大学英语综合教程 第四册 Unit 7B

[04:50.48]says Jack Devine,a former CIA associate deputy operations director
[04:57.04]"If we seal our ports ,they're going to come across the Rio Grande,
[05:01.95]The truth is that[with new homeland security]we'll improve defensived by maybe7percent or10percent.
[05:10.33]The best hope we have is to go after and hestroy the terrorist organization
[05:16.03]What was Padilla's real plan,and how far along was it?Perhaps the endless interrogation he is now undergoing will tell
[05:26.37]What American officials at O'Hare didn't do-but were tempted to-was to tail Padilla
[05:33.45]once he landed to see whom he was meeting.Nervous after a torrent of criticism over other lost suspects
[05:42.65]-principally the hijackers of September 11-theFBI decided he was too dangerous to take a chance with.
[05:50.41]As a result,U.S.officials say,they simply do not know whether Padilla was a lone wolf,
[05:57.41]or had a network of confederates in America.And if there is a nationwide manhunt for any accomplices,that,too,
[06:06.79]is taking place off the radarAll of which points up themain problem withconducting a secret warit's difficult to well who's winning
[06:16.76]Sometimes not even the Feds know what the tally is-
[06:21.05]which doesn't bode well for the new spirit of intelligence cooperation in Washington.Just before Padilla's flight,
[06:30.03]some American intelligence officials back in Washington became alarmed
[06:35.91]when they noticed that an abnormally large number of Swiss and U.S.passengers
[06:41.24]had booked last-minute passage on the same plane
[06:45.71]it took a while for word to get through to the analysts
[06:49.21]that the last-minute passengers were the Swiss and FBI teams tailing the suspect.
[06:55.43]Even the White House,Pentagon and Justice Department could't seem to agree on what kind of threat Padilla posed.
[07:04.18]When Attorney Genral John Ashcroft announced portentoulsy that Padilla was plotting a radiological bomb attack,
[07:13.11]White House officials scoffed privatelyDeputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz countered that the plotwas mostly still talk
[07:23.74]There are other worrisome signs that terror could prove more slippery even than U.S.tactics to contain it.
[07:31.47]Late last week FBI agents were runing down a warning from Canadian intelligence that
[07:38.81]Qaeda operatives might be targeting the G8summit in Canada later this month.Last Friday,at the U.S.Consulate in Karachi
[07:49.81]the fortifed building's guardhouse was struck by a car bomb that killed at least 11 people.
[07:57.02]The attack was strikingly similar to a suspected Qaeda strike on a Pakistani naval bus in May,which slaughtered 14 people
[08:06.95]including11French naval technicians.The surving suspects slipped away.Despite a crackdown in Pakistan,
[08:17.03]its cities remain hosts and seedbeds for radicals.And while terrorists no longer have a haven in Afghanistan,
[08:25.34]they're now forming what one intellgence official calls "virtual training camps"no the Web.For the last two months,
[08:34.01]individuals in a US based Internet chat room have been frantically conversing,
[08:40.12]clearly wanting and planning to attack the United Sates
[08:44.83]law-enforcement authorities say.At least one chat-room participant was asked if he could speak Spanish,
[08:53.32]since terrorist recruiters are looking for Arabs or other Muslims who look Latin"and speak Spanish to infiltrate the U.S
[09:02.90](4)All we can be sure of today is that they have one fewer recruit in Jose Padilla.