UK halts 'bomb detector' exports

Al Jazeera English 2012-05-29

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Britain has banned the export of a hand-held machine marketed as a bomb-detection device in Iraq and Afghanistan because of allegations that it does not work.

Meanwhile, the head of the UK-based company that makes the device has been arrested on suspicion of fraud.

Al Jazeera's Rory Challands reports.

[Jan 25, 2010]

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