大学英语综合教程 第四册 Unit 7B

[00:00.00]In responding to the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington,
[00:04.88]America has entered into a new type of war,one fought in the shadows.
[00:10.97]JOURNEY INTO THE SHADOWS        by Mark Hosenball,Michael Hirsh and Ron Moreau
[00:18.05]It was the usual transatantic flight:nine hours of fidgeting to get the pillow right,
[00:24.01]first-run movies flickering mutely on small screens,
[00:28.76]an indigestible flow of starchy food and drinks.Bound for Chicago from Zurich on the morning of May8,
[00:37.54]the passengers of Swiss International Air Lines Flight8 saw nothing amiss.Certainly they didn't know
[00:45.84]they were on the front lines of a global war being waged under their drooping eyes.But the crew knew it.
[00:53.68]They had been warned that a major terrorist suspect was scheduled to fly on the plane.
[00:58.96]And a scattering of very wakeful men
[01:02.64]in nearby seats knew it:a small squad of FBI agents and a separate team of Swiss Special Forces commandos
[01:11.84]all carefully positioned around around the suspect,all warily watching his every move.For nine hours.
[01:19.44]This airborne stakeout was directed at one Jose Padilla,otherwise known as Abdullah al-Muhajir,
[01:27.82]a Brooklyn-born street thug now dientified by investigators as a would-be Qaeda terrorist.
[01:36.16]After moving mysteriously for a mounth from Karachi to Zurich to Cairo and back to Zurich
[01:43.24]the kind of city-hopping we've come to asociate with a Qaeda plot-Padilla was headed back to his homeland to cause havoc
[01:52.69]or possibly just scout out a good target,U.S.authorities believe.Padilla was one of the band of foreign terrists who
[02:03.01]as the Taliban fell late last year,had escaped into Pakistan with Abu Zubaydah,a senior deputy to Osama bin Laden.
[02:13.54]Tipped off by Zubaydah-who was arrested in Padistan in late March and has since been relentlessly interrogated
[02:22.08]in a top-secret location-authorities had recently connected a fresh pair of very alarming dots:
[02:30.33]they had pieced Padilla's name together with vague allegations from Zubaydah about a "dirty bomb"plot,
[02:38.75]possibly aimed at Washington,D.C.Even so,the Feds were lucky.Though Padilla came to their attention back in March
[02:47.00]U.S.intelligence officials say they did not realize how dangerous he was until weeks after he took off on his trip
[02:55.65]and for more than a month they had no firm fix on his whereabouts.
[03:00.09]Only a last-minute search of itineraries of thousands of passengers
[03:05.76]known to be traveling toward the United Sates had turned up Padilla's name-less than 48hours before his flight to Chicago
[03:15.19]FBI bomb and hazardous-materials specialists had been deployed to O'Hare to await Padilla's arrival.
[03:23.28]But the landing at O'Hare International Aiport at 1:30p.m.was as uneventful as the plane ride.Once in,
[03:33.19]Padilla was whisked away to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan,
[03:39.17]the high-rise federal prison a few blocks from Ground Zero.
[03:44.81]WAR IN THE SHADOWS
[03:48.05]The story of Padilla's quiet capture is the best evidence yet that the war against A1Qaeda has entered an entirely new phase
[03:57.19]If the war began dramatically,with planes crashing into buildings and the Taliban fleeing Afghanistan,
[04:04.90]it is now mostly underground-waged by terroists,spooks,paramilitaries and G-men.
[04:12.29]We must take the battle to the enemy,disrupt his plans and confront the worst threats before they emerge,
[04:20.55]"Bush told West Point graduates a few weeks ago.Many commentators thought
[04:27.65]he was talding about pre-emptively striking future foes like IraqBut Bush was also putting a new emphasis on covert operations
[04:37.29]which has raised fresh concerns about civil liberties.How far is America veering toward police state tactics?
[04:46.43]We shouldn't deceive ourselves .This is not a defensive game,