Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site mnetor.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!mnetor!sophie From: sophie@mnetor.UUCP (Sophie Quigley) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.flame Subject: Re: Re: Terrorism and TWA 847 Message-ID: <1226@mnetor.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 15:48:32 EDT Article-I.D.: mnetor.1226 Posted: Mon Jul 8 15:48:32 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 8-Jul-85 16:33:56 EDT References: <600003@ur-univax.UUCP> <518@hou2g.UUCP>, <1072@ihuxb.UUCP> <925@houxf.UUCP> Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada Lines: 21 Xref: utcs net.followup:4954 net.flame:10748 > ->> Each and every time those Shi'ite (or however you spell > ->> it) terrorists kill a hostage, or let a hostage die, > ->> let's execute 5 or so of the people they're trying to > ->> have released. That'll shut 'em up... > ->> SJBerry > -> > -> Actually, the Adolph Hitler principle states that you should kill > ->ten of "their" people for each one of "ours". > ->H. Reza Taheri > -> > > Don't credit Hitler with this policy, the Romans instituted it much earlier > and that's how we got the word "decimate". > Dave Peak My understanding of "decimation" was that it was a process whereby people were lined up and counted and every 10th person was killed. Does anybody know for sure which meaning is the correct one? -- Sophie Quigley {allegra|decvax|ihnp4|linus|watmath}!utzoo!mnetor!sophie