Showing posts with label Thailand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thailand. Show all posts

Saturday, 17 August 2013

I RECOMMEND!

The following article in the Bangkok Post. Written by Jens Franz, this piece gives an excellent insight into the history of the GT200, and the trial and conviction of Gary Bolton.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/investigation/365168/the-gt200-on-trial

Tuesday, 13 November 2012

MORE FROM THAILAND - GT200

This piece taken from The Star Online. A depressing report in some ways, but there are signs that the message is beginning to sink in with some in Thailand at least.

Thursday September 13, 2012

Hundreds jailed by 'fake' bomb detectors in Thai south


YALA, Thailand: Implicated by the wand of a "bogus" bomb detector, Hassan became one of hundreds detained in Thailand's insurgency-racked south because of equipment that experts say is useless.
Scandal over the Thai army's use of the GT200 detectors has deepened rancour towards the authorities in the Muslim-majority border region, where nearly 5,300 people have died in an eight-year conflict that shows no sign of abating.
Human rights activists say more than 400 people have been locked up - some for up to two years - on the basis of spurious evidence gleaned by the device, which is at the centre of a British fraud probe.
"I was playing football at my school when someone shot at soldiers nearby," said Hassan, who was held for 29 days without charge over the 2008 incident in Yala province - a hot-bed of violence.
"The soldiers entered the school looking for the gunman. They lined us up and used the GT200. The antenna pointed to me... and they took me away," he added, asking for his identity to be withheld because he fears reprisals for speaking out over his detention.
Billed as being able to detect minute traces of explosives, gun powder and even drugs, the GT200 is the army's main detection tool.
The hand-held device, which is claimed to be powered by the user's static electricity rather than a battery, is advertised as using a substance-detecting "sensor card" inside a plastic handle to trigger a twitch of its antenna in the direction of explosives.
Evidence debunking the powers of the GT200 - sold by Britain-based Global Technical Ltd - has long been in circulation, with experts describing it as little more than a radio aerial stuck on a useless piece of plastic despite the company's claims that it can detect explosives from hundreds of metres away.
In July the man behind the GT200 was charged in Britain with "dishonestly representing" the device as "capable of detecting explosives".
Several other British businessmen are awaiting trial for selling similarly defunct equipment around the world - including to Iraq.
A Thai government probe concluded the device works only 25 percent of the time, a success rate critics attribute to nothing more than random chance.
"Tossing a coin would be more accurate," said Angkhana Neelapaijit, of the Justice for Peace foundation, which uncovered the scandal.
"People in the south knew the GT200 was fake from the first time it was used" in 2007, she said. "But the Thai authorities refused to listen... all trust in the government and army has been lost."
Thailand's highest investigating agency is now mulling legal action against Global Technical and its Thai distributors.
But the powerful military has refused to concede it was duped over its rumoured $20 million acquisition, or apologise to those held in what rights groups say is a flagrant miscarriage of justice.
Hassan said he was threatened and interrogated in detention and forced to point out friends from a school photograph.
Among them was Ayub who said he was arrested with no further evidence and held for two years before he was freed without a conviction or an apology.
"I'm so angry. They took two years away from me but I am scared it can happen again," Ayub told AFP, also asking for his identity to be protected.
He said he now carries the stigma of having been accused of links to the militants, who are believed to want greater autonomy and kill both Buddhists and Muslims in near-daily bomb or gun attacks.
The Thai army refutes accusations of arbitrary detentions based on the faulty device.
"We found real evidence - guns, weapons, grenades - that's why we arrested them," Colonel Pramote Promin, deputy spokesman for the Internal Security Operations Command said, addressing the wider issue of detentions.
"It might be a hallucination but we found (weapons) many times. It might be a fluke or coincidence that it worked," he said, adding that the effectiveness could be "something above science".
Despite his endorsement, the army appears to have stopped mass round-ups of men for "wanding" by the device, which were commonplace between 2007 and 2010, according to locals in Yala and Pattani provinces.
But soldiers still check cars and roadsides with the device, raising fears its continued use is exposing the security forces - and civilians they are supposed to protect - to greater risks.
"It's a big scandal," said Jessada Denduangboripant, a biologist at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University who was one of the first Thai experts to question the device.
He is sceptical that a probe by Thailand's top investigative body will apportion blame to the "powerful people" behind the purchase of the detector.
But as long as authorities refuse to admit fault, victims will continue to be denied justice, said Kaosar Aleemama of the Muslim Attorney Centre, which represents Hassan and Ayub.
"These people have never heard someone say 'I am sorry' for taking their freedom," she added. "It is an issue of human dignity." - AFP

Colonel Pramote Promin sounds like he has been taking lessons in BS from Major General al Jabiri, the ex-head of the bomb squad in Iraq who was responsible for purchasing the ADE651, when he says:

the effectiveness could be "something above science".

