But the damaging attack on one of the most heavily protected men in the country underlined the resources and reach of the insurgency at a time when western forces are already heading home.
Mr Conroy's mishandling of the media legislation, including his provocation of a damaging attack from the press barons, might reflect poorly on Ms Gillard's own judgment.
Amid all the government's rhetoric about serving the interests of the many not just the privileged few, the planned cuts to apprenticeship funding – published on the quiet in the middle of the summer recess – are a direct and damaging attack on the life chances of young people.
Three days earlier, looters had targeted the museum in what turned out to be the most damaging attack on an Egyptian cultural institution in recent history.
Over the years the Maoists have managed to launch a series of damaging attacks on Indian security forces.
The ad also seeks to combat one of Mr. McGreevey's most damaging attacks on Mr. Schundler throughout the campaign -- the assertion that he supports a law that would legalize concealed weapons.
But working at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Lindahl worked out that there must be thousands of potentially damaging attacks on the genome every day – an onslaught that would make human life impossible.
The two most senior figures and leading reformists of the organisation – that represents 127,000 rank-and-file police officers – said on Monday they were leaving after months of damaging attacks on the group, which had been damned for a "serious loss of influence" and incompetence in an independent report.
But some of the most potentially damaging attacks on Mr. Santorum have the potential to backfire on Mr. Romney.
He was in the thick of President George W. Bush's most damaging attacks on the rule of law.
