FOR THE RECORD _ We Don't Talk Anymore

IN MEMORY OF ALL THOSE WHO HAVE DIED, LOST LIMBS, LOST FAMILY, LOST HOPE, AND BEEN DEVASTATED BY FAKE EXPLOSIVES DETECTORS,

AND TO ALL THOSE WHO DAILY STRIVE AN DIE TRYING TO DETECT AN DEFUSE EXPLOSIVES FOR REAL, 

I DEDICATE THIS SONG TO THE FOLLOWING IDIOTS WHO HAVE SOLD FRAUDULENT DETECTORS, OR HAVE DONE LITTLE OR NOTHING TO STOP THE SALE OR USE OF THESE USELESS DEVICES. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED OVER AND OVER AGAIN!!!!

I have to say I would not normally go for the popular music artist known as Cliff Richard, but as so often it is possible to have a laugh at the coincidence of songs and real life. Here is the song dedicated to the following:

The Government of the United Kingdom and Great (sometimes, but no thanks to the lying politicians) Britain.

Also dedicated to:

The Crown Prosecution Service,
The Avon and Somerset Police,
Colin Port, Chief Constable of the Avon and Somerset Police
City of London Police,
The Ministry of Defence,
The Foreign Office,
The Royal Engineers (only those directly involved with MOLE and GT200 and who said nothing or were fooled by a dowsing rod!)
James McCormick , ATSC (MOLE and ADE651),
Gary Bolton, GLOBAL TECHNICAL (MOLE and GT200),

By the way, we've never heard from any lawyers!!!!

David Vollmar (SNIFFEX/HEDD1), Frank Trier (See David Vollmar) of Unival in Germany
General Pierre hadji Goergiou, PROSEC in Lebanon.
Stelian Ilie and his Romanian gangsters at MiraTelecom
Yuri Markov, So called inventor of SNIFFEX and HEDD1
Sam Tree, Quadro Tracker, and Importer of the MOLE from the U.S to the U.K. See Gary Bolton
Malcolm Roe, See Quadro Tarcker, Sam Tree, Gary Bolton. Importer of MOLE from U.S to U.K.
Sinon Sherrard, see Sam Tree. COMSTRAC and the ALPHA6 and PSD-2
Major General al Jabiri, corrupt ex-head of the Iraqi Bomb Squad (Where are they now?!)
Major General Alan Sharman, ex R.E.M.E, ex- Head U.K. Defence Procurement, ex-head Defence Manufacturers Association. See Gary Bolton and the MOLE and GT200
Brinley Salzman, Head of Exports at the ADS (previously Defence Manufacturers Association). See Major General Alan Sharman, Gary Bolton and the MOLE and GT200
Horizon Group, India. See GT200, SNIFFEX and HEDD1
The DKL LIfeguard people
The AL-6D people at Diodebell
Chuck Christensen and the magically useless H3-TEC or ALIEN as he now calls his garbage
The United States Military, State Department, Department of Defence, F.B.I. U.S. Navy, etc
with reference to Quadro Tracker, MOLE, SNIFFEX, ADE651 in Iraq, GT200 in Mexico et al
Bob Stewart, M.P.
Patrick Mercer, M.P.
David Heath M.P.
David Laws M.P.
and other Members of the Great (sometimes but no thanks to them) British Parliament
The Mexican Government and Military and Police
The Thai Government and Military and Police
Colonel John Wyatt, retd. SDS Ltd. See SNIFFEX and HEDD1

SHALL I GO ON? There's lots more I promise you!

 OR DO YOU SEE HOW BIG THIS STORY IS AND HOW LITTLE HAS BEEN DONE!

Right, here's that Cliff Richard song (thanks Cliff. We're all going on a summer holiday!)

Hope you all like the sarcasm and satire, a Great British Tradition!! Perhaps a touch or irony.

Used to think that life was sweet.
Used to think we were complete.
I can't believe you'd throw it away.

Used to feel we had it made.
Used to feel we'd sail away.
Just Imagine how I feel today.
Well it seems a long time ago you were the lonely one.
Now it comes to letting go you are the only one.
Do you know what you've done.

It's so funny how we don't talk anymore.
It's so funny why we don't talk anymore.
But I ain't losing sleep and I ain't counting sheep.
it's so funny how we don't talk anymore.

Well it really doesn't matter to me.
I guess you're leaving was meant to be.
It's down to you now you wanna be free.
Well I hope you know which way to go you're on your own again.
And don't come crying to me when you're the lonely one.
Remember what you've done.

It's so funny how we don't talk anymore.
It's so funny why we don't talk anymore
But I ain't losing sleep and I ain't counting sheep.
It's so funny how we don't talk anymore.

But I ain't losing sleep and I ain't counting sheep.
It's so funny how we don't talk.

But I ain't losing sleep and I ain't counting sheep.
It's so funny how we don't talk.

Thanks as always too:
The James Randi Educational Foundation at randi.org
Techowiz at http://explosivedetectorfrauds.blogspot.co.uk/
Lumpy Low at http://sniffexquestions.blogspot.co.uk/
Bob Couttie at Maritime Accident Casebook

And many others who have diligently spread the word on this disgusting killer fraud.