A most interesting concept don't you think? It leaves me wondering what he could possibly mean? Some might say that something above science is money. I could not possibly comment.

LATEST FROM THAILAND

Well, seems despite all the evidence the GT200 and Alpha 6 are still in use in Thailand, although there are some glimmers of hope that ongoing coverage such as the following piece from The Bangkok Post will eventually have the desired effect. Let us hope so!

Brits ask DSI to testify on Comstrac Co

The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has been asked by police in the UK to testify against a British company accused of providing Thailand with useless bomb detectors.
The case involves Comstrac Co Ltd, which is accused of fraud in connection with the manufacture, promotion and sale of GT200 and Alpha 6 bomb detecting equipment.
Pol Lt Col Pong-in Intarakhao, director of the Security Crime Bureau, said British police have asked the DSI to testify about the false technology and the damage it has caused to the country. A hearing is tentatively scheduled during March-April next year, he said.
Pol Lt Col Pong-in was speaking after yesterday's meeting with British police responsible for the fraud case against Comstrac.
None of the countries which bought the device have filed a complaint against the company, he said. About 20 countries were reportedly "duped" into buying the devices.
City of London Police's Overseas Anti-Corruption Unit has charged six Britons with fraud in connection with the manufacture, promotion and sale of the device to foreign jurisdictions between Jan 15, 2007 and July 12, 2012.
In January 2010, the UK government banned the export of the GT200 and the Alpha 6 to Iraq and Afghanistan, warning that they were "wholly ineffective" at detecting explosives.
Comstrac set up two companies with three subsidiaries to distribute the detectors in Thailand. A total of 1,576 units were purchased by 14 agencies with the army being the biggest purchaser of the device. Most of the bomb detectors were deployed in the violence-plagued southernmost provinces.
Pol Lt Col Pong-in said the DSI has received documents from British authorities showing that the GT200 and Alpha 6 are ineffective in detecting explosives.
The findings match the result of the tests conducted locally.
"The conclusion is that GT200 and Alpha 6 can't detect explosives and narcotics as claimed by the manufacturer," he said.

There are one or two minor inaccuracies in the report in that the GT200 was sold to Thailand by Global Technical, and the Alpha 6 by Comstrac.

I will post again shortly with another article from the Thai media that has just been brought to my attention.

The sorry tale continues!

Tuesday, 6 December 2011

GONNA MAKE YOU AN OFFER YOU CAN'T REFUSE

To:
Brinley Salzmann ADS Export Director; Maj. General Alan Sharman (so very retired!): All those in the British Defence Establishment (e.g. MOD, Royal Engineers, Defence Manufacturers Association, DESO as was); Foreign Office and UK Embassies; Depratment For BIS (ex DTI i.e. Depratment for Trade and Industry, OR Timidity and Inaction as Private Eye used to call them, OR IZZY, WIZZY, LET'S GET BIZZY, NOT!; James McCormick, ADE651 and ATSC and all his agents and supporters and leeches; Gary Bolton, GT200 and Global Technical and all his agents and leeches and supporters; David Vollmar and Frank Trier of SNIFFEX and now HEDD1 and Unival, and all their agents, supporters and leeches; Simon Sherrard of the amazing disappearing ComsTrac and his Alpha 6 and PSD11; Chuck Christensen of H3Tec and Gobbledegook par excellence, and all his agents, supporters and leeches; Thomas Afilani and his magical Electroscope wild west freak show; LRL (long range locator fans of any description, hue or religion, or sexual orientation, disability - SEE, NO PREJUDICE HERE! HEE HEE!; Diodebell and the absolutely amazing and astonishingly unconvincing AL-6D; Old "It's very cheap my dowsing rod is!" Mr Khoji on the subcontinent, with the incontinent!; Horizon Group India; General Hadji Gorgiou of Prosec in Lebanon and the ADE651 Iraq connection; Stelian Ilie and his chums at Mira Telecom in Romania who took McCormick money and sold the ADE651 for him; Yuri Markov of TASC Bulgaria who 'invented' SNIFFEX and HEDD1 and all his associates and leeches; Wade Quattlebaum and all his Quadro Tracker associates and leeches; Malcolm Roe and Sam Tree who apparently helped Bolton bring MOLE to the UK in the first place; Colin Port and his keystone rozzers for reasons the better of us know already; The Mexican Authorities for buying and using the GT200 and the ADE651; The Thai corrupted for the same charge as the Mexicans; General al Jabiri and his corrupt mates in Iraq for their ADE651 purchases; AND TO AND FOR ALL THE VICTIMS OF THIS DESPICABLE DOUBLE IMMORAL TALE (I must have missed some - please fill in the gaps Techo et al!!) AND TO ANY OTHER SHYSTER, DOWSER, PSYCHIC, CHARLATAN, AND FRAUD:

