Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bbnccv.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!bbnccv!jlowry From: jlowry@bbnccv.UUCP (John Lowry) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.flame Subject: Re: Re: Terrorism and TWA 847 Message-ID: <83@bbnccv.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 12:17:35 EDT Article-I.D.: bbnccv.83 Posted: Fri Jun 28 12:17:35 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Jun-85 03:49:13 EDT References: <600003@ur-univax.UUCP> <518@hou2g.UUCP> <1072@ihuxb.UUCP> <925@houxf.UUCP> <416@enmasse.UUCP> Reply-To: jlowry@bbnccv.UUCP (John Lowry) Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, MA Lines: 28 Xref: watmath net.followup:5035 net.flame:10869 Summary: In article <416@enmasse.UUCP> mroddy@enmasse.UUCP (Mark Roddy) writes: >[] >in reference to suggestions that the US murder shiite prisoners... >> >> Don't credit Hitler with this policy, the Romans instituted it much earlier >> and that's how we got the word "decimate". >> >I thought that decimating was used to discipline the legions, not as a >policy for controling populations. >-- > Mark Roddy > Net working, > Just reading the news. > > (harvard!talcott!panda!enmasse!mroddy) Actually, decimate does not refer to the killing of 10 for each one, but to the process of killing every 10th person in a group. You are right that it was used in the Legions, usually for the crime of mutiny or having supported the wrong general etc... Havin' fun .. John Lowry ============================== "Great Maestros, like great Capitalists have a keen sense of humor .." Berke Breathed