UK halts 'bomb detector' exports

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by Al Jazeera English

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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 23, 2010)