However, in 2004 a tunnel was built under the city centre with two underground tram stations (" Spui " and " Grote Markt "); it is shared by RandstadRail lines 2, 3 and 4 and tram route 6.

An underground tunnel ( consisting of a passenger walkway and moving sidewalks ) which links the main terminal and concourse B was opened in 2004.

The new underground space was opened as the Weston Link in August 2004.

In the Japanese horror movie Marebito ( 2004 ), the protagonist Masuoka refers to a girl he found chained up underground as his " little Kaspar Hauser ".

The group achieved notability in the underground hip hop community, although they have had little mainstream success in the US, with the exception of the song " This Way ", a 2004 collaboration with Kanye West, Xzibit, and John Legend appearing in the music video.

Mike Whitby, leader of the council from 2004 at one stage spoke in favour of an underground railway, which he claimed would be faster and much cheaper to operate.

In 2004, Seattle replaced its " Transit Tunnel " fleet with diesel-electric hybrid buses, which operate similarly to hybrid cars outside the tunnel and in a low-noise, low-emissions " hush mode " ( in which the diesel engine operates but does not exceed idle speed ) when underground.

As the British Hit Singles & Albums book duly noted " they surfaced from the underground house scene, are regular transatlantic club chart-toppers and won the BRIT Award for Best Dance Act in 2002 and 2004 ".

This system is similar to the original turf system that was in the dome from 1995 – 2004 whereas it can be rolled up and stored underground in a pit at the dome.

Following the twin Sunni and Shiite uprisings of the spring and summer of 2004, and the subsequent decrease in U. S patrols and the creation of " no-go " areas in the Sunni Triangle, Ansar al-Sunna was believed to be part of a loose coalition of insurgent groups ( also including guerrillas from Mohammad's Army and al-Tawhid wal-Jihad ) controlling the Sunni cities of Fallujah, Ramadi, Samarra, and Baquba ( U. S. offensives later largely wrested control from Baquba, Fallujah, and Samarra, although underground guerrilla resistance forces still have a strong presence in those cities ).

Since extension of Line 14 to Saint-Lazare in 2004, it is connected to Saint-Lazare metro station ( which is near Saint-Lazare railway station ) by a long underground passageway.

In 2004, a controversial proposal was made to construct an underground highway tunnel beneath the complex.

In a 2004 Indian Home Ministry estimate numbers were placed at that time at " 9, 300 hardcore underground cadre … around 6, 500 regular weapons beside a large number of unlicensed country-made arms ".

Following a sunset service on the library grounds the previous evening, early on the morning of June 12, 2004 Reagan was laid to rest in the underground vault.

During the summer of 2004, following the closure of CRC Neatishead in Norfolk, completion of the refurbishment of the underground bunker at RAF Boulmer marked the arrival of over 250 personnel to man the Unit.

The Playfair Project completed in 2004 joined the two historic buildings with an underground link.

In August 2004, a section of subway tunnel near Sizihwan Station at the west end of the Orange Line collapsed during construction due to loose sand underground and water break-ins.

From 2000 to 2004 post punk and extreme metal entered the underground scene and ascended among the fans.

In the television series Lost, Jack and Locke enter an underground research facility on the island in 2004, and watch an orientation film made by the mysterious DHARMA Initiative organisation in 1980.

* James Rollins's 2004 novel Sandstorm depicts Ubar as an underground city in a glass bubble with a lake of antimatter at the middle.

In 2004, Empire was added to the National Film Registry in the Library of Congress in recognition of the cultural, historical and aesthetic significance of the movie, as well as the risk of the original movie reels " no longer being preserved " ( even though the Andy Warhol Museum's own preservation of the huge Warhol film / videotape catalogue is unusual in the world of underground film ).

Malcolm Wells retired from the active practice of architecture in June 2004, although he continued his advocacy for underground living to the end of his life.

The cost of the moving walkways themselves became an issue when they became due for refurbishment or replacement, and they were shut down and ultimately removed in 2004, leaving the corridor as a simple underground walkway.

He appeared in the first episode of Tower Block Dreams, a 2004 documentary series on BBC Three which looked into the underground music scene in council estates.

