What can be said, though, is that terrorists are unable to stop cities, either.
This union wants to do what the terrorists were unable to do -- bring the city to its knees -- and we're not going to let them do it".
But the US official who breaks the news that they are no longer considered to be top al-Qaeda terrorists seems unable to countenance the idea that the tortures inflicted by his colleagues might have been to blame for this fiasco.
America has created -- not through malevolence but through negligence -- precisely the situation the Bush administration has described as a breeding ground for terrorists: a state unable to control its borders or provide for its citizens' rudimentary needs.
Facing a growing security threat from two terrorist groups and unable to persuade Congress to enact his program, he suspended the legislature and the Supreme Court in 1992.
It accused his government of being ineffective against a spate of terrorist attacks and unable to tackle a worldwide economic crisis, which is beginning to be felt here.
I've issued orders to my police to kill terrorists when they are unable to take them otherwise".
The indigenous Fijians' Great Council of Chiefs, which is mainly a symbolic body, has not supported the terrorists but has felt unable to condemn them outright.Mr Speight keeps changing his demands, but the authorities even the army, which has nominally taken power keep giving into them.
After the terrorist attacks, Elliott was unable to get to South Florida, and the Dolphins signed Harry Swayne instead.
"He considers that, unless he receives a public acknowledgment that he is not a terrorist, he will be unable to get his life back together again".
