事实上，好战分子有充足的时间完成破坏行动 — — 在石像上打眼并填满炸药，而后将其引爆 — — 而这一切破坏活动居然得以在光天化日之下从容进行。
In fact, militants were able to carry out their work – drilling holes in the rock, filling them with explosives, and detonating them – in broad daylight.