The flag should have a light on it at night (and I'm sure it does), so the simple addition of hard-to-spot video camera would do the trick.

Get a new flag up there asap...make an issue of it in the local papers (Journal American, etc.) and then just wait for the idiots to come back...toss them enough "bait" and they most likely won't be able to resist.

Suggested treatment: Coat them in the same tar, add a bunch of cheap feathers (lots of them) and then buy them a ticket (one-way) to Iraq..escort to airport with no time to clean up and lead them onto the plane wearing signs showing their mid-deads.

Iraq will welcome them with open arms, and then they can join the Taliban...followed quickly by our (then legally) punching holes in them.

Just catch the sumbuggers and I'll be happy to donate one of the airfares.

MB