Capture Quotes
He was describing the Battle of Zagonara in 1424 and Molinella in 1427. Although major battles of the time the only casualties in the later were horses, and in the former, three armored men fell off their horses into the mud and drowned. Battle was almost like a capture the flag game with uniforms and weapons displayed.
Describing the conquest and destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple in 70 AD.
The reference was to Iraq president Sadaam Hussein. The CIA had determined his location and to implement the George W. Bush administration’s policy of regime change, the Air Force had been ordered to send two Stealth Bombers with “bunker buster” bombs to assassinate Sadaam. The mission was completed flawlessly and both planes hit the target destroying it completely. However, it turned out that the CIA intelligence was inaccurate, and Sadaam was not at the location. This quotation is often used to illustrate the problem of believing early action reports and the fallibility of CIA intelligence at the time.
It was this code, and its implementation in Saipan, Okinawa, and other Japanese held islands taken by the allies that caused Japanese soldiers to fight to the death or commit suicide. The prospect of this code being followed by Japanese soldiers, civilians or both in an invasion of the Japanese mainland, was one of the major arguments in favor of dropping the Atomic Bomb in World War II.
The phrase “give him a call” is interesting before the telephone. The ad gave a general area where he hunted and might be found. Potential customers were to go to that general area and “give him a call” vocally.
