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From: jlowry@bbnccv.UUCP (John Lowry)
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Subject: Re: Re: Terrorism and TWA 847
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Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 12:17:35 EDT
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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

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