Estimates: Over $250 Million Dollars worth sold worldwide
                  Many hundreds if not thousands of lives lost
                  Many hundreds if not thousands injured
                  Millions in bribery and corruption in the selling and buying

ANYONE TALKING ANYMORE? 
                  

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO COCAINE CARLY

 A brief post to wish Carly Wickens, girlfriend of Gary Bolton, a very happy................

NO> Sorry I can't wish her a happy birthday. Why? Because she and Gary are off to the Maldives, presumably for a birthday trip for Carly.

So, we don't really have to wish her a happy birthday because she is already living the high life, with a low life.

We would like to know why a major fraudster is allowed to swan off on glamorous holidays? We would like to know why he has still to be arrested? Of course, selling tens of millions of dollars of fake explosives and drugs detectors, with the help of the British Government, and then the lack of action by the British Government, is not important is it?

Well, ask Shoun Huckabee, an American citizen, who was arrested and tortured in Mexico, on false claims of possession of drugs, basd on a false indication from the fraudulent GT200.

Or perhaps the families of those blown up in Thailand, while relying on the GT200?

Don't ask me. Ask them! WHY?

A DETECTOR THAT ACTUALLY WORKS

NEWSFLASH!

Breaking news (although it should not be because this detector has been around for a while now!).

JREF announces launch of the RANDI (Remote And Near Detection Indicator).

Compared with other detectors such as the ADE651, GT200, ALPHA 6, H3TEC, HEDD1, SNIFFEX etc, which claim they can detect almost anything, but actually work no better than random chance because they are a pile of poo, and the people who sell them are immoral bastards, the RANDI has an incredibly high identification/exposure rate.

The RANDI can detect almost any of the following foul substances, through application of grey matter alone:

Charlatans of many a hue and cry.
So called, self appointed psychics.
Purveyors of nonsense products.
Pedlars of pharmacological piffle.
Psychopath psychic surgeons.
Sellers of scam religions (all of them?)
Completely crappy conspiracy theories and theorists.
Mythical monsters and mammals.

ET Al (no, not Green! That's one of my random musical references).

All you have to do is point the RANDI at a dodgy looking target, and it locks on within moments usually. Sometimes you may have to be patient while it computes the methodology of the con, fraud or trickery, but rest assured, it very rarely fails.

If the target appears to be spewing out large and potentially dangerous spurts of bullshit, the RANDI automatically attempts to shut off the flow, using logic and rational bombs (completely un-detectable by the targets, especially those named above, which could not detect anything except the corruptible and gullible, Sadly we are unable to control the almost inexhasutible supply of these marks or consumers of the scams. They say there's one born every minute. I reckon it's more like one every second, but that does mean the market is still vast for the RANDI).

Regrettably the RANDI does not carry enough armament to stem the flow of BS from every quarter, but  it is highly reliable, and sticks to its tasks like a limpet mine (also un-detectable by those other devices!).

The RANDI is a proven performer in many theatres of operation e.g. John of God.

It has been tested in extreme environments where blizzards of BS can be present.

The RANDI has performed under fire from the various targets it is programmed to detect. Vast amounts of insult, innuendo, diversionary, ad hominem, strawmen, fake evidence, and other forms of non-argument ammunition has been aimed at the RANDI. It still looks remarkably good for its age.

While the original RANDI has been around a while now, we have failed to find a more reliable design.

If the target remains operational, the RANDI deploys its MDC Inter Galactic Ballistic Missile, which carries a deliverable payload of 1 Million Megaton Dollars. Otherwise known as the JREF Million Dollar Challenge. The MDC hangs above the heads of targets and repeatedly drops charges on the targets. Every time they refuse to give in, and accept the MDC is more powerful than they are, they look more and more battered and bruised.

We are working on a new version of the RANDI. The upgrade will include flashing lights, and a nuclear quadrupole resonance missile. This upgraded arms capability will enable even more kills of the targets.

So, the RANDI not only detects, but is programmed to destroy the sources of baloney and BS, wherever it tries to hide.

Some prime examples of where the RANDI has locked on and not let go:

Peter Popoff
Sylvia Browne
John Edward
Quadro Tracker and all the subsequent variant of the detector fraud as above.
Scientology
Homeopathy
Alien abductions (have you seen how many Americans claim they have been abducted! Maybe that explains a lot!! Ho Ho. Just kidding!)
Big Foot/Yeti/Sasquatch
9/11 'truthers' (yeah folks! Actually didn't you know that Muffin the Mule was behind that one you idiots!)

ETC ETC ETC

We appreciate that many of these Weapons of Mass Delusion (W.M.D.) have still not been destroyed, but many have been badly wounded, and restricted in operational range by the deployment of the RANDI.

We regret that some technologies enable some of the targets to repair themselves following deployment of the RANDI e.g. The Popoff With Your Money (PWYM). However, yet again we can promise that once deployed, the RANDI never gives up. It is the most tenacious technology we have yet seen.

So, to test the RANDI yourself, under double blind conditions, and at any reputable academic institution, please contact the JREF at

RANDI.ORG

(No you silly people, RANDI, not RANDY! It's not a naughty site!!, but it can be very offensive to fraudsters thankfully!)

