendly forces.“

On Saturday Jim McCormick was arrested on suspicion of fraud by misrepresentation.