The trouble with "what if" scenarios is that there is an infinite number of them, and any criticism of a security measure designed to counter a perceived "what if" risk, however small, can be destroyed by the statement: "Yes, but it could happen".
"News Group has agreed to compensation being assessed on the basis that senior employees and directors of N.G.N. knew about the wrongdoing and sought to conceal it by deliberately deceiving investigators and destroying evidence," the statement said, referring to News Group Newspapers.
Bernard Valero, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, said in a statement that the attackers destroyed the ambassador's vehicle and wounded three guards, "and this in front of Syrian security forces manifestly in little hurry to stop these violent acts".
Self-referential statements also profoundly influenced Gödel in his famous incompleteness theorems that destroyed the hope of a complete axiomatised system of mathematics.
A statement derided the idea of the inspectors being allowed in now, suggesting shelling had already destroyed the evidence.
"They destroyed the stables.
Missiles destroyed the convoy.
You destroyed the refrigerator.