CLINTON ROGERS REPORTS

Clinton is a journalist, and a fine fellow (and now an Honorary Campaign Superhero!), with a long history of working in and around Somerset. He got the first interview with James McCormick of ATSC and ADE651 infamy back in 2009 (The first BBC Newsnight report in January 2010 was based on that interview). The one where McCormick claims that his fraudulent ADE651 detector works akin to dowsing, and is proven to work. Both statements being lies. First, dowsing does not work for anything, and second, the ADE651 has only ever been proved to be useless, except where bribes overcame this minor detail.

Here Clinton does a follow up to his original report. He poses the question the Fake Explosives Detectors Campaign has been asking for a long time i.e. why has McCormick still not been charged after such a long investigation? Of course, we also want to know why Gary Bolton, the GT200 fraudster, has not even been arrested yet.

Clinton sums up the story so far very well, and even gets the recently media shy Chief Constable Colin Port to comment. Port claims that it has been a complex investigation involving 23 countries. His answers leave a lot of questions unanswered. Like why did the Avon and Somerset Police re-bail McCormick again in December 2011 , for the eighth or ninth time, but this time only for one Month to January 2012. Previously they had interviewed him and re-bailed him on a number of occasions for 3 Months each time. So, with such a short re-bail, we imagined they were almost ready to charge McCormick. In fact, we had strong hints this was the case. But no. They then re-bail him for six Months???? All most odd.

Also, why are they trying to prosecute him for so many different countries. They could easily build a case on Iraq and say Niger alone, and just put on record the rest of his frauds, couldn't they. And anyway, we have no idea how they have come up with 23 countries. Our knowledge is that this is an inflated number, but who are we to say? After all, we only told the Police almost all they needed to know a long time ago!!

So, over to the report by Clinton, originally broadcast on BBC Points West on 18 January 2012.

All credit to Clinton and his colleagues at BBC Somerset for helping to keep this story going!!!

Techo will shortly add his comments. Specifically, he has rightly been worried that the length of time it has taken to charge McCormick and Bolton risks them getting off on a technicality, as Clinton highlights in his report.

BBC POINTS WEST ADE651 REPORT - CLINTON ROGERS HERE

THE AMAZING RANDI

Anyone who has followed the Fake Explosives Detectors Campaign (FEDC) will know that I was inspired by James Randi of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF)

Back in 2008 Randi issued his Million Dollar Challenge (MDC) to the ADE651. It was the fact that the ADE651 was being sold by a British company that got my goat (Damn, I loved that goat! Not carnally I hasten to add! Just joking. Got my goat means it made me mightily angry),

Anyway, it was the Randi MDC that motivated me to start to investigate further, and subsequently to encounter my great friend and great man Techowiz. Anyone who wants to know more can go back to the beginning of this blog and follow the story, or see the book of the blog at the link below (the book is easier to follow because it starts at the very beginning).

Here we link to a recent interview with The Amazing Randi at the Magic Castle. The interviewer is the marvellous mentalist, Max Maven.

It's well worth listening to the whole interview because Randi is truly a great skeptic. Despite his advancing age and recent illness, he is a deep well of great stories and wisdom.

However, for those of you with not much time, fast forward to 40 minutes in when Randi discusses the MDC with Max, and explains a little of how it works. He also mentions the Quadro Tracker and the ADE651 (actually he calls it the ADE561 but I think we'll forgive him for getting two digits the wrong way around!).

Well, we are now over three years into the campaign, and of course, none of the main criminals involved in the trade in fancy dress dowsing rods have been charged with any crime. Since Randi has been publicising this scam since 1995, isn't it AMAZING that little or nothing has been done to end this disgusting fraud? If you agree, please spread the word.

N.B. Randi can be very generous to deluded people who believe in all sorts of BS, despite the fact that he endeavours to expose frauds, scams, psychics (e.g. Sylvia Browne and John Edward) etc etc. We just want to make it clear that none of the Fake Explosives Detectors have ever been put forward for the MDC despite numerous challenges from Randi down the years, and despite some of our 'favourite'  fraudsters saying they would or might take the challenge, or indeed get proper testing carried out. WHY NOT? Because of course they know they are selling a fraud!


THE AMAZING RANDI INTERVIEW

THE BOOK OF THIS BLOG

James Randi Educational Foundation    

ARE WE IMPRESSED?

Today we will focus again on the way that Gary Bolton (Global Technical Ltd and the GT200 fraud detector) managed to worm his way into the heart of the British Defence Establishment and Government.

As an avid follower of this blog no doubt you already know how the Defence Manufacturers Association (DMA) welcomed Gary to its bosom (the tits!). Of course, the DMA is now called the ADS.

You will also be familiar with the fact that both Brinley Salzmann (pictured and now Export Director of the ADS) and Major General Alan Sharman (retd), ex-Director of the DMA took Gary Bolton with them to Parliament to moan about the lack of support for exports of his fraudulent device.

You will recall how Salzmann and Sharman have lied about that meeting i.e. that the GT200 was not raised at the Parliamentary Committee. It is now a matter of record that they have tried to squirm out of any responsibility for helping Bolton sell his death trap fake detector around the World.