Gonna make you an offer you can't refuse
Gonna put my finger on you
Cause I need you so
And I won't take no for an answer

In my life I've had a time
Had to fight for what was mine
And I don't intend to lose my crown

But every time I look at you
And the beautiful things you do (NOT!!)
Every single nerve in my body says hold it down
So now I'm putting about the feeble word like what must be must be
Didn't you know that you belonged to me

Gonna make you an offer you can't refuse
Like a puppet thing, when I pull the string
You're the dancer
Gonna make you an offer you can't refuse
Gonna put my finger on you
Cause I need you so
And I won't take no for an answer

Did you ever sit waiting, hoping, wanting something that never was going
to be

I've got a feeling deep inside
That I need you by my side
And I won't let up baby till I do
Yes I know I make you smile
But things will change in a little while
Cause I never say a thing I mean that don't come true

Believe me I don't want to hurt you
But my heart won't set you free
Surely you know that you belong to me

Gonna make you an offer you can't refuse
Gonna put my finger on you
Like a puppet thing, when I pull the string
You're the dancer
Gonna make you an offer you can't refuse
Put my finger on you
Cause I need you so
But I won't take no for an answer

Gonna make you an offer you can't refuse
Gonna put my finger on you
Like a puppet thing, when I pull the string
You're the dancer
Gonna make you an offer you can't refuse
Put my finger on you
Cause I need you so
And I won't take no for an answer

Thanks to Jimmy Helms for his oh so true words, and what a great song guys!!!

Next post: The Offer I Made To Brinley, Maj. Gen. Sharman, and the ADS. And a repeat of the offers we have made to all fraudsters, whatever their fraud really!

Love Ya Baby! P and the FEDC


Wednesday, 30 November 2011

VOLLMAR VOMITS AGAIN

OR

Regurgitation. How David Vollmar, Frank Trier and their merry men at Unival try to repeat the same old worn out arguments.

YUCK! More nauseous gaseous gastric bile from Germany. David Vollmar yet again tries to defend himself, his company and the HEDD1 (formerly SNIFFEX and SNIFFEX PLUS). Well, we assume it is David, or maybe it was toy soldier with a toy appendage, Frank Trier? It is unsigned, but that does not stop it being garbage!

So, here in the style we at the Fake Explosives Detectors Campaign are famous for, is the defence of Vollmar/Trier/Unival/HEDD1. Is that the best you can do boys? We have heard it all before AD NAUSEAM, hence the title of VOLLMAR VOMITS....

Want to know the best thing about the statement from Unival? Well, it is the fact that in a few short paragraphs, they slide in most of the major excuses. What economy with words! Shame they are also economic with the actualite. i.e they do bullshit or lie a lot. Do you know when they are lying? We do! When they open their mouths! HA HA HA HA!

Them in black. FEDC in blood red! 

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 5:25 PM, unival® group Germany <press@unival-group.com> wrote:
The following statement is made on behalf of unival® group, our handheld explosive detector HEDD®1 (LIE 1 - they do not have a working Handheld explosives detector. It is a dowsing rod in fancy dress, and dowsing cannot and does not work anywhere, anyhow, anytime!) and the related methodology only! (LIE 2 - There is no related or actual methodology behind HEDD1, other than the ideomotor effect - LOOK IT UP!- ask any vaguely competent Physicist whether the so called working principle of Magnetic Electrostatic Detection, using a couple of magnets and a radio aerial has any chance of detecting anything?)

