2007年VOA标准英语-Terror Network Targeting Indonesian Police

By Chad Bouchard
Jakarta
16 April 2007

Indonesian police say a regional terror network has set up a new hit squad¹ with a list of targets including police, judges and prosecutors³. Chad Bouchard reports from Jakarta.

During a police raid in central Java, Indonesia's anti-terrorism squad found evidence that Jemaah Islamiyah, also called JI, had created a new group of assassins bent⁴ on attacking individuals seen as enemies of their cause.

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Members of the Indonesian Police Anti-Terror Department stand near evidence confiscated in last month's raids on a terrorist hideout, in Yogyakarta, central Java, Indonesia, 03 Apr 2007

Indonesia's top anti-terrorism office confirms that seven suspected members of the network, which some investigators⁶ have linked to al-Qaida, were arrested and another killed as a result of a series of raids last month.

Police also confiscated a large cache of weapons including M-16 rifles.

Sidney Jones is director of the Jakarta office of the policy research organization the International Crisis Group. She says police discovered a diagram outlining four groups of about four people each under the leadership of suspected JI leader, Abu Dujana.

"What they found in Central Java was a diagram of something that was called a "sariyah", which is usually used in Middle Eastern jihadist organizations to mean "brigade". And they seem to have in their sights this prosecutor² from Semarang so it seems as though it were a special-forces unit," said Jones. "But the fact that there's been more of a focus on Indonesian officials for some time within JI is clear. They've got a particular dislike of the police because police arrest their comrades."

Police say Jemaah Islamiyah has been weakened by a series of raids and crackdowns over the last few years.

Terrorism experts indicate the group is divided by an ideological⁷ rift⁸ between those who favor western targets and a majority of members who are concerned only with local conflicts within Indonesia.

The group has been blamed for the 2002 bombings in Bali that killed two hundred and two people.

A former JI leader and alleged⁹ mastermind of the attack, Malaysian Noordin Mohamad Top, is on the run from police.

Sidney Jones says the discovery of a new JI wing may indicate the organization is divided.

"It certainly signifies the fact that JI is alive if not well, but it could be that a unit of JI has decided¹⁰ on attacks to prove that they're still there, so it could be a sign of weakness," she said. "On the other hand we don't know specifically who Abu Dujana reports to - it's clear he's not calling the shots."

Jemmah Islamiyah was founded in 1993, and boasts about 1,000 members. The group is said to want to establish an Islamic state across Southeast Asia.

1 squad   

n.班，小队，小团体；vt.把…编成班或小组

参考例句：

• The squad leader ordered the men to mark time.班长命令战士们原地踏步。
• A squad is the smallest unit in an army.班是军队的最小构成单位。

2 prosecutor   

n.起诉人；检察官，公诉人

参考例句：

• The defender argued down the prosecutor at the court.辩护人在法庭上驳倒了起诉人。
• The prosecutor would tear your testimony to pieces.检查官会把你的证言驳得体无完肤。

3 prosecutors   

检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 )； 告发人； 起诉人； 公诉人

参考例句：

• In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
• You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。

4 bent   

n.爱好，癖好；adj.弯的；决心的，一心的

参考例句：

• He was fully bent upon the project.他一心扑在这项计划上。
• We bent over backward to help them.我们尽了最大努力帮助他们。

5 confiscated   

没收，充公( confiscate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Their land was confiscated after the war. 他们的土地在战后被没收。
• The customs officer confiscated the smuggled goods. 海关官员没收了走私品。

6 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》

7 ideological   

a.意识形态的

参考例句：

• He always tries to link his study with his ideological problems. 他总是把学习和自己的思想问题联系起来。
• He helped me enormously with advice on how to do ideological work. 他告诉我怎样做思想工作，对我有很大帮助。

8 rift   

n.裂口，隙缝，切口；v.裂开，割开，渗入

参考例句：

• He was anxious to mend the rift between the two men.他急于弥合这两个人之间的裂痕。
• The sun appeared through a rift in the clouds.太阳从云层间隙中冒出来。

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

10 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。