Well, we have been investigating this further. Brinley Salzmann, what an unimpressive insignificant little toe rag he really is. We think that the British Defence Industry needs someone a tad more impressive to represent it around the World. Not some petty little bureaucrat/apparatchik. Maybe an ex-Military man or woman who would have some credibility with Military and Government buyers around the World, and certainly not a little shit like Brinley, who helped Bolton sell his shite, and now does and says nothing about it. Except of course to lie and cover up his stupidity and that of his old boss Sharman (plus others involved in this scandal).

Take a look at the link below. An interview with Salzmann. Does he impress you with his lip licking, lickspittle performance. If you were a serious military man looking at buying British, would you be impressed by this pathetic little creature?

We hope not!

So Brinley, time to become a man and condemn your own stupidity, and that of others like Sharman. Doesn't seem likely he will get some cojones now, but one can always hope. Maybe he will have a twinge of conscience about his lies, and his assistance to Bolton. Wake up and realise that real men admit their mistakes, and take the consequences. We have given you a chance before. Here's another chance to make good. Just think about all those bloody dead bodies you helped create. Just think of all those destroyed families, limbs and lives and suffering that you (yes, YOU BRINLEY THE BERK) are responsible for.

Just think of the corrupt waste of money that you and your mates like Sharman have a direct responsibility for.

Well, Brinley, time to clear off or come clean!! You worthless little man!

That super unimpressive interview with Brinley The Berk here.

And we still wonder why Bolton has not even been arrested yet?

MURDER INCORPORATED! JABIRI STYLE.

Did anyone else know this? It certainly took us a while to find out, despite our detecting skills (which are really quite good when compared to those of the wholly ineffective fake explosives detectors, and the 'finest police in the World' - Santa Claus says Ho Ho!!. Aided, we should add, by that top secret detection device known to those with top security clearance as Google).

What have we just discovered?

Remember Major General (another Major General. just like our own favourite Alan Sharman retired), Jihad al Jabiri, Head of the Iraqi Bomb Squad, who signed off orders for $85 million dollars of the fraud ADE651 detector, via General Pierre Hadji Georgiou of Prosec in Lebanon, and ultimately from that chief fraudster, James McCormick of ATSC. Remember, these fake detectors cost many hundreds if not thousands of lives in Bagdhad and elsewhere in Iraq, as well as untold suffering, and property damage.

Well, we were of course delighted when Major General al Jabiri was arrested earlier this year, following the last BBC Newsnight investigation. News was that Jabiri was arrested on charges of corruption. And that the Interior Ministry in Iraq was ordered to pay back $20 Million USD to the Iraqi Treasury as punishment for the corrupt ADE651 purchases.

A little bird told us that the US State Department had ordered the Iraqis to act because they had known for some time that the ADE651 and similar devices, were fakes, and were mad at the Iraqis for buying them, and putting US lives at risk.

By now we thought that Jabiri would be rotting in a tasteful Baghdad jail. Or strung up like he deserves! What a perfectly apt end for a man who claimed he knew more about bombs and explosives than anyone else in the World. A man who claimed that he did not care what Sandia Labs said. A man who said that using dogs (which can actually detect explosives) would turn Baghdad into a zoo!! The man who said that he did not care if the ADE651 worked by magic or science. He knew it worked! Well, of course he would say that wouldn't he!

He had the millions of dollars that he and his colleagues had shared in bribes to protect. Sadly it seems he did not have the protection of his own people at heart!

Well, yet again, we here at the Fake Explosives Detectors Campaign were mightily mad that the 'good' General Jabiri was quietly released from all charges back in May. HOW YOU ASK?

Well, it seems that in 2010 the Iraqi Parliament tried to repeal a law (136b), which explicitly allowed Ministers to unilaterally let off Iraqi public officials for corruption, regardless of the evidence. Apparently they failed to get rid of this licence for corruption, with one or two decent Iraqi politicians complaining bitterly that their efforts to stop corruption were being thwarted (when you check out the links below maybe you will understand why none of the top dogs in Iraq want effective anti-corruption measures in place!)

Well, back in May, the Interior Minister invoked 136b in the case of Jabiri and others involved in the ADE651 scandal. Why would he do that we wonder? To protect his own share of the corrupt loot? You might think so. We couldn't possibly comment! Ho Ho! Of course we can comment. The Iraqi Interior Ministry, and all the others, are riddled with corruption, right to the top!

Apparently, just when Jabiri was apparently being let off scot free, some members of the Parliament were again trying to repeal 136b.

We think Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should be told!

So, just another example of where almost everyone in this disgusting story seems to get away without any action by the authorities, whether here in the UK, Iraq, Germany, where Vollmar and Trier peddle their HEDD1 (formerly SNIFFEX), or in the US itself, where Chuck Christensen still merrily promotes his H3Tec fraud, or In Thailand and Mexico (and many other countries in the World that have corruptly purchased various versions of the same swivelling detectors fraud.

We continue to ask how the hell people who sold and bought this obvious killer fraud are not brought to justice?

We will not stop until they are! Understand that fraudsters and the corrupt. We do not go away until you have paid for the lives you have wasted. Whether innocent civilians, or brave soldiers and police who do the real job on the ground, and earn a pittance compared to you fat bloody cats/pigs!

P.S. Apologies. It seems that 136(b) was actually repealed in April, so we assume that Jabiri was let off just before that happened. If you have any information on this please feel free to let us know.

