Did the authorities mean to keep the peace at the rallies that Moussavi's supporters had vowed to hold, every day, until the election results were annulled, and to attack people at night, after they had dispersed?
Some participants seemed convinced that the survey was designed with an inherent bias against people with creationist views and that the results would be used to attack religion.
Asked at the hearings this week about an opinion article that Ms. Rice had written for The Washington Post, in which she said that the policy could have resulted in "military options to attack Al Qaeda," Mr. Armitage said that there was no direct military component to the policy at the time of the attacks.
As a result the Canadian Corps was to attack with support of formations from the British Fifth Army to the north and the I Anzac Corps and X Corps to the south.
"Obviously the Florio camp wants to attack the results of this poll, because it's horrible for them," said Mr. McLean.
Regardless of how you view Towle's motivations, it's hard to attack his results: the guys in Metallica are, without question, much happier humans.
Other lawyers said the provision permitting challenges based on "any other cause or allegation" that would show voters' intentions had been frustrated could also be used to attack the results in various contested counties.
The big slaughter in Hamburg and Dresden was not the result of a political decision to attack those places in any special way.
Dr Khalid al-Mubarak, the media attache at the Sudan embassy in London, said that fighting in the Jebel Marra district was the result of government troops trying to attack forces loyal to Abdul Wahid al-Nour, leader of the Sudan Liberation Movement.
As a result, the ship was vulnerable to attack by dive bombers.
