Why Is Iraq Still Using Fake Bomb Detectors?

‘Following Sunday’s bombing in Baghdad—which the Iraqi government now says killed 250 people, making it ISIS’s deadliest-ever bombing against civilians—The Washington Post reported that the website of Iraq’s Ministry of Interior had been hacked. “A picture of a bloodied baby was posted along with a bomb detector bearing the Islamic State’s markings,” wrote Mustafa Salim and Loveday Morris. “‘I don’t know how you sleep at night,’ the hacked site read. ‘Your conscience is dead.’”
It was an anguished protest, as Salim and Morris detailed, against a security service that failed to protect Iraqis against the ISIS attack on Sunday and countless others like it. Emblematic of that failure is the fact that bomb detectors still in widespread use in Iraq are fake—and were shown to be fake by a BBC investigation six years ago.’
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