Some links for your pleasure:

 http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/search?q=136b

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2011/1039/re8.htm

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/113747/20110217/iraq-police-official-charged-in-bomb-device-scandal.htm

http://www.aknews.com/en/aknews/4/225247

THE HOPPING MAD FROG

A message to all the fraudsters and those doing nowt about it!

The Fake Explosives Detectors Campaign has been joined by a new recruit.

He is a freelance amphibian of some note in the murky ponds of Britain.

Put your webbed hands together and give a big cold blooded welcome to:

HOPPY, THE HOPPING MAD FROG.

Move over Crackers, The corporate crime fighting chicken! Here comes Hoppy, and he's gonna hop till you lot of fraudsters stop. He has the tenacity of a toad, and the thighs of a weightlifter!

HOP HOP HOP HOP HOP

Coming to a place near you soon!. Ribbit, Ribbit!

WARNING. HOPPY IS POISONOUS SO YOU CAN'T EAT HIS LEGS!

THE OFFERS - BOGOF

OR Buy One Get One Free.

Right. We thought that maybe Brinley Salzmann of ADS, Major General Alan Sharman (retd.) and others in the UK Defence establishment might like to say sorry for helping Gary Bolton sell his MOLE and GT200 Fake Detectors around the World, and thus contributing to the death and destruction and havoc that these scam devices cause wherever they are used.

We said we would not publish Brinleys useless defence of his useless position, and that of his ex-boss Sharman, if the ADS released the following statement:

'ADS, its employees and members, deeply regret the past association of the Defence Manufacturers Association (forerunner of ADS) and its past employees and members, with Gary Bolton of Global Technical Ltd, and his fraudulent detectors, the MOLE and the GT200.

ADS deeply regrets the past involvement of the British Government and the Royal Engineers in helping to promote these fraudulent detectors.

ADS condemns all varieties of the detector fraud, including the ADE651, sold by James McCormick of ATSC (ex-partner of Gary Bolton), and the HEDD1 (formerly SNIFFEX) marketed by Unival in Germany and their UK agent, Colonel John Wyatt, SDS,  as useless and dangerous.

ADS calls on the British Government to impose an immediate Worldwide ban on the export of these fraudulent devices, and to make further strenuous efforts to urge Mexico, Thailand and the rest of the World never to use these types of devices ever again.

ADS calls on the U.K. Police and Prosecution authorities to expedite charges against Gary Bolton, James McCormick and their associates for murderous fraud, as well as anyone here in the UK also involved e.g. John Wyatt.

ADS calls on the British Government to make every effort to recover as much of the blood money associated with this disgusting trade.

ADS deeply regrets British involvement in the promotion and export of these disgusting frauds, and the subsequent substantial loss of lives, limbs and liberty.

ADS now vets potential members far more thoroughly than when Gary Bolton and Global Technical managed to gain membership of the predecessor Defence Manufacturers Association.

ADS and Major General Alan Sharman (retd.) deeply regret all past associations with Gary Bolton.'

Did they? Of course they did not! Not big enough to admit their deadly mistakes!

So, you can of course now see the letter Brinley didn''t want you to see below (see post below ADS STANDS FOR?), along with our detailed analysis of what he was really saying, and was not saying. Especially his lie that Bolton never mentioned his dodgy device when he went to Parliament with his big wig Defence Manufacturers Association friends.

Now your bonus offer, to all the fraudsters direct. Very simple boys and girls! Either test properly, or confess! Why? Because we will never give up!! We have offered you these choices many times, but you all fiddle on while people get blown up. NICE!

FINDE ICH SCHON

Wenn der Hund bellt und ist bissig,
und ich bin verzagt,
Ganz einfach sofort wird mein Kummer vergeh'n
Ich denke an das was schön

Why the German? Back to Bonn again to meet our pals, David Vollmar and Frank Trier at Unival. The sellers of the HEDD1 (Hasn't Even Detected DooDoo Once!).

We have had a Financial Times Germany article translated, and it tells me some of my favourite things. Like what idiots Vollmar and Trier, and anyone who falls for the HEDD1 are. Like how they never produce legitimate evidence. Like the fact that they are really getting upset with us.

Translation from Financial Times Deutschland (FTD) article on Unival and the HEDD1.

Date of publication: March 19th 2010.

New bomb detector “Wünschel Dir was”.

A little black apparatus with a tuning antenna on top could make the body-scanner controversy in Germany come to an end: The HEDD1 is supposed to locate explosives from as far as 100 meters away, even through walls. If only there weren´t so many doubters. Serge Debrebant (author), Bonn, Nora Schlüter (assistance)

It is an unpleasant winter's day, cold and damp, and the underground car park in Bonn where I  find myself is not exactly welcoming. But I am accepting the circumstances because I am about to become witness of a security-technology revolution: The Unival company is demonstrating its bomb detector to me, a hand held device with the somewhat impersonal name "HEDD1". Upon closer inspection, the 276 gr machinery looks like a black bicycle grip with some sort of antenna attached to it, which in turn will rotate towards the direction where the bomb is.

If you believe the manufacturer, this device is more effective than any comparable bomb detectors on the market. As a genuine all-rounder, it may detect TNT, dynamite, liquid, plastic, and many other explosives from a distance of up to 100m. Even concrete walls are no obstacle. "There is no other technology that is able to discover explosives from such a distance” says David Vollmar. He is the founder and owner of Unival Group, a small, young company for security technology in Bonn. "The detection rate of HEDD1 is over 80 percent."


