美国有线新闻 CNN 2012-09-24

 I’m Anderson Cooper, welcome to the podcast. Exclusive reporting what American foreign ambassadors knew about the danger he was facing in Libya, also there were ridiculous. Let’s get started.

 

 

We begin tonight with breaking news. Reporting you’ll see only right here. Today a hearse bore the body of a Navy Seal Glenn Doherty passed his child at home, just outside Boston. Tonight 360 has obtained exclusive new details about the security climate leading up to his murder and the murder of three others last week, including in Libya, including the American ambassador there Christopher Stevens. 

 

 

360 has learned exclusive the concerns that the ambassador had, the threat he foresaw and the signal he gave to at least one person we know about, about what he was seeing. Today some in the administration in closely conceding what many observers already suspected that the killings¹, though they happened during a wave of protests over that anti-Muslim YouTube video, were not committed just by protesters. Listen to the administration’s National Counterterrorism Center director today at a Senate Homeland Security hearing. 

 

“And I would say yes, they were killed in the course of a terrorist attack on our embassy.” 

 

Mr. Olsen went on say that investigators² lacked specific intelligence concerning, in his words, significant advanced planning coordination³. He said they are looking to connections to al-Qaeda and local al-Qaeda affiliates⁴. Now you are looking at the scene, just outside the consulate⁵ in Benghazi as a pro-American crowd tried to rush in Ambassador Stevens who is wounded still alive to the hospital. Tonight, as we said, 360 has obtained exclusive information about the climate that led up to all of this. A source familiar with Ambassador Stevens thinking says that in the months before his death, he talked about being worried about what he called the never ending security threats specifically in Benghazi. The source telling us that the ambassador specifically mentioned the rise in Islamic extremism, the growing al-Qaeda presence in Libya, and said he was on an al-Qaeda hit list. In addition, our source tells us he e-mailed a journalist in the wake of the bombing near the consulate in June. He wrote, and I quote, Maybe you should head east to Benghazi to check out the situation there which appears to be heating up.

 

What we don’t yet know is why? Given all that ambassador Stevens thought, why he traveled with such an apparently⁶ light security detail? Why he was allowed to? Did he want it that way despite the risk or did his warnings go unheeded, and that he and his people died because of it? At this point we simply don’t know. Senator John McCain supported President Obama’s action to oust⁷ Muammar Gaddafi. He’s also criticized some of the steps taken since then. And is sharply skeptical⁸ of the administration’s account so far of what happened in Benghazi to the ambassador and the three others. I spoke⁹ to Senator McCain earlier today.

1 killings   

谋杀( killing的名词复数 )； 突然发大财，暴发

参考例句：

• His statement was seen as an allusion to the recent drug-related killings. 他的声明被视为暗指最近与毒品有关的多起凶杀案。
• The government issued a statement condemning the killings. 政府发表声明谴责这些凶杀事件。

2 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 coordination   

n.协调，协作

参考例句：

• Gymnastics is a sport that requires a considerable level of coordination.体操是一项需要高协调性的运动。
• The perfect coordination of the dancers and singers added a rhythmic charm to the performance.舞蹈演员和歌手们配合得很好，使演出更具魅力。

4 affiliates   

附属企业( affiliate的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• She affiliates with an academic society. 她是某学术团体的成员。
• For example, these security affiliates participated in the floating of 19,000,000,000 of issues in 1927. 例如，这些证券发行机构在1927年的流通证券中，就提供了一百九十亿美元的证券。

5 consulate   

n.领事馆

参考例句：

• The Spanish consulate is the large white building opposite the bank.西班牙领事馆是银行对面的那栋高大的白色建筑物。
• The American consulate was a magnificent edifice in the centre of Bordeaux.美国领事馆是位于波尔多市中心的一座宏伟的大厦。

6 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

7 oust   

vt.剥夺，取代，驱逐

参考例句：

• The committee wanted to oust him from the union.委员会想把他从工会中驱逐出去。
• The leaders have been ousted from power by nationalists.这些领导人被民族主义者赶下了台。

8 skeptical   

adj.怀疑的，多疑的

参考例句：

• Others here are more skeptical about the chances for justice being done.这里的其他人更为怀疑正义能否得到伸张。
• Her look was skeptical and resigned.她的表情是将信将疑而又无可奈何。

9 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。