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Dowsing for bombs. Yeah, it really happened.

• rumcajz 12y ago
  Interesting. Are these people so confident that they are willing to risk they lives searching for mines or did they somehow done it from a safe distance?
  • jdietrich 12y ago
    The Iraqi government spent $85m on bogus bomb detectors that were just dowsing rods in a fancy box. Nobody at the interior ministry bothered to do any testing, or even to take the devices apart - they contained no electronics that could possibly have detected anything. Several other governments have purchased similar devices. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651
  • moreati 12y ago
    I believe 'dowsing for bombs' is a reference to http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22380368 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22380368. In which case the perpetrators sold the kits to governments/agencies i.e. third parties were being exposed to the bombs.