Unival coach (Head of Training) Frank Trier demonstrates the application of HEDD1

But you have to know that Vollmar does not refer to scientific tests, but rather to more than 100 presentations that were organized by Unival. If the 80 percent detection rate were really true, the HEDD1 could solve many security problems in one swoop. Self-made roadside bombs in Afghanistan? No problem. De-mining? Ditto. With HEDD1 the Detroit aeroplane bomber would never have slipped through the checks. If it was up to Vollmar, the world would not discuss the use of body scanners at airports, but the HEDD1.

Why does it not? Because many experts doubt that bomb detectors like HEDD1 are anything more but a self-deception of the user. In recent years, a whole group of models appearing very like dowsing/divining rods came on the market, to detect explosives through the antenna swinging. The best example is ATSC, a British company that has delivered a device called the ADE651 to Iraq. Among other things - the government in Baghdad bought more than 1,500 pieces at a price of up to 45,000 pounds.

In January, the company owner was arrested on suspicion of fraud. Inside the detector only simple RFID tags were found, as used, for example, in shops to prevent theft. According to scientists from the University of Cambridge it is impossible for these tags to discover anything at all. Nobody knows how many people lost their lives at checkpoints, because the security forces relied on the ADE651.

Unival do not want to be associated with such charlatanism. Now I want to convince myself of how the HEDD1 functions properly. For this reason I hide two small explosive charges in the underground car park: a rifle cartridge and a pack with New Year's Eve firecrackers. Vollmar and Frank Trier, who is responsible for customer training at Unival, wait outside. They are convinced of the potential of their product: "In the next one to two years, we will have sold up to 3,000 units," says Vollmar. The cost of around 8000 € for an apparatus is almost a bargain: A body scanner is at least $ 150,000.

The predecessor of HEDD1 was sold some 2000 times to 40 countries around the world, including to the Turkish army, the Iraq interior and defence ministries and the Italian border patrol - but also to the German Wisag, a service provider with approximately 20,000 employees. For a discussion of the detector there was no one available (at WISAG) on request.

Behind the invention of HEDD1 is a tinkerer named Yuri Markov, a Bulgarian. For more than 15 years, the former telecommunications engineer has worked on the development of the system that was first marketed in the U.S. under the name "Sniffex" - and that the German company Unival now exclusively distributes as HEDD1. Markov will not reveal what technology exactly is behind it,  For example, he does not say what is inside that metal container that is at the heart of the detector. Trade secret.

What he reveals is: The HEDD1 creates a "modulated magnetic field" if the magnets above and below the metal container set the substance in vibration. Additionally, a magnetic field is created around the explosive substance. In the event of magnetic fields overlapping, the antenna turns towards the direction of the bomb. The human body thereby acts as some sort of amplifier.

One of Markov's harshest critics is the professional skeptic James Randi, a former magician and escape artist, who has made it his mission to expose charlatans and pseudo-scientists. Sniffex he calls "a fake, a fraud, a hoax." Unconscious self-deception of the user, are responsible for the movements of the device is a similar way to a seance glass moving. The U.S. Navy has proved him right.  They tested the Sniffex after the bombings in London, the report appeared in 2008 on the research portal ProPublica. In one test scenario, two trucks laden with 500 kilos of explosives directly drove past the Sniffex. Reaction? None. The result of the investigation: "The Sniffex hand held detector is not able to detect explosives."

For Vollmar, however, the test does not speak against Sniffex but rather against the Navy "The previous (Sniffex) devices were difficult to handle. The Navy has operated the equipment incorrectly. Under these conditions, the test does not succeed." In one photograph, published with the report, a man holds a bomb detector in front of him like a revolver. Completely wrong, to do it that way. How to do it right? Trier shows me during the search of the car park: Pull out the antenna, smoothly and direct it downwards. Then he presses the device against the side of the chest and positions it forward. Like this, Trier walks in circles several times, to explore the terrain.

What does the scientific community say about this? "I'm not an expert on magic wands or April Fools', grumbles a researcher who does not want to be named, but who himself has once worked on developing a bomb detector. Even for Franz Fujara, professor of Physics at the TU (Technical University) Darmstadt the whole thing appears "a bit obscure". "Scientific terms are indeed being used, but together they make no sense," says the physicist. The patent application of HEDD1 was "either very foolish or an insolence." The other four scientists with whom I speak are also more than skeptical. "We do not believe that one can detect such small magnetic fields at such distances," emailed me Hannes Toepfer, a professor of physics at the TU (Technical University) of Ilmenau. But Mr. Trier and Mr. Vollmar have now got the opportunity to convince me of the opposite.

The antenna reacts for the first time and points very clearly towards a Mercedes. "Before we now crawl on the floor – will you not want to clarify this," asks Vollmar. But they can crawl endlessly: There is nothing hidden (in the Mercedes). Unless the driver maybe has firecrackers in the trunk. Now Vollmar also grabs himself a HEDD1 and joins the search. This time, the antenna points at a car that is covered with a blue tarp. It's a bit like Hit the Pot (children´s game): warm but not hot. The package with the firecrackers is under the car next to it. The next indication again is a blank. Vollmar picks up a traffic cone and looks behind a fire extinguisher. Nothing.

