Iraqi security forces rely on magic to [not] detect bombs

[Ghoulish Delight]

Apparently Iraqi security forces have put in heavy use at checkpoints devices that amount to divining rods. story here (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/middleeast/04sensors.html).

The bomb that killed 155 people last week would have had to go through one such checkpoint. Would those 155 people been saved if the security forces didn't believe in magic? Do people still want to argue that pseudoscience and superstition don't hurt anyone?

[scaeagles]

Seems to me like some Iraqi higher ups are getting kickbacks from the company the manufactures them.

[BarTopDancer]

Haliburton?

[Moonliner]

I say we load up 9 crates with high explosives and one without. Then ask the president of the company that makes the wands to select which one he would like to sit on as we set them off.

[Ghoulish Delight]

He's probably had a drink of some water that had a bomb in it once and has since been diluted 1 million times, so he'd be immune to high explosives anyway.

[Moonliner]

He's probably had a drink of some water that had a bomb in it once and has since been diluted 1 million times, so he'd be immune to high explosives anyway.

Into the sack you go!

[€uroMeinke]

But what if it worked?

[scaeagles]

Haliburton?

According to the article it is a British Company called AtSC Ltd.

[Moonliner]

According to the article it is a British Company called AtSC Ltd.

This company is killing our service members and they have a website. I wonder if their corporate PC's are on the same network. Hummm..