Alwaght- Iraqi Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi, ordered to withdraw fake British bomb detector from security checkpoints after a suicide car bombing killed at least 131 people in the city.
The mal-function detectors which were sold to Iraq and other countries some years ago by a British businessman, McCormick, are considered a major factor in breaches to Iraq’s security.
The British businessman was sentenced in 2013 in Britain to 10 years in jail for endangering lives for profit.
McCormick earned more than $40 million from sales in Iraq alone, British police said at the time. His customers also included the United Nations.
Abadi's orders on Sunday highlight one of the longest-running and most grievous flaws in Baghdad security.
The premier ordered all security forces to stop using the hand-held devices, which are made of black plastic with a pistol-style grip and a small silver antenna that allegedly detects various materials including explosives.
In reality, they do not detect anything, except by chance.
Abadi also directed that the interior ministry speed up the deployment of the "Rapiscan device for searching vehicles" at all entrances to Baghdad - an apparent reference to truck-based scanners from Rapiscan Systems.
Two separate blasts rocked the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad, which were claimed by the ISIS terrorists, took lives of at least 213 people and injured many more.
The first explosion, a refrigerator truck packed with explosives, went off in Baghdad’s shopping area of Karada district and the second blast blew up shortly afterwards in Sha'ab district, which is located in the northern part of the city.
