VOA标准英语2010年-London Bombing Anniversary - Five Year

Three British citizens have been convicted of plotting suicide attacks on airliners¹ flying between Britain and the United States. They were convicted days after London marked the fifth anniversary of the July 2005 bombings. Fifty-two people died when British-born suicide bombers³ struck the city's transport system. The government is warning that the threat of an attack remains⁴ 'severe.' The focus is increasingly on so-called home-grown terrorists.

While she was a student at a British University, Hadiya Masieh was recruited by radicals⁵ from the Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir. 

The British government once tried to ban the organization, saying it was extremist. Masieh explains her story.

"I was a teenager," said Hadiya Masieh. "My emotions were quite heightened. I could really sense a lot of the injustices⁶ in the world, and there was a group that was addressing some of these issues in a way that I'd never heard or seen before."

Since university, Masieh's life has turned full circle.

She now works for the Three Faiths Forum⁷, an interfaith group, and campaigns  against Islamic extremism.

The London terror attacks of July 7, 2005, called 7/7 here, is one of the reasons.

"I believe that 7/7 was a wake-up call, looking at these atrocities⁸ happening in my back yard," she said.

 

London has just marked the fifth anniversary of the attacks. Fifty-two people were killed when four suicide bombers attacked the capital's transportation network. The shock was compounded when it emerged that the attackers, captured here on surveillance cameras before the attacks,  were British Muslims - so-called "home-grown" terrorists.

M.J. Gohel of the Asia-Pacific Foundation says the threat of another similar attack is severe.

"The last estimate made by British intelligence estimated that there are something like 2,000 suspects in this country that need to be looked at carefully all the time," said M.J. Gohel. "There are some 30 high priority terrorist plots ongoing⁹, and there are some 200 terrorist networks. Now that is quite frightening in a small country the size of the UK."

A new report from the Centre for Social Cohesion¹⁰, another research group, claims that over the last decade, more than two-thirds of criminals convicted of Islamist terror-related offenses¹¹ were British citizens.

Robin¹² Simcox wrote the report. He says the findings were a surprise.

"A lot of them passed through higher education, a lot of them had jobs, and a lot of them actually weren't connected to al-Qaida whatsoever," said Robin Simcox. "And we often tend to be very al-Qaida focused."

A few days after the 7/7 anniversary, three British citizens from London were convicted of planning suicide attacks on airliners flying between Britain and the United States.

Theirs was not the only plot.

Since 2005, security services have succeeded in thwarting¹³ a number of terror plots in Britain, says M.J. Gohel.

"Even though to a large extent an individual may be home-grown, there is a foreign dimension," he said. "The ideology¹⁴ is very much that of Osama Bin² Laden¹⁵, Al Qaida and the global jihad movement."

The daily fear that London commuters faced following the attacks has now passed. But the security services warn that so-called homegrown terrorists, born and raised in Britain, are still plotting attacks on their own people.

 

1 airliners   

n.客机，班机( airliner的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The fog grounded the airliners. 大雾迫使班机停飞。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• They placed very stable and accurate atomic clocks on regularly scheduled jet airliners. 他们将非常稳定、准确的原子钟装在定期飞行的喷气式班机上。 来自辞典例句

2 bin   

n.箱柜；vt.放入箱内；[计算机] DOS文件名:二进制目标文件

参考例句：

• He emptied several bags of rice into a bin.他把几袋米倒进大箱里。
• He threw the empty bottles in the bin.他把空瓶子扔进垃圾箱。

3 bombers   

n.轰炸机( bomber的名词复数 )；投弹手；安非他明胶囊；大麻叶香烟

参考例句：

• Enemy bombers carried out a blitz on the city. 敌军轰炸机对这座城市进行了突袭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Royal Airforce sill remained dangerously short of bombers. 英国皇家空军仍未脱离极为缺乏轰炸机的危境。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

5 radicals   

n.激进分子( radical的名词复数 )；根基；基本原理；[数学]根数

参考例句：

• Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals. 一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The worry is that the radicals will grow more intransigent. 现在人们担忧激进分子会变得更加不妥协。 来自辞典例句

6 injustices   

不公平( injustice的名词复数 )； 非正义； 待…不公正； 冤枉

参考例句：

• One who committed many injustices is doomed to failure. 多行不义必自毙。
• He felt confident that his injustices would be righted. 他相信他的冤屈会受到昭雪的。

7 forum   

n.论坛，讨论会

参考例句：

• They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
• The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。

8 atrocities   

n.邪恶，暴行( atrocity的名词复数 )；滔天大罪

参考例句：

• They were guilty of the most barbarous and inhuman atrocities. 他们犯有最野蛮、最灭绝人性的残暴罪行。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The enemy's atrocities made one boil with anger. 敌人的暴行令人发指。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

9 ongoing   

adj.进行中的，前进的

参考例句：

• The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
• The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。

10 cohesion   

n.团结，凝结力

参考例句：

• I had to bring some cohesion into the company.我得使整个公司恢复凝聚力。
• The power of culture is deeply rooted in the vitality,creativity and cohesion of a nation. 文化的力量，深深熔铸在民族的生命力、创造力和凝聚力之中。

11 offenses   

n.进攻( offense的名词复数 )；（球队的）前锋；进攻方法；攻势

参考例句：

• It's wrong of you to take the child to task for such trifling offenses. 因这类小毛病责备那孩子是你的不对。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Thus, Congress cannot remove an executive official except for impeachable offenses. 因此，除非有可弹劾的行为，否则国会不能罢免行政官员。 来自英汉非文学 - 行政法

12 robin   

n.知更鸟，红襟鸟

参考例句：

• The robin is the messenger of spring.知更鸟是报春的使者。
• We knew spring was coming as we had seen a robin.我们看见了一只知更鸟，知道春天要到了。

13 thwarting   

阻挠( thwart的现在分词 )； 使受挫折； 挫败； 横过

参考例句：

• The republicans are trying to embarrass the president by thwarting his economic program. 共和党人企图通过阻挠总统的经济计划使其难堪。
• There were too many men resisting his authority thwarting him. 下边对他这个长官心怀不服的，故意作对的，可多着哩。

14 ideology   

n.意识形态，(政治或社会的)思想意识

参考例句：

• The ideology has great influence in the world.这种思想体系在世界上有很大的影响。
• The ideal is to strike a medium between ideology and inspiration.我的理想是在意识思想和灵感鼓动之间找到一个折衷。

15 laden   

adj.装满了的；充满了的；负了重担的；苦恼的

参考例句：

• He is laden with heavy responsibility.他肩负重任。
• Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat.将满载货物的船拖过沙丘是一件了不起的事。