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Iraqi Prime Minister Orders Police To Stop Using Fake Bomb Detectors

After a pair of bombings that killed at least 200 people in Baghdad, Iraq's prime minister has ordered police to stop using bomb detectors that were found to be a scam years ago.  The BBC notes these fake detectors originally got their start in the U.S., when a used car salesman simply rebranded an already ineffective golf ball tracker as a detector of drugs and explosives.  The FBI reported the fraud in 1996, but the scam was brought to the U.K. under a different name. It was eventually dubbed the ADE-651 and sold to Iraq, Niger and Saudi Arabia, among others. SEE MORE: "Meet A Few Of Iraq's Orphans Who Lost Their Parents To ISIS" In 2013, British conman James McCormick was given a 10-year prison sentence over the ADE-651. He made tens of millions of dollars selling the device to Iraq's government, yet Iraqi checkpoints have continued to use that useless equipment.   A police officer in Baghdad told The Washington Post on Monday morning: "We know it doesn't work, everybody knows it doesn't work and the man who made it is in prison now. But I don't have any other choice."  When the prime minister visited the scenes of the bombings Sunday, people threw rocks at his convoy and called him a thief.  This video includes clips from CCTV, The Telegraph, Channel 4, CNN and Gopher and images from Getty Images and the U.S. Navy.  Newsy is your source for concise, unbiased video news and analysis covering the top stories from around the world. With persistent curiosity and no agenda, we strive to fuel meaningful conversations by highlighting multiple sides of every story. Newsy delivers the news and perspective you need without the hype and bias common to many news sources. See more at http://www.newsy.com/ Like Newsy on Facebook:   / newsyvideos