Senator John McCain touts his foreign policy experience, yet he doesn’t know the difference between the Sunnis and the Shiites in Iraq and Iran. Sunnis are a majority in the Arab and Muslim world. Most of the Arabs, Turks, Kurds, and Iranians are Sunni. Turks, Kurds, and Iranians are not Arabs. Iraqis are Arabs, and [...]
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This is the story of how Dervish Korkut, a Moslem in Sarajevo, saved the Sarajevo Haggada (click here), and then Mira Papo Solomanova, a Jew, from the Nazis, and how Mira then saved Dervis’ daughter, Lamija from the Serbs. Click here for the details in the New Yorker, here, here and here for other documentation [...]
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The same messages can be communicated by signalling the letter "K" in Morse code via signal lamp. (While a proper signal lamp may be ideal, a flashlight, probably best employing red LEDs, will certainly fit the bill).
In Morse, the letter "K" is represent as Dash - Dot -- Dash.
The ICS also has a subset, the Medical Signal Code, which uses three-character phrases to communicate brief medical messages.