Striking the Balance

[Ian G Batten]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, David Hansen wrote:
> They then need to activate the appropriate plan. A posting to a 
> newsgroup is a perfectly adequate way of doing this, much as the BBC 
> was used to activate terrorists in the 1939-45 war. There is no way 
> of following such a communication.

I may be a cynic, but I always assume that all those ``John 4:19'' and
``Thanks to Saint Jude'' smallads in the Telegraph are spooks or crims,
along with the lonely hearts ads in the back of Private Eye.

ian