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January 31, 2010

Government To Import New Devices to Detect Explosives

Sources for the "morning": 80 percent of sonar devices distributed in the controls, effective

BAGHDAD - morning

The government intends to import sophisticated equipment to detect explosives from the origins of new and diverse, in a move designed to prevent future security breaches.

While it is hoped to be announced during the next two weeks the results of the investigation on the validity of devices currently in place,

Sources especially the "morning" that the U.S. military conducted a test of Sunarat distributed to checkpoints proved limitations about 70 percent, as shown in the tests conducted by the security agencies, including the effectiveness of 80 percent.

MP Ali al-Adeeb: "Iraq wants to diversify sources of military weapons and equipment of various kinds and not confined to any one country to another according to the advantages of the weapon and the comparison prices. The writer of the" morning "will be relying on" certain controls to import explosives detectors by the authorities concerned through the involvement of foreign experts in the testing equipment as well as local experts, because the multiplicity and diversity of sources and the search for the source the best and most efficient services would reach the goal of safeguarding the lives and property of citizens and the state. "

He stressed that "the government will take strict measures if they feel there is corruption in contract-making, which included import explosives detectors currently in place," noting that "the commissions, which imported the devices comprising representatives from the Ministry of the Interior and other ministries have been brought in after the experts agreed on this devices after testing, but the efficiency of these devices proved to be a relative.

"It should be noted that the British government decided earlier ban on the export of explosives detection devices which are manufactured by" any TCS "to Iraq, after it proved ineffective, noting that these devices failed to prevent car bombings that have killed hundreds of civilians in Baghdad, prompting the Iraqi government to open a prompt on this information.

For his part, said a member of the security and defense committee in the House of Representatives Abbas al-Bayati said the committee formed by the Government in cooperation with the Ministry of Interior will complete its work during the next two weeks will provide a detailed report about the effectiveness of explosives detection devices or not.

Bayati noted that "about 80 percent of the detectors have proven effectiveness, especially those deployed in sensitive areas and residential after undergoing rigorous examination and laboratory practice through random sampling, "afterthought said:" The problem lies in a limited amount of explosives detection devices. "said a member of the security committee that Iraq firmly on the import of new equipment to detect explosives linked to the results of the investigation into the effectiveness of the devices currently in use, the Commission completed its work until the problem can be determined the possibility of purchasing new computers.

For his part, MP Hassan Senaid, a parliamentary security committee near the declaration of the results the commission of inquiry to ascertain the validity of the detectors for explosives. Sunaid and in a press statement that " the specimens were collected lots of different detectors for explosives (sonar) to hold a series of experiments to ascertain the validity of whether or not "ruled out the frequency of such devices to stop working at the moment, but he acknowledged that" some models of these devices are inaccurate and ineffective " .

In the meantime, sources especially for the "morning" that the U.S. military in Iraq conducted a test of the equipment currently in use.

The sources said that the test results for the U.S. military for such devices has proved the limitations of this equipment by 70 percent. The U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Christopher Hill, had confirmed the "morning" yesterday on the willingness of his country's forces to equip the Iraqi forces with modern devices to detect explosives after the scandal of poor explosives detectors , "The U.S. forces were working with their Iraqi counterparts to prevent violations, and supported by sophisticated equipment and devices, but he declined to talk about explosives detectors poor, saying:" This is looking only between security officials, "but he praised the security measures taken by the the government recently.

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