欧洲－搜捕伦敦爆炸案嫌疑犯

Major Hunt on for London Bombers¹

搜捕伦敦爆炸案嫌疑犯

 

As police barked out orders to passersby², teams of armed officers conducted raids across London in the search for three men suspected of planting bombs that failed to explode on subway trains and a bus on July 21.

 

Police say there have been a number of arrests in the operations in London's Kensington and Noting Hill neighborhoods, and at the Liverpool Street train station in the city's financial district.

 

London media say one or more of the three would-be bombers could be among those arrested, but there was no official police confirmation³ of those reports.

 

In an earlier interview on British television, London police commissioner⁴ Ian Blair said he was sure police would capture the suspects.

 

Ian Blair: I'm confident that we will arrest the people responsible for the attempted bombings on the Tube and the bus last week. I'm confident about that.  How soon it will be, I don't know.  But I'm quite sure that the net is closing. I do think the investigation⁵ has proceeded at extraordinary speed and some extraordinary achievements have been made in it.

 

Police already have one of the four suspects in custody⁶.  The man, 24-year-old Yasin Hassan Omar, was captured in Birmingham on Wednesday.  He is being questioned at a central London police station.

 

In another development, the British government says it wants consular⁷ access to a British national detained in Zambia who reportedly has connections to the July 7 London bombings that killed 56 people.

 

U.S. media outlets⁸ say the man, 31 years old Haroon Rashid Aswat, had placed some 20 phone calls to some of the four British Muslim men who authorities say set off the July 7 bombs in a series of suicide attacks.

 

Haroon Rashid Aswat is also wanted by U.S. authorities in connection with alleged⁹ efforts to establish a terrorist camp in the northwestern state of Oregon.

 

British authorities have not confirmed or denied the U.S. news reports, which are described as being based on information provided by U.S. officials familiar with the investigation.

 

Michael George, VOA news, London.

 

注释：

bark out 大声喊出

confirmation [7kCnfE5meiFEn] n. 证实，确认

commissioner [kE5miFEnE] n. 委员，专员

in custody 被拘留

consular [5kCnsjulE] adj. 领事的

Zambia [5zAmbiE] n. 赞比亚

1 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》

2 passersby   

n. 过路人(行人,经过者)

参考例句：

• He had terrorized Oxford Street,where passersby had seen only his footprints. 他曾使牛津街笼罩了一片恐怖气氛，因为那儿的行人只能看到他的脚印，看不到他的人。 来自英汉 - 翻译样例 - 文学
• A person is marceling on a street, watching passersby passing. 街边烫发者打量着匆匆行人。

3 confirmation   

n.证实，确认，批准

参考例句：

• We are waiting for confirmation of the news.我们正在等待证实那个消息。
• We need confirmation in writing before we can send your order out.给你们发送订购的货物之前，我们需要书面确认。

4 commissioner   

n.（政府厅、局、处等部门）专员，长官，委员

参考例句：

• The commissioner has issued a warrant for her arrest.专员发出了对她的逮捕令。
• He was tapped for police commissioner.他被任命为警务处长。

5 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

6 custody   

n.监护，照看，羁押，拘留

参考例句：

• He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
• He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。

7 consular   

a.领事的

参考例句：

• He has rounded out twenty years in the consular service. 他在领事馆工作已整整20年了。
• Consular invoices are declarations made at the consulate of the importing country. 领事发票是进口国领事馆签发的一种申报书。

8 outlets   

n.出口( outlet的名词复数 )；经销店；插座；廉价经销店

参考例句：

• The dumping of foreign cotton blocked outlets for locally grown cotton. 外国棉花的倾销阻滞了当地生产的棉花的销路。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• They must find outlets for their products. 他们必须为自己的产品寻找出路。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

9 alleged   

a.被指控的，嫌疑的

参考例句：

• It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
• alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为