Perhaps it is smarter to rely on conventional detectors instead of modulated magnetic fields, even if they do not guarantee complete security. At airports, for example, metal detectors and X-ray machines are being used. So-called egis devices analyze traces of compound gases that are often used with explosives. All these techniques have drawbacks, however: they are too slow, too prone to error, difficult to operate or they can only detect specific explosives. That is why intensive research on new technologies is done.

In the parking garage Vollmar is screwing up his last chance. Although the antenna is pointing in the right direction - the last remaining corner of the parking garage - but when Trier walks down the line of cars, the antenna, again, does not point at the right car. "That surprises me," mutters Trier. Vollmar explains: "We do not exactly know where to find the material we can only roughly tell and if you find something, you have to lock down the premises and call the bomb squad..."

So far, hardly any Western agency acquired a HEDD1 or its predecessor. But Vollmar hopes that this will soon change. A German security agency is supposedly considering a purchase. Which one it is, he does not want to reveal. The press offices of BKA (Federal Criminal Department) and BND (Federal Intelligence Agency) refuse to comment, and the Federal Office for Defense Technology procurement denies any interest.

Vollmar and Markov intend to further invest into the technology in the coming years. A prototype for antibiotics has already been developed, says Markov. Detectors for chemical, biological and nuclear warfare agents are being planned. A silver bullet that is. Only the U.S. Department of Justice again makes everything look bad. Ten years ago it issued a warning: "Be wary of devices that use a pivoting rod, which is held almost horizontally, and which points at the sought material."

No scientific test has ever confirmed the functioning of such devices. The description perfectly fits the HEDD1 – even though, at the time, it did not exist.

THEY CAN'T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME!

As reported by Techo, seems someone got upset about my blog. Oh dear! I am so sorry! (Not!)

Techo called me last Thursday morning to tell me that my blog had disappeared. He was worried. I was very happy! As I told him, what we are doing is working, and if someone wants to shut us up, then we must be making progress, and getting closer to the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Anyway, about 9 A.M. I tried to log in to the blog to be greeted by a message that said the blog had been removed and that the URL was no longer available, and to check Google Terms and Conditions of service to see why this might have happened,

Techo and I were just discussing our response to this pathetic attempt at censorship, when, about 11 A.M. I tried one more time to see if the blog was still removed. Surprise! It was back.

Now this is pure speculation, but we imagine that either David Vollmar at Unival (HEDD1) or Major General Alan Sharman (retd.), or Brinley Salzmann, Export Director of ADS, or Colin Port, Chief Constable of Somerset Police, had got their knickers in a twist over recent posts (see below), and asked Carter Fuck, or some other bunch of ambulance chasing liarwers (sorry, lawyers), to write to Google complaining about how nasty we are here at the FEDC (Fake Explosives Detectors Campaign).

We guess that Google then had a proper Lawyer look at my blog, and realised that, whilst quite rude about lots of fraudsters and fraudster supporters, there was nothing wrong with our entirely fair and justifiable comments.

Well, of course, as some of you know already, I am psychic, and had predicted something like this might happen (NOT REALLY PSYCHIC! JUST KIDDING!), and published my blog as a book, and distributed it widely so that it can never be suppressed. A little warning to our fraudster friends and their supporters. If you try anything like this again, don't fear. It will all simply pop back up again, very soon!

'Good-bye-ee, good-bye-ee, wipe the tears, baby dear, from your eye-ee.
Though it's hard to part I know, I'll be tickled to death to SEE YOU go.
Don't cry-ee, don't sigh-ee, there's a silver lining in the sky-ee.
Bonsoir old thing, cheerio chin-chin, napoo, toodle-oo, good-bye- ee.'

Sorry fraudsters and killers, we are not going anywhere, and as Techo says:

"I'll be back", as many times as it takes to get you all strung up!

AN OPEN INVITATION TO MAJOR GENERAL ALAN SHARMAN (retd.)

You may remember this chap from a previous post, or if you have read the blog of the venerable Techowiz lately. If not, why not! Though I hope this is self-explanatory.

We sent this email yesterday to the various companies that Major General Sharman (retd.) holds Directorships with, in the hope that they will be good enough to pass it on. Just in case it does not reach him that way, here is that email, so that he cannot say he did not know about our cordial invitation. R.S.V.P. Let us see if he does.....

Dear Mr. Sharman,

You will no doubt be aware that we have an interest in Gary Bolton of Global Technical, for having corruptly sold the MOLE and GT200 fake detectors in places like Thailand and Mexico.

You may recall you took Gary Bolton with you on Tuesday the 9th of November 1999 before the Trade and Industry Committee at the Houses of Parliament to give evidence on, ECGD:

http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm199900/cmselect/cmtrdind/52/91109a08.htm

It would be most informative to know how much you knew about Mr Bolton and his 'miraculous' device, prior to that meeting?

Did you or anyone else at the DMA ever question how a radio aerial could detect explosives, or ask for concrete proof? If not, why not? If so, when?

We hope that now you are fully aware of the issues, you will publicly support a call for a Worldwide ban on Exports, and further efforts by the British Government to prevent the ongoing use of these dangerous and deadly devices?

