"Port and starboard lights"
Is it possible to use these as a trigger mechanism? I'm thinking about that signalbomb thing-a-ma-jig found on the freight rail line in southwest Philly.
Marker lights on vessels are burning constantly, so it would be hard to use them as a trigger. Signals for bridge lifts include radio calls or horn blasts, and some channel markers flash at timed intervals for identification.
At least the Netherlands is beginning to wake up.
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20041105-111203-2758r.htm
THE HAGUE The Dutch government yesterday vowed tough measures against what a leading politician called "the arrival of jihad in the Netherlands" after a death threat to a Dutch lawmaker was found spiked with a knife to the body of a slain filmmaker by his radical Muslim attacker.
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Deputy Prime Minister Gerrit Zalm agreed with comments by other politicians who called Mr. van Gogh's slaying a declaration of Islamic jihad, or "holy war."
"We are not going to tolerate this. We are going to ratchet up the fight against this sort of terrorism," he said. "The increase in radicalization is worse than we had thought."
Among measures under consideration is an emergency law to enable authorities to revoke the Dutch nationality of dual citizens suspected of terrorist activity so that they can be deported.
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Jozias van Aartsen, parliamentary speaker for the nationalist People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), the second-largest party in the government of Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, issued a statement that called Mr. van Gogh's slaying tantamount to a declaration of war.
"The jihad has come to the Netherlands and a small group of jihadist terrorists is attacking the principles of our country," he said. "I hope the Netherlands will now move beyond denial and do what is fitting in a democracy take action.
"These people don't want to change our society, they want to destroy it," he said.
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"I'm thinking about that signalbomb thing-a-ma-jig found on the freight rail line in southwest Philly."
Signal bomb? I missed this one. I remember a story where they found a device on the rail line tracks but after investigating, it was learned that it was an alarm device that an employee left on the tracks. Apparently, the employee was catching up on naptime while on the job and he set up a type of alarm system on the track to warn him/wake him when his boss was coming. Was this the same thing or another incident that I missed?