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Source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/12/iraq-counts-on-magic-wands-to-stop-isis.html

Iraq Counts on Magic Wands to Stop ISIS

(Daily Beast) Jacob Siegel - Between 2007 and 2009 the Iraqi government spent $85 million to purchase ADE-651 bomb detectors that are still carried today by police and soldiers manning checkpoints in Baghdad. The "magic wands" were sold by British businessman James McCormick, who repackaged a device designed to find golf balls. In 2010 McCormick was arrested by British authorities for fraud and was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2013. The wands provide a visible symbol of Iraq's rampant corruption. They were bought despite warnings that they didn't work and kept in service after it was proved they didn't work.

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