Misrata's militias provide better security than those in bomb-prone Benghazi.
Shippers will think twice, they say, before entrusting cargoes to the kidnapping-and bombing-prone Yemenis; Salalah, stuck out in the desert hinterland of south Arabia, could never rival Dubai's air-and surface-freight links, nor its status as an industrial centre.
Early versions of the sticky bomb were prone to leaks as well as breakage in transport.
For years some researchers have claimed that the 600,000 people who have helped build nuclear bombs are prone to all kinds of illnesses as a result.
To make bomb emplacement less catastrophically failure-prone, bomb makers searched for devices that could mechanically break the electric circuit.
The NATO campaign appears not to have involved potentially harmful radioactivity or cluster munitions, which scatter small bombs or mines that typically have high dud rates and are prone to exploding when disturbed.
The removal of militants from the capital, combined with the offensives by neighbouring states, have raised hopes of defeating al-Shabaab, although Mogadishu remains prone to almost daily bomb attacks.
But conventional bombing, even with modern targeting devices, is still prone to error, as was seen this week when three members of the Special Forces were killed by an American bomb in Afghanistan.
Ramps and taxiways deteriorated under the aircraft's weight, the fuel system was prone to leaks and icing, and bombing and fire control computers were unreliable.
Lionsgate obviously felt that the franchise was well enough established to deliver a global carpet-bombing, but aggressive approaches such as this leave you prone to heavy dropoffs, with no new openings to drip-feed in top-up grosses.
It also found that the effects made the agencies more prone to serious errors like the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade.
