We head to northwest Pakistan. A group of four terrorists targeted a university there yesterday.They killed at least nineteen people according to Pakistani officials before soldiers killed the four gunmen.Officials don't know for sure what organization the terrorists were with. A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, a muslim military group in the country, said the attack was revenge for military operations against the Pakistani Taliban,but another spokesman for the same group denounced the attack, saying it went against the Sharia or Islamic law. International analysts1 say it does look like the tactics of the Pakistani Taliban.
So who are the Pakistani Taliban, or TTP as they are known in Pakistan? For one, they are not the Afgan Taliban. They are separatists. Afgan Taliban focus principally on attacking international security forces, including US forces and driving them out of the country. Pakistani Taliban focused on attacking Pakistani government, bring it down and establishing Sharia law in the country. To that end they have been responsible for some of the most terrific terrorist attacks in Pakistan, attack on a market in 2009 that killed more than a hundred people and an attack on a church in 2013 that killed more than eighty people, the
assassination2 of the former Prime Minister as well as the shooting of the recent Nobel Prize winner. The Pakistani Taliban has also attacked Americans and American interests. In 2009 a suicide bombing that killed seven CIA officers in eastern Afganistan.In 2010,the failed bombing inside Time Square in New York traced back to the Pakistani Taliban. And following the
killing4 of
Bin3 Ladin by US forces in Pakistan, the TTP leader,the Pakistani Taliban leader called for attacks on Americans inside America and the US attacked back. Drone strikes inside Pakistan tribal areas 2009 and 2013 killed the leaders of the Pakistani Taliban
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analysts
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分析家,化验员( analyst的名词复数 ) |
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- City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
- I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。
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assassination
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n.暗杀;暗杀事件 |
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- The assassination of the president brought matters to a head.总统遭暗杀使事态到了严重关头。
- Lincoln's assassination in 1865 shocked the whole nation.1865年,林肯遇刺事件震惊全美国。
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bin
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n.箱柜;vt.放入箱内;[计算机] DOS文件名:二进制目标文件 |
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- 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。
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killing
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n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财 |
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- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
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