The New York Times’ blog about news coverage, The Lede, has a good piece by Patrick J. Lyons about the current Las Vegas ricin incident. “Scary Stuff That Won’t Stay in Vegas” updates the story concisely, and provides some context:After all, nobody is known to have been hurt so far, though seven people — the [...]
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Wikileaks has a report, “U.S. Military Equipment in Iraq (2007),” based on leaked documents, outlining the array and cost of equipment held by United States forces in Iraq: [photopress:M33A1_500_x_193_via_Wikileaks.jpg,full,pp_image] Important points (on our first reading) include: Chemical and biological weapons portable facilities The United States has been caught with at least 2,386 low-grade chemical weapons [...]
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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.