Concrete, that is!
"Iraq may remove some checkpoints; Proposal is sign of security gains" by Rebecca Santana, Associated Press / December 29, 2010
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s leaders are investigating the possibility of removing some of Baghdad’s hundreds of hated checkpoints because of the improving security situation, the city’s military spokesman said yesterday....
The checkpoints are staffed by Iraqi soldiers and police and designed to catch insurgents, but they also slow down traffic in the already congested city....
The blast walls and checkpoints give the city the air of being under a military occupation.
As if they are not?
Last year, the removal of some walls was followed by a series of blasts targeting government institutions that killed hundreds of people, and some of the concrete barriers went back up.
Who didn't want them down in the first place?
Baghdad residents generally abhor the checkpoints, which can make life unbearable for people going to work or school....
Hey, IT'S LIBERATION, you ungrateful....
A driver described the frustration of watching high-ranking government officials in security convoys with lights flashing bypass the long line of vehicles at the checkpoints while regular citizens stew, sometimes for hours.
It's called freedom.
Many Baghdadis don’t consider the checkpoints to be remotely effective.
Security forces at the checkpoints use a wandlike device made in the United Kingdom that is supposed to be able to detect explosives in vehicles but has been widely discredited. British authorities have banned its export to Iraq and Afghanistan after a report raised serious questions about it....
Iraqi officials say the machines are useful and the checkpoints have their place in maintaining security....
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FLASHBACK:
BAGHDAD - The ADE 651 is a hand-held wand with no batteries or internal electronic components, ostensibly powered by the static electricity of the user, who needs to walk in place to charge it. The only moving part is what looks like a radio antenna on a swivel, which swings to point toward the presence of weapons or explosives....
It's not funny because PEOPLE are DYING, but DON'T TELL ME SOMEONE REALLY FELL FOR THIS SHIT?
Barnum was right: there is a sucker born every second, and the world is now full of them!
The owner of a British company that supplies possibly worthless bomb detectors to Iraq has been arrested on fraud charges and export of the devices has been banned, British government officials confirmed yesterday. Iraqi officials reacted angrily to the news, noting a series of horrific bombings in the past six months despite widespread use of the bomb detectors at hundreds of checkpoints in Baghdad.
Oooooh.
“This company not only caused grave and massive losses of funds, but it has caused grave and massive losses of the lives of innocent Iraqi civilians, by the hundreds and thousands, from attacks that we thought we were immune to because we have this device,’’ said Ammar Tuma, a member of the Iraqi parliament’s Security and Defense Committee.
Well, now you know better about your "liberators."
Liberating you only from your money over a lie.
But the Ministry of the Interior has not withdrawn the device from duty and police officers continue to use them.
Did SOMEONE JUST SAY FALSE FLAG INSIDE JOBS, folks?
They KNOW they DON'T WORK but are USING THEM anyway?
Iraqi officials said they would begin an investigation into why their government paid $85 million to the British company, ATSC Ltd., for about 800 of the bomb detectors, called ADE 651s. The New York Times first reported official doubts about the device in November, citing American military officials and technical experts who said the ADE 651 was useless, despite widespread reliance on it in Iraq.
Oh, what a STINKING STENCH, folks!
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At least someone is profiting from the war, huh?
