Read the text below

Reading

II. Answer the following questions using the lexical units from the exercise above

Make up your own questions using these lexical units, ask the group-mates. Use the Russian equivalents in the sentences of your own, ask the group-mates to translate them into English.

I. Study the following word-combinations; translate them into Russian, using the box below

Talking Point

Glossary

1. to suspend habeas corpus

2. to curtail civil liberties

3. a “sneak and peek” provision

4. a warrant

5. myriad

6. surveillance cameras

7. a dossier

8. to be reticent about

9. detentions

10. to filter into the press

11. insidious

12. to slip aboard

1. to be involved in …

- bombing

- acts of terrorism

- sponsoring acts of terrorism

- planning terrorist acts

- execution (commission) of terrorist acts

- assassination attempt

- the counterfeiting of money

- drug trafficking

Участвовать в террористических актах, планировании терактов, совершении терактов, фальшивомонетчестве, торговле наркотиками, спонсировании террористических актов, осуществлении взрывов, покушении на политического деятеля.

2. … terrorist acts/ acts of terrorism

- to plan

- to suppress

- to prepare

- to finance

- to commit/ to carry out/ to perpetrate

- to attempt

- to incite/ to instigate

- to sponsor

- to plot

- to participate in/ to be involved in

- to be responsible for

- to prevent

Готовить, совершать, финансировать, пытаться совершить, провоцировать, спонсировать, планировать, нести ответственность, пресекать, предотвращать, участвовать, замышлять террористические акты.

1. What terrorist organizations are currently operating in the world? Where?

2. Which organizations are the most dangerous? Why?

3. What activities are they involved in?

4. Why is there no national counter-terrorism strategy?

5. What aspects should be taken into account to create an effective counter-terrorism strategy?

Part 2. Informative Reading «Al Qaida around the Globe»

Al Qa`ida Around the Globe

Authorities believe that Al Qa`ida worked on its own and with the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and other alleged terrorist organizations in at least 60 countries, including the United States.

Al Qa`ida was established by Usama Bin Laden in the late 1980s to bring together Arabs who fought in Afghanistan against the Soviet invasion. It helped finance, recruit, transport, and train Sunni Islamic extremists for the Afghan resistance. The current goal of the organization is to establish a pan-Islamic Caliphate throughout the world by working with allied Islamic extremist groups to overthrow regimes it considers “non-Islamic” and expelling Westerners and non-Muslims from Muslim countries. It issued statement under the banner of “The World Islamic Front for Jihad against the Jews and Crusaders” in February 1998, saying it was the duty of all Muslims to kill U.S. citizens – civilian or military – and their allies everywhere.

It plotted terrorist attacks against U.S. and Israeli tourists visiting Jordan for millennial celebrations. It conducted the bombings in August 1998 of the U.S. Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, that killed at least 301 persons and injured more than 5000 others. Al Qa`ida claims to have shot down U.S. helicopters and killed U.S. servicemen in Somalia in 1993 and to have conducted three bombings that targeted U.S. troops in Aden, Yemen, in December 1992. The following plans were not carried out: the assassination of Pope John Paul II during his visit to Manila in late 1994, simultaneous bombings of the U.S. and Israeli Embassies in Manila and other Asian capitals in late 1994, the bombings of a dozen U.S. trans-Pacific fights in 1995, and assassination of President Clinton during a visit to the Philippines in early 1995. The organization continues to train, finance and provide logistic support to terrorist groups in support of these goals.

It may have several hundred to several thousand members and serves as a focal point or umbrella organization for a worldwide network that includes many Sunni Islamic extremist groups such as al-Jihad, some members of al-Gama’at al-Islamiyya, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and the Harakat ul-Mujahidin.

Al Qa`ida has a worldwide reach, has cells in a number of countries, and is strengthened through its ties to Sunni extremist networks. Bin Ladin and his key lieutenants reside in Afghanistan, where the group maintains terrorist training camps there.

Bin Ladin, son of a billionaire Saudi family, is said to have inherited approximately 300 mln dollars that he uses to finance the group. Al Qa`ida also maintains moneymaking front organizations, solicits donations from like-minded supporters, and illicitly siphons funds from donations to Muslim charitable organizations.

(Kurt M.Campbell, Michelle A.Fournoy “To Prevail”)

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