伊拉克总理Nouri al-Maliki说,几天前发生在巴格达防御“绿区”的小型爆炸事件可能要试图暗杀他。他说,初步掌握的情报表明,他就是袭击的目标。BBC驻巴格达记者Karin Tobbe说,这次失败的袭击对当局来说时机很不好。
Prime Minister Maliki tried very hard to downplay the significance of this attack, and he assured many times that shouldn't be considered as a sign of weakness of the security forces, but it's definitely embarrassing for Prime Minister Maliki and for the Iraqi authorities who have been saying that the country is under full control of the security forces.
总理Maliki一心想将这次袭击淡化处理,他多次表示,这并不意味着安全部队力量薄弱。但对总理Maliki和伊拉克当局来说,这肯定很尴尬,因为他们一直宣称本国在安全部队的严密保护下。
The Ministry of Defence in Britain has confirmed that a British soldier has been dismissed and jailed for stabbing a 10-year-old Afghan boy.
英国国防部长称,一名英国士兵因刺杀一名10岁阿富汗男孩被开除。
In a previously unpublicised conviction, the soldier, Daniel Crook, was court-martialled and jailed for 18 months. The court-martial, which sat last June, heard that Crook had drunk a considerable amount of vodka the night before the unprovoked attack in Helmand province.
士兵Daniel Crook之前已被军事法庭定罪,判刑监禁18个月。军事法庭去年6月听审了此案,Crook在赫尔曼德省无缘无故犯下袭击案的前一晚,喝了大量伏特加。