万花筒 2012-03-13&03-15 英特种部队在尼日利亚营救人质失败

 First of all, the Nigerian secret service raided a hideout, the Boko Haram hideout in Kaduna. This led to the arrest of five men, among them a guy called Abu Mohammed who was the leader of kidnap gang. Now after being interrogated¹ for two days, the group finally gave up the locations of the hostages. It revealed the hostages were being held in Sokoto. So the authorities acted immediately after learning that the kidnappers³ were likely to kill the pair. Special Boat Service commandos were already in the country and the Prime Minister authorized⁴ the raid. And they went in at about 10 o'clock UK time. 

 

The team working with the Nigerian forces rammed⁵ the wall compound in Sokoto with an armed personnel carrier, killing⁶ one kidnapper² at the entrance to the building.And then two others then executed the hostages tried to escape. And the Nigerians say they killed another six. 

 

We've also since learned that one of triggers, probably the trigger to the whole operation was the day before, we understand some soldiers--we don't know if they are Nigerian or Britains or whether they are Nigerian secret police--but some elements of the security services, one of the two countries were compromised in the area around the compound. What I mean is that they were spotted⁷ by the kidnappers. And the kidnappers then became extremely tense. They may, some intelligence indicated they started to talk on telephones about killing their hostages or moving them, because they had been found in that place in Sokoto. So that is the likelihood why so quickly triggered from deployment⁸ of special forces into the country cause there is an understood location to a raid rather than any gap for planning.

1 interrogated   

v.询问( interrogate的过去式和过去分词 )；审问；（在计算机或其他机器上）查询

参考例句：

• He was interrogated by the police for over 12 hours. 他被警察审问了12个多小时。
• Two suspects are now being interrogated in connection with the killing. 与杀人案有关的两名嫌疑犯正在接受审讯。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 kidnapper   

n.绑架者，拐骗者

参考例句：

• The kidnapper was shot dead then and there by the armed policeman.绑架者被武装警察当时当地击毙。
• The kidnapper strangled the child with a piece of string.绑票的人用一根绳子把这孩子勒死了。

3 kidnappers   

n.拐子，绑匪( kidnapper的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• They were freed yesterday by their kidnappers unharmed. 他们昨天被绑架者释放了，没有受到伤害。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The kidnappers had threatened to behead all four unless their jailed comrades were released. 帮匪们曾经威胁说如果印度方面不释放他们的同伙，他们就要将这四名人质全部斩首。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 authorized   

a.委任的，许可的

参考例句：

• An administrative order is valid if authorized by a statute.如果一个行政命令得到一个法规的认可那么这个命令就是有效的。

5 rammed   

v.夯实（土等）( ram的过去式和过去分词 )；猛撞；猛压；反复灌输

参考例句：

• Two passengers were injured when their taxi was rammed from behind by a bus. 公共汽车从后面撞来，出租车上的两位乘客受了伤。
• I rammed down the earth around the newly-planted tree. 我将新栽的树周围的土捣硬。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

7 spotted   

adj.有斑点的，斑纹的，弄污了的

参考例句：

• The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
• Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。

8 deployment   

n. 部署,展开

参考例句：

• He has inquired out the deployment of the enemy troops. 他已查出敌军的兵力部署情况。
• Quality function deployment (QFD) is a widely used customer-driven quality, design and manufacturing management tool. 质量功能展开(quality function deployment,QFD)是一个广泛应用的顾客需求驱动的设计、制造和质量管理工具。