If the dog wanted to attack, he would have.
Here in Chile, though, a commandant was telling me that only a terrorist would draw a diagram of the holding room and that I must have been planning to attack the station, as though I would have wanted to attack a place where he had brought the frustrated minors of Santiago's protests.
Naguib Mahfouz has been around for years, and if our youth wanted to attack him they would have done it long ago.
"On one hand, they wanted to attack her because she had taken a stand against breach of copyright.
International trade secretary Liam Fox, if he had wanted to attack the UK's "lazy" business culture seriously, could have pointed to the UK's large balance of trade deficit and compared it with Germany's surplus.
Belgian journalist Mark Eeckhaut told the BBC the suspects in Verviers had wanted to attack a police station and cause a large number of casualties.
"If Harry had wanted to attack my politics, that was fine," Secretary Powell added.
"The BBC has wanted to attack the pension for years," McDonnell said.
In November, Marcelo Lucero was attacked and stabbed by a group of teenagers in Patchogue, on Long Island, who wanted to attack a "Mexican," the authorities have said.
Mr. McCall had wanted to attack Mr. Pataki, to accuse him of politicizing Sept. 11, of using Sept. 11 to avoid discussing real issues of state, but whenever he tried to, no matter how gently, it backfired.
