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By Al Pessin
San Salvador
02 October 2007

U.S. Defense 1 Secretary Robert Gates says he expects to order several steps to improve the supervision 2 of security contractors 3 working for the U.S. military in Iraq. VOA's Al Pessin reports from San Salvador, where the secretary spoke 4 during a visit on Tuesday.


Secretary Gates said he read a report early Tuesday from a five-member team he sent to Iraq last week to assess the use and supervision of security contractors. The secretary ordered the review two weeks ago after contractors from the Blackwater security company working for the State Department were accused of killing 5 at least 11 Iraqi civilians 6 during a shootout in Baghdad.


"The report makes a number of recommendations on how we can strengthen our oversight 7 of contractors working for the Department of Defense in Iraq," said Robert Gates.


The secretary did not provide details of the group's recommendations, and said he had not had a chance to discuss them with other senior officials. But he indicated he would like to make the changes the panel recommended.


"The recommendations from the group look very reasonable to me, and I anticipate that we will move forward toward trying to implement 8 them," he said.


Secretary Gates spoke after a State Department report was critical of Blackwater for several incidents in which its agents allegedly used excessive force. An official traveling with the secretary says the Pentagon report did not look specifically at those incidents because Blackwater works for the State Department. But the official says the report includes an evaluation 9 of how Blackwater fits into the overall security structure in Iraq.


Last week, Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England sent a memo 10 to field commanders, reminding them that they have the authority to supervise security contractors and the responsibility to make sure their rules for the use of force are consistent with the military's own rules.




n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
n.监督,管理
  • The work was done under my supervision.这项工作是在我的监督之下完成的。
  • The old man's will was executed under the personal supervision of the lawyer.老人的遗嘱是在律师的亲自监督下执行的。
n.(建筑、监造中的)承包人( contractor的名词复数 )
  • We got estimates from three different contractors before accepting the lowest. 我们得到3个承包商的报价后,接受了最低的报价。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Contractors winning construction jobs had to kick back 2 per cent of the contract price to the mafia. 赢得建筑工作的承包商得抽出合同价格的百分之二的回扣给黑手党。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓
  • the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
  • At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后,至少有300名平民下落不明。
n.勘漏,失察,疏忽
  • I consider this a gross oversight on your part.我把这件事看作是你的一大疏忽。
  • Your essay was not marked through an oversight on my part.由于我的疏忽你的文章没有打分。
n.(pl.)工具,器具;vt.实行,实施,执行
  • Don't undertake a project unless you can implement it.不要承担一项计划,除非你能完成这项计划。
  • The best implement for digging a garden is a spade.在花园里挖土的最好工具是铁锹。
n.估价,评价;赋值
  • I attempted an honest evaluation of my own life.我试图如实地评价我自己的一生。
  • The new scheme is still under evaluation.新方案还在评估阶段。
n.照会,备忘录;便笺;通知书;规章
  • Do you want me to send the memo out?您要我把这份备忘录分发出去吗?
  • Can you type a memo for me?您能帮我打一份备忘录吗?
学英语单词
.lyr
abhesive
account payable register
accounts payable-related parties
annual load factor
anticipated import
Asian-dollar bond
at high noon
back rope
ball shape
bandsaw machine
Base-pushout
Bontrug
borkosky
brachygnathism
Burgers equation
C size
cayenne peppered bancurd
cents-off promotion
chamfer planes
charmant
concrete design
control switch-board
danshenxinkun
decompression stage
deferred printing mode
deflection plate
description of subroutine
diagonal beam
diyu huaijiao pills
double possessive
en flute
flood-water forest
frequency modulation tube
friction-head
frozen plants
gloeosporium blumeae
gold-finder
Green, Henrietta Howland Robinson
grouts
hard rock concrete
hatchettind
heath-hen
hepatico-colic
heteropoda pingtungensis
HyLusupian
instrumental variable technique
internal reticularapparatus
jacket closure
LE cell
linear systematic statistic
lithospermums
locker carrier
longitudinal bend test
louderbackite
maintenance and service (MS)
map printing
metachrome mordant
microcomputer reset command
Montauban
mortar mix ratio
multiregion problem
nettletons
neutron activation kit
non-essential bus
nonphysicists
nonthermal neutron
occupational tax
perbasic
pneumoresection
power station planning
prolongest
pseudopupae
rear protection
recharge area
right to the use of a site
ritsch
Rivest-Shamir-Adleman
routing number
Rumigny
run around with sb
sanzas
sea-lions
shadowings
side dive
signorise
Silver-Edingtonite
Sir William Walton
solicitorss-general
solovox
somatolactin
subsidiary foodstuffs
szer
to make it worse
Trade L.
Tweed, River
unsupported area
vacuum flash pasteurizer
variomycin
vogues
waco
Zanthoxylum echinocarpum