Peter Robison,
The Fake Detector Campaigners,

Your email is incredibly embarrassing and totally wrongful. (Embarrassing to you we agree! Wrongful. NO. Not even a little bit, let alone totally! You have produced ZERO EVIDENCE, so how can we be wrong?) It is a very sad example of the damaging potential caused by misguided fanatics. (We are fanatics? What? the people who want to stop fake explosives detectors giving false hope and leading to awful loss of life? COME OFF IT YOU F'ING IDIOTS!) The hate and negative energy that you spread is very similar to the destructiveness of fanatics, who attack people because of their religion, believe or color. You have lost any objectivity! (UMMMMM? Where to start? Objectivity? Got any independent testing done yet David. like you promised back in 2009? We would never attack anyone for their colour. That is a slur on our reputations, but hey, coming from a chump like David Vollmar we can take any amount of ad hominem attack and still not be diverted. SORRY DAVEY BOY! Nice try! As for religion and belief, most of us here are quite happy to attack anything that has ZERO EVIDENCE, like fake explosives detectors or religion. La meme chose! Non!)

HEDD1 and all previous generations based on the Magneto Electrostatic Detection (MED) method have been sold to governmental organizations in more than 35 countries so far, based on successful proof of concept and functionality. (Still not one of your customers in 35 Countries is prepared to come out and admit they have bought this wonder device? Strange!? We keep saying that if we were a small country with limited money for security, yet we had the magical HEDD1, we would tell everybody if we were so confident it worked. This would act as an amazing deterrent to would be terrorists and drug smugglers, but would make us look great in the eyes of our people and the World for protecting our citizens so magnificently with the best invention ever, the HEDD1. But no, not one of them will back you up publicly! How about if you won't tell us who they are, you send them an invitation from us? Ask them all whether just one of them will admit to being a buyer of the miraculously brilliantly useful HEDD1? Just one will do, to start! Ask them if their highly trained by you operatives will participate in a double blind protocol testing program, so we can finally prove this one way or the other, since you won't for some strange reason/) HEDD1 is an active device. (Regrettably you are still active trying to sell your lies. HEDD1 is not and cannot be active other than to detect the corrupt, the gullible or the stupid.) It creates a Modulated Magnetic Field (MMF) that is specially tuned for the bond energy in Nitro Compounds, which are present in most common explosives. The methodology is protected by patent. (Really! MMF! TUNED! BOND ENERGY!- is that 007 energy? - NITRO COMPOUNDS! PSEUDOSCIENTFIC BABBLE! Or PSB Syndrome again! PATENT MY ARSE! We have shown before how patents do not necessarily guarantee functionality. See endless history of patents for things that do not work e.g. perpetual motion/energy machines. Stuff your patents David. They are as worthless as you are!)

The similarity to reference-card devices is only based on a similar shape. (The similarity is because they are the same ideomotor dowsing con! Simple as that!)The antenna of HEDD1 is necessary in order to apply the principle of triangulation, which is the most accepted way of determination of a location.  (Stop trying to talk pseudobabblescience David! Of course any fool knows that one triangulates for accurate positioning. But that means you have to be able to detect something first! So, if the aerial is just the pointer pointy bit, how do your patently absurd magnets detect the nitro compounds and transmit a signal to the aerial? Of course they can't and don't! Or are you calling Sidney Alford a liar?

Neither unival group nor HEDD1 and the MED method are part of the UK based investigations against reference-card devices. (Really? We understood that the UK agent for Unival, John Wyatt 'Twerp' - Colonel Blimp Retired - is under investigation? Do you know something we don't? That would be a first! Do tell!) No export ban exists against our devices or technology! (We keep telling you f'ing fraudsters. Just because the authorities are weak, corrupt, stupid, useless or implicated, or don't act for some other non-reason, does not mean you are right. It just means they are wrong.) We are currently working with a number of industrial/ scientific organizations to further develop the technology respectively to integrate this technology into new methods for remote detection. (WHO ARE THESE INDUSTRIAL/SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATIONS? Or are they strangely shy of any association with you, like your customers appear to be? We are serious enquirers. In fact, I promise to be your best salesman if you do prove HEDD1! Honest! In fact, why not send us 100 units immediately on a Sale Or Return basis. I promise if it works we will shift them in about 24 hours, then we can negotiate a full UK agency. After all, privately you have to admit John Wyatt did fuck it up on Newsnight, with all that bs about "intangible science." I mean, you tell us it is completely tangible MED/MFF/BOND ENERGY/NITRO DETECTION. Go on, tell us what is intangible about that? Or is it like when McCormick said the ADE651 was "akin to dowsing." So, all we need to become one of your most serious and committed enquirers ever, is some proof that HEDD1 works, and sorry, anecdotal or secret evidence doesn't cut it, sadly. After all, we could all sell horse shit as gold if we were allowed to say it was and not get contradicted!) More detailed information is available upon request for any serious enquirer. (Great, We can't wait!)

