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I'm putting this on my "to do" list. — Rickyrab | Talk 03:59, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I started to expand this story. I hope some others can contribute. - Tim Masterson, 11:10 PM, July 29, 2005.

Good work. BTW, I wonder if we might want to move this to simply "Black Tom Island", which, for what it's worth, gets just about the same number of google hits as "Black Tom explosion".--Pharos 05:55, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Smudge Pots?

Two of the guards who had lit the smudge pots were immediately arrested. What does this mean? I know what a smudge pot is, but there is no mention of why they would be used. PrometheusX303 21:00, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spies

The article contains no mention of flame. Lothar Witzke and Kurt Jahnke who according to this article were the oners who set the blast. [1] Rmhermen 06:09, 31 July 2006 (UTC)