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As I'm writing this, Iraqi video broadcast on Al-Jeezera indicates that not only have the Iraqis captured American soldiers, but they have executed many of them.
All the women were rounded up together, grouped in a huddled mass. Their pursuit had been systematic, the soldiers instructions perfectly clear that no female was to be left untouched.
"If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death; their blood is upon them." Leviticus 20:13.
So when Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took some water and washed his hands before the crowd saying, "I am innocent of this man's blood; see to it...