VOA标准英语2012--Expert: Jihadists Joining With Syrian Rebels
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(八月)
Expert: Jihadists Joining With Syrian Rebels
Free Syria Army fighters on the outskirts 1 of Aleppo earlier this month. As Western and Gulf 2 powers step up their aid for the Syrian opposition 3, concerns are growing that Islamist militant 4 groups are infiltrating 5 the conflict.
Shiraz Maher of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalization, at Kings College, London, specializes in monitoring extremist groups. He took VOA through some of the videos and websites he'd tracked down online. This one purports 6 to show bombing operations carried out by al Qaida in Syria.
"Certainly groups that are Islamist in orientation 7, whether they're affiliated 8 with al-Qaida or not, are now operating on the ground there. Videos like this, of course are very difficult to independently verify but we can cross reference them with other things that we're seeing. These videos are now surfacing through known al-Qaida web forums 9 that we've been following for the best part of a decade now," he said.
Iconography associated with Islamist militant groups is becoming increasingly common in videos purportedly 10 shot in Syria.
"They say it's al-Qaida, it's certainly Islamist fighters within Syria. You can tell that from the flags that they're carrying and also from some of the iconography put onto the video. What they're doing is that they're transporting rugs here and blankets into a rebel-held area. This is typical of the way that Islamist groups in the region operate, in order to win over support from local populations," he said.
In recent weeks, there have been several reports in the Arab press of foreign fighters going to join the Free Syria Army. Maher says it is impossible to know for sure the numbers of foreigners among the FSA ranks, but they are certainly present.
"Saudis for example going, Egyptians, Libyans, Jordanians. And of course that would tend to make sense. These are, particularly in the Gulf states, regimes that have expressed opposition to Bashar al Assad. Many of the clerics in those countries have declared Bashar al Assad an apostate," he said.
Maher says that extremist groups were slow to react to the Syrian uprising, but in recent months, there are increasing signs that militant Islamist networks are looking to exploit the conflict.
- Our car broke down on the outskirts of the city.我们的汽车在市郊出了故障。
- They mostly live on the outskirts of a town.他们大多住在近郊。
- The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
- There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
- The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
- The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
- Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
- He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。
- Be vigilant against the danger of enemy agents infiltrating the government and boring from within. 要警惕敌特渗入政府内部进行暗中破坏。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- The metastatic melanoma is seen here to be infiltrating into the myocardium. 图示转移性黑色素瘤浸润到心肌。 来自互联网
- She purports to represent the whole group. 她自称代表整个团体。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The document purports to be official but is really private. 那份文件据称是官方的，但实际上是私人的。 来自辞典例句
- Children need some orientation when they go to school.小孩子上学时需要适应。
- The traveller found his orientation with the aid of a good map.旅行者借助一幅好地图得知自己的方向。
- The hospital is affiliated with the local university. 这家医院附属于当地大学。
- All affiliated members can vote. 所有隶属成员都有投票权。
- A few of the forums were being closely monitored by the administrators. 有些论坛被管理员严密监控。
- It can cast a dark cloud over these forums. 它将是的论坛上空布满乌云。
- This is purportedly the oldest tree in the world. 据称这是世界上最古老的一棵树。 来自互联网
- Mayor Oh Se-Hoon launched the campaign last year, purportedly to improve efficiency. 据悉，首尔市市长吴世勋于去年提出了这项旨在提高工作效率的计划。 来自互联网