Filed under: Green Laser News, Laser News — Wendy @ 1:45 pm November 19, 2007

Green Laser DazzlersThe U.S. State Department has a high-tech solution to keeping its security contractors from killing any more Iraqi civilians unnecessarily: Give the mercs laser dazzlers and helmet cameras. 

U.S. officials also tell ABC News that “the State Department plans to double the number of its diplomatic security agents to 90 so that one of its agents can accompany every convoy guarded by Blackwater and other private security contractors.” 

This isn’t the first time the dazzlers — which temporarily blind targets, with pulses of green laser light – have been pitched as life-savers for non-combatants in Iraq.

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