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LONDON — Britain has banned the export of a hand-held bomb-detection device to Iraq and Afghanistan, months after the U.S. military warned that the product is ineffective and fraudulent.
The ADE651 device made by the British company ATSC is used at security checkpoints across Baghdad, and its makers claim it can detect explosives at a distance.
But Britain’s Department for Business Innovation and Skills halted the export of the ADE651 after a BBC-TV “Newsnight” investigation Friday challenged its effectiveness. The broadcaster took the key aspects of the device to a laboratory, which concluded that a component intended to detect explosives contained technology used to prevent thefts in stores.