The integration of our technology as a complementary tool to protective measures helps organizations to protect against Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). (The old get out of jail clause i.e don't use HEDD1 in isolation. Use dogs and other detection equipment as well. That way, if HEDD1 fails no one can say which method failed, and if they find something HEDD1 can falsely claim the credit. Clever ain't it! NO! We can see right through this kind of disclaimer/excuse. After all, we have heard it all before! And that sick call to the emotions using the expression IEDs. DAVID and FRANK. Real men die almost daily trying to save lives by searching for and defusing bombs and IEDs. You claim you have something that can help them, yet no major Western Government, Armed Forces or Security Service, or Police, or Border Guards appears to have bought the HEDD1. If it was so marvellous then wouldn't you have sold them by now? Also, how come you were caught with your pants down in that Thai test, when you claimed you were just helping your local agent, but oddly, like McCormick and Bolton you were really just desperately trying to flog to corrupt regimes, and not focusing a much cheaper sales effort in Europe? Odd? Despite John Wyatt 'Twerps' pathetic attempts to sell it here!) To my best of knowledge there is currently no device available in the market that is as easy to handle and as cost efficient as HEDD1 in terms of explosive detection from remote distance. (Just prove it then! We can prove it. Ask Sidney Alford, or is he not a valid expert?)

You will be held responsible for any damage caused with wrong statements. (What damage? You have already previously admitted that we have damaged your HEDD1 business. GOOD. We are so happy! Go on. Hold us responsible!! Is it two or three legal threats you have flung at us over nearly three years. Funny. Still no action. Just like the HEDD1!) Stop writing such emails. (Not until you prove us wrong! Ho Ho!!) Stop wasting time! (Not a bit of it David. We love wasting your time and will keep doing so until you are down or dead!)

To all recipients of the emails from Peter Robinson aka FEDC: Please mark them as spam or demand deletion from this mailing list.  

TO ALL RECIPIENTS - SIMPLY ASK DAVID OR FRANK FOR THE DETAILS OF INDEPENDENT AUTHORITATIVE DOUBLE BLIND PROTOCOL TESTING THAT THEY HAVE UNDERTAKEN, AND HAS BEEN REPLICATED SUCCESSFULLY. IF SO BUY, BUY, BUY. IF NOT EITHER BUY AND DIE, OR DON'T! AND BYE BYE BYE TO UNIVAL, HEDD1, DAVID VOLLMAR, FRANK TRIER, JOHN WYATT 'TWERP' AND ANY OTHERS INVOLVED IN SELLING OR TRYING TO SELL HEDD1

 unival® group GmbH · Am Hofgarten 4 · 53113 Bonn · Germany 
 The Fake Explosives Detectors Campaign
Confidentiality Notice: The information contained within this e-mail sent by unival group is confidential and is intended for the named recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient please notify us by telephone immediately on +49 228 926858-0 or return it to us by e-mail quoting the name of the sender and the addressee. Please then delete it from your system. Encryption: Please note that this e-mail and any attachments have not been encrypted.  They may therefore be liable to be compromised.  This is an inherent risk in relation to e-mail.  We do not, to the extent permitted by law, accept any liability (whether in contract, negligence or otherwise) for any external compromise of security and/or confidentiality in relation to transmissions sent by e-mail. Viruses: Please note that we do not, to the extent permitted by law, accept any liability (whether in contracts, negligence or otherwise) for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan the attachments (if any). THIS EMAIL IS OPEN FOR ANYONE TO SEE AND READ. AFTER ALL. WE HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE, UNLIKE DAVID!

Friday, 19 March 2010

A CALL TO ARMS...

legs and other body parts.

Just thought Jim McCormick (ATSC ADE651), Gary Bolton (Global Technical GT200), David Vollmar (SNIFFEX HEDD1), Simon Sherrard (Alpha 6) and any others selling fake explosive detectors, might like to face up to the sight of someone caiught in an explosion. Lovely isn't it!

And you pieces of SH1T go round pretending that you can prevent these atrocities.

Time to come clean boys and girls, or top yourselves for your disgusting cynical behaviour.

You might think things have gone a bit quiet, but don't worry boys. There's plenty more to come!