The hotel attack claimed 16 lives, while the airliner apparently employed decoy devices to deflect the rockets.
When you attach a scent to a decoy or training device, throw it in the water, and see your dog fetch the trainer and return it to you, make sure to let your dog know what a good job it has done.
The United Kingdom, after adopting the A-3 in 1969, refined it into the A-3TK, or Chevaline, system, which was fitted with such devices as decoy warheads and electronic jammers for penetrating Soviet ballistic-missile defenses around Moscow.
Once he was at a safe distance, Mr. Smadi dialed a cellphone he thought would ignite a bomb in the vehicle, but the device was actually a decoy provided by F.B.I. agents posing as operatives of Al Qaeda, according to the F.B.I.
Seeking to catch and eventually deter addicts who steal painkillers, the New York Police Department will stock pharmacy shelves with decoy pill bottles that contain tracking devices.
But yesterday German Federal Criminal Police said they had finally caught up with the gunman after mounting a massive search operation that involved installing car number plate detection devices across Germany, the use of decoy lorries and the offer of a €100,000 (£85,000) reward.
According to Internet sites about military matters, the device is used to confuse approaching missiles by creating a decoy trail in the air — bits of aluminum to trick radar, for example, or flares that create 3,000 degrees of misleading heat to fool infrared sensors.
The cars will be equipped with partitions, hidden cameras and audio recording devices, and teams of backup officers in several vehicles will ride close to each decoy cab to protect the undercover officers, the official said.
The practice of "baiting" is widespread in American policing to draw out potential criminals, whether it's using undercover agents to buy or sell drugs or pose as sex workers, or using decoy trucks full of merchandise, cars, bikes, computers or cell phones, or leaving packages with GPS devices on people's porches.
LG Decoy: The big thing about this slider is that it comes with a bluetooth headset, which slips right into the device itself.