Your prompt response would be appreciated!

Yours faithfully,
The Fake Explosives Detectors Campaign

For some context, this is the same Major General Alan Sharman who said:

"The fundamental weakness in global export controls is the sheer diversity of national policies, systems and procedures which exist, and which create a fertile environment for proliferators and illicit arms dealers. 

'Until this is addressed, and greater harmonisation and consistency, at least at the policy level, is achieved, then we will not be able to prevent the unscrupulous from plying their trade - and that is why we warmly welcome the proposed international Arms Trade Treaty, which could go some way towards achieving this."

http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=16995

We can think of few more worthy of being called 'unscrupulous' than Gary Bolton, or indeed James McCormick. Can you? And if not then don't you think that a man with the influence of Sharman should make a public statement denouncing his old friend Bolton at the very least?

DECONSTRUCTING HEDD1

Got bored of the pictures of David Vollmar and Frank Trier, so thought you ought to take a look at the HEDD1 (Formerly SNIFFEX, AND SNIFFEX PLUS). Do I hear sniffing? Laughing? 

Sadly, like Frank Trier, this one does not have its' radio aerial extended and at right angles to the very nicely designed hand grip.

Now, Vollmar and Trier at Unival claim it works by MED - Magneto-Electrostatic-Detection. More like MAD - Mutually Assured Destruction! Different they say from the reference card versions of the same fraud, like the ADE651 and the GT200.

DAVEY AND FRANKIE COME OUT TO PLAY - THE UNIVAL GANG!

Yes folks. Its that fine figure of a fellow, fearless Frank Trier of Unival. Sadly this time not in one of his action man uniforms, but still looking quite sexy in his smart suit and tie. OOOOHHHH Frankie, you hunk of sh!t, we have the hots for you!! The Red Hot Pokers I mean!!  (pic is a still from the Thai tests David and Frank agreed to, then, when the HEDD1 failed, made all the usual excuses!)


He's Frankie, He's Frankie,
He couldn't detect his arse from
a hole in the ground.

He's Frankly, He's Frankly
An idiot, an idiot. And a very naughty little boy, with an itsy bitsy teeny eeny, yellow bellied little weeny!

GRIMM TALES OF VOLLMAR

David 'Volldermort' Vollmar. Managing Director, Unival GmbH, Germany,. Purveyor of the HEDD1 (formerly known as SNIFFEX - see SNIFFEX SEC Fraud Case) a.k.a. The Hasn't Even Detected Doo Doo Once. The man who knows the HEDD1 doesn't work because we have been telling him for years, and like all the rest of the swivelling aerial fraudsters, pretends he has evidence he can't let anyone see, will then won't take independent testing, issues meaningless legal threats, and generally behaves like the slime ball he really is.

Frank 'Toy Soldier Rambo' Trier. Unival. David Vollmars pet toy soldier. A man who knows that the HEDD1 doesn't work because he uses it so much! Been back to Thailand recently Frankie?

And let's not forget Col. John Wyatt 'Twerp', SDS UK Limited, and Worldwide authority on Bovine Scatology a.k.a. U.K. Representative for Unival and HEDD1. Was still trying to sell HEDD1 as late as summer 2010, here in the U.K. Ever heard of the Internet Johnny boy? Same question to the brothers in blue (Colin 'Elwood' Port, and the various Jakes at CofL)?

GET THAT SINKING FEELING JIM?

Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho!

Well, Jim, looks like you're going down. What a shame. NOT!!!!

GOTCHA!

Looks like it's all blown up in your face. Funny your ADE 651 didn't detect this explosion.

You won't be missed. Unlike those poor people who got blown up because your fraudulent device didn't do what it said on the tin.

As we have said all along, you are a piece of SH1T. Now you'll be getting your just desserts. No Ice Cream with these ones though.

Now it's the turn of Gary "I'll Sue You" Bolton at Global Technical, and his equally useless gadget, the GT200. Oh, yes, and the pedlars of the PSD 2 and the Alpha 6. And our friends in Germany will be feeling your collar too Mr. Vollmar. The latter for pulling off a miracle and resurrecting the SNIFFEX.

Whaddya reckon now boys? F****d you good and proper. YEEHA!

EDIT 11 February 2012

Never realised that I had failed to include the inspiration for this piece i.e. the original BBC Newsnight report link! DOH!!

So, to correct that little error. Here is that link. RESPECT TO MEIRION JONES, CAROLINE HAWLEY, AND THE BBC NEWSNIGHT TEAM, AS WELL AS CLINTON ROGERS OF BBC SOMERSET, WHO GOT THAT FIRST INTERVIEW WITH PIGGIE JIM McCORMICK. Ho Ho Jim! DOWSING. FOR DEATH! THAT'S ALL YOUR STUPID ROD CAN ACHIEVE!!!

BBC NEWSNIGHT REPORT ON THE ADE651    22 JANUARY 2010

Of course, we would never have guessed when I originally wrote this piece just after the Newsnight report, that we would still be campaigning for action against McCormick and others over 2 years later. But, as we know we are in the right here, we fight on till the ends are achieved. At minimumm, these are the long term incarcerations of McCormick, Bolton and all the others responsible for peddling deathtrap fake detectors!!!