Stripes

David McIlroy

HINTS:

• What color do all the stripes have in common?

SOLUTION:

Each image is a ribbon from a UN mission/tour.

"Seeing the elephant" is a term for the first experience in a war.

The missions and their HQ:

ONUSAL	El Salvador
UNIFIL	Lebanon
UNAVEM	Angola
ONUMOZ	Mozambique
UNPREDEP	Macedonia
MINURSO	Western Sahara
UNAMIR	Rwanda

If you take the ISO 3661-1 code (IANA cctld) associated with each of these nations:

SV
LB
AO
MZ
MK
EH
RW

which reads down the first letter as "SLAMMER", a recent virus.

Answer: SLAMMER

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2004 MIT Mystery Hunt