2007年VOA标准英语-US Military Reveals Detention of Senior Al-Qaid

By Al Pessin
27 April 2007

The U.S. government announced Friday that it captured a senior al-Qaida leader late last year and interrogated¹ him in CIA custody² until this week, when he was transferred to the Defense³ Department's Guantanamo detention⁴ center.  VOA's Al Pessin reports from the Pentagon.

Abdul Hadi al-Iraqi pictured in this image released by Rewards for Justice

The Defense Department and the CIA say the man is Abdul Hadi al-Iraqi, and they call him one of the al-Qaida terrorist network's most senior officials.  They will not say exactly when, where or how he was captured, but a U.S. intelligence official tells VOA the capture was late last year and that he has been held by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) since then.  The official says the capture was the result of work by several countries, but he would not say which ones.

The official, who spoke⁵ on condition of anonymity⁶, says the agency's detention and interrogation program has generated useful information before and that this case is no exception.  The official says the capture of al-Iraqi is a "significant victory," and he was handed over to the Defense Department, because the CIA believes it has gleaned⁷ all the information of immediate⁸ value that al-Iraqi has.  The official says the agency followed all U.S. government rules regarding the treatment of detainees during the interrogation. 

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman says Abdul Hadi al-Iraqi operated primarily in Pakistan and along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in recent years, and that he was captured when he was apparently⁹ in the process of taking on a new assignment.

"At the time of his capture, he was trying to return to his native country, Iraq, to manage al-Qaida's affairs and possibly focus on operations outside Iraq against western targets," he said.

The most notorious leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was killed by U.S. forces just a few months before al-Iraqi's capture.

Whitman says al-Iraqi was one of al-Qaida's "highest ranking and experienced senior operatives," and that he was involved in plots to assassinate¹⁰ Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and an unnamed United Nations official, as well as attacks launched from Pakistan against U.S. and coalition¹¹ forces in Afghanistan.

"He worked directly with the Taleban to determine responsibilities and lines of communication between Taleban and al-Qaida leaders in Afghanistan, specifically with regard to targeting of U.S. forces," he added.

Whitman also says al-Iraqi met with al-Qaida members in Iran shortly before his capture.  A Pentagon news release says al-Iraqi urged al-Qaida operatives in Iran to do more to help insurgents¹² in Iraq, and also to "cause problems" inside Iran.

"What's important here, I think, is that we've taken another bad individual that wants to do harm not only to coalition forces and the United States, but our allies around the world, off the streets," he noted¹³.

The Pentagon says Abdul Hadi al-Iraqi, 46, was born in Mosul, Iraq.  It says he was on al-Qaida's military committee and also on the 10-member advisory¹⁴ council working with al-Qaida leader Osama Bin¹⁵ Laden¹⁶ during the planning of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

Bryan Whitman says al-Iraqi will be treated the same as the nearly 400 other detainees at Guantanamo.  He says al-Iraqi will have a hearing to officially determine whether he is an "enemy combatant," which would make him eligible¹⁷ to be charged and tried under a new procedure approved by the U.S. Congress last year.  Whitman says he will also have access to representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross.  Detainees at Guantanamo are also interrogated, and officials say many of them provide useful information even years after their capture.

Al-Iraqi becomes the 15th man at Guantanamo that the U.S. government considers a high-value detainee.  The others were moved to the facility last September from secret CIA prisons abroad.  At that time, President Bush announced that the prisons were empty, but would remain available for future detainees.  The U.S. intelligence official who spoke to VOA on Friday says al-Iraqi was captured after that.

1 interrogated   

v.询问( interrogate的过去式和过去分词 )；审问；（在计算机或其他机器上）查询

参考例句：

• He was interrogated by the police for over 12 hours. 他被警察审问了12个多小时。
• Two suspects are now being interrogated in connection with the killing. 与杀人案有关的两名嫌疑犯正在接受审讯。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 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。

3 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

4 detention   

n.滞留，停留；拘留，扣留；(教育)留下

参考例句：

• He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
• He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。

5 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。

6 anonymity   

n.the condition of being anonymous

参考例句：

• Names of people in the book were changed to preserve anonymity. 为了姓名保密，书中的人用的都是化名。
• Our company promises to preserve the anonymity of all its clients. 我们公司承诺不公开客户的姓名。

7 gleaned   

v.一点点地收集（资料、事实）( glean的过去式和过去分词 )；（收割后）拾穗

参考例句：

• These figures have been gleaned from a number of studies. 这些数据是通过多次研究收集得来的。
• A valuable lesson may be gleaned from it by those who have eyes to see. 明眼人可从中记取宝贵的教训。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

8 immediate   

adj.立即的；直接的，最接近的；紧靠的

参考例句：

• His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
• We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。

9 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。

10 assassinate   

vt.暗杀，行刺，中伤

参考例句：

• The police exposed a criminal plot to assassinate the president.警方侦破了一个行刺总统的阴谋。
• A plot to assassinate the banker has been uncovered by the police.暗杀银行家的密谋被警方侦破了。

11 coalition   

n.结合体，同盟，结合，联合

参考例句：

• The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
• Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。

12 insurgents   

n.起义，暴动，造反( insurgent的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The regular troops of Baden joined the insurgents. 巴登的正规军参加到起义军方面来了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Against the Taliban and Iraqi insurgents, these problems are manageable. 要对付塔利班与伊拉克叛乱分子，这些问题还是可以把握住的。 来自互联网

13 noted   

adj.著名的，知名的

参考例句：

• The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
• Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。

14 advisory   

adj.劝告的，忠告的，顾问的，提供咨询

参考例句：

• I have worked in an advisory capacity with many hospitals.我曾在多家医院做过顾问工作。
• He was appointed to the advisory committee last month.他上个月获任命为顾问委员会委员。

15 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。

16 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。

17 eligible   

adj.有条件被选中的；(尤指婚姻等)合适(意)的

参考例句：

• He is an eligible young man.他是一个合格的年轻人。
• Helen married an eligible bachelor.海伦嫁给了一个中意的单身汉。