At the end of 2004, bands like Ugra Karma, Nastik, TWC, Albatross, Refused 13 and X-mantra were either inactive, had disbanded or had moved away from the underground scene.

* 2004 – The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.

The M1114 " up-armored " HMMWV, introduced in 2004, also features a similar weapons mount.

The three weapons on the left are small arms captured in Fallujah, Iraq by the United States Marine Corps | US Marine Corps in 2004

During the 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis, it is theorized that a multitude of hand-held thermobaric weapons were used by the Russian Armed Forces in their efforts to retake the school.

In July 2004, an inventory of classified weapons data revealed that four hard disk drives were missing: two of the drives were subsequently found to have been improperly moved to a different building, but another two remained unaccounted for.

In 2004 he was found guilty in Zimbabwe of " attempting to buy weapons " ( BBC 27 August ) allegedly for a coup in Equatorial Guinea ( see below ).

On 27 August 2004 he was found guilty in Zimbabwe of purchasing arms, allegedly for use in the plot ( he admitted trying to procure dangerous weapons, but said that they were to guard a diamond mine in DR Congo ).

In 2004, German weapons manufacturer Diehl BGT Defence announced their own supercavitating torpedo, Barracuda, now officially named " Superkavitierender Unterwasserlaufkörper " or " supercavitating underwater running body "

* ( 2004 ): Biogeographical variation in community response to root allelochemistry: Novel weapons and exotic invasion.

In October 2004, Bush said of Duelfer ’ s analysis: " The chief weapons inspector, Charles Duelfer, has now issued a comprehensive report that confirms the earlier conclusion of David Kay that Iraq did not have the weapons that our intelligence believed were there.

In 2004, author Jon Ronson cited an unclassified military report titled " Non-Lethal Weapons: Terms and References " 21 acoustic weapons were listed, in various stages of development, including the Infrasound (" Very low-frequency sound which can travel long distances and easily penetrate most buildings and vehicles ... biophysical effects are projected to be: nausea, loss of bowels, disorientation, vomiting, potential internal organ damage or death may occur.

However, in 2004, Bruce Blair, president of the Center for Defense Information stated: " I wouldn't be at all surprised if nuclear weapons are used over the next 15 or 20 years, first and foremost by a terrorist group that gets its hands on a Russian nuclear weapon or a Pakistani nuclear weapon ".

In 2004, the U. S. Global Threat Reduction Initiative ( GTRI ) was established in order to consolidate nuclear stockpiles of highly enriched uranium ( HEU ), plutonium, and assemble nuclear weapons at fewer locations.

In March 2004, Kristen Rand, the legislative director of the Violence Policy Center, criticized the soon-to-expire ban by stating, " The 1994 law in theory banned AK-47s, MAC-10s, Uzis, AR-15s and other ' assault weapons '.

Since the assault weapons ban expired on March 2, 2004, legislation to renew the ban has been proposed a number of times unsuccessfully.

On March 2, 2004, the Senate voted down the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act ( a bill to bar firearms manufacturers and dealers from being held liable for crimes committed with their products ) after a ten-year extension of the assault weapons ban was attached to it, sponsored by Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California.

Although the federal assault weapons ban expired in 2004, several states have their own assault weapons bans, which sometimes differ from the former federal law.

In the 21 August 2004 edition of the International Herald Tribune van Creveld wrote, " Had the Iranians not tried to build nuclear weapons, they would be crazy.

He told BBC Panorama in 2004 that Defence Intelligence Staff in Whitehall did not have a high degree of confidence any of the facilities identified, targeted and bombed in Operation Desert Fox were active in producing weapons of mass destruction.

In 2004 Rasmussen's government came under attack based on questions of how much intelligence it had with regard to Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

Nonetheless, Clinton's Secretary of Defense William Cohen testified to the 9 / 11 Commission in 2004, characterizing Al Shifa as a " WMD-related facility ", which played a " chemical weapons role " such as to pose a risk that it, with the help of the Iraqi chemical weapons program connections he also testified to, might help Al Qaeda get chemical weapons technology.