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From: sophie@mnetor.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
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Subject: Re: Re: Terrorism and TWA 847
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Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 15:48:32 EDT
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> ->> 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?
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Sophie Quigley
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