2006年VOA标准英语-Egypt Says Terror Group Broken Up

By Challiss McDonough
Cairo
19 April 2006

Egyptian authorities say they have smashed a terrorist group that was planning attacks in and near the capital.

The Interior Ministry¹ says the secretive organization called itself the Victorious² Sect³, and its targets included tourist sites, religious leaders, and a natural gas pipeline⁴.

A ministry spokesman, Major General Abdel-Karim, told VOA that all 22 members of the group have been arrested.

He says, this group was planning and organizing to conduct a number of terrorist operations, attacking some economic and tourist targets in greater Cairo. They were also targeting some religious figures, both Muslim and Christian⁵, to create a split in Egyptian society.

The ministry says the secretive organization used code names and was led by a 26-year-old student named Ahmed Mohamed Ali Gabr, also known as Abu Musab. The ministry says his second-in-command is a preacher.

The general says the men used the Internet to research how to make explosives and poisons. He did not say whether they were successful in actually making them.

The interior ministry says the group was trying to buy a plot of land to use as a training base in a rural area outside Cairo. They also allegedly made contact with what the ministry calls foreign elements for help, and possibly for sending members abroad.

Major General Hamdi Abdel-Karim said the group's foreign contacts are still under investigation⁶.

The Interior Ministry statement called the group's ideology⁷ deviant, extremist ideas far from true Islam.

Egypt has suffered a number of terrorist attacks in recent years, including the multiple car bombings last year in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, where at least 67 people were killed. Two smaller bombings in Cairo in 2005 killed four people.

1 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

2 victorious   

adj.胜利的，得胜的

参考例句：

• We are certain to be victorious.我们定会胜利。
• The victorious army returned in triumph.获胜的部队凯旋而归。

3 sect   

n.派别，宗教，学派，派系

参考例句：

• When he was sixteen he joined a religious sect.他16岁的时候加入了一个宗教教派。
• Each religious sect in the town had its own church.该城每一个宗教教派都有自己的教堂。

4 pipeline   

n.管道，管线

参考例句：

• The pipeline supplies Jordan with 15 per cent of its crude oil.该管道供给约旦15%的原油。
• A single pipeline serves all the houses with water.一条单管路给所有的房子供水。

5 Christian   

adj.基督教徒的；n.基督教徒

参考例句：

• They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
• His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。

6 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。

7 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。