VOA标准英语2010年-Odierno: Iran Funding Extremists in Ir
时间：2018-12-16 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2010年(八)月
U.S. commander for Iraq, Gen. Ray Odierno, speaks at a press conference at the U.S. embassy in the Green Zone of Baghdad, Iraq (File Photo)
The commander of U.S. forces in Iraq says Iran is fueling instability in neighboring Iraq by funding and training Shi'ite extremist groups in the country.
General Ray Odierno told CNN on Sunday that Iran does not want Iraq to become a strong democratic country. He said Iran would rather see Iraq become a "weak governmental institution."
Odierno also said it would take a "complete failure" of Iraq's security forces for the U.S. to resume combat operations there. He said Iraqi forces have done so well for so long that he finds their failure unlikely.
Meanwhile, the U.S. military says an American soldier was killed in southern Iraq's Basra province on Sunday.
The soldier was the first fatality 1 among U.S. troops in Iraq since the last American combat brigade left the country last Thursday.
Brookings expert on U.S. troop presence in Iraq speaks with VOA's Susan Yackee:
Smaller U.S. combat units remain in Iraq but are scheduled to leave by the end of this month.
About 50,000 U.S. troops will stay in Iraq until the end of 2011 as a stability force.
Their focus will be training Iraqi soldiers and performing counter-terrorism operations, but they will be fully 2 capable of fighting if they are attacked or if Iraqi forces need help.
More than 4,400 U.S. military personnel have been killed in Iraq since war began in March 2003 with a U.S.-led invasion that eventually toppled Iraq's Saddam Hussein.
Late Saturday, Iraqi police in the city of Nasiriya used water cannon 3 to disperse 4 stone-throwing demonstrators angry about severe shortages of electricity.
Officials say at least nine protesters and six police were hurt in the clashes.
Public anger at power shortages has increased in June, July and August as summer temperatures regularly reach 50 degrees Celsius 5.
Violent protests in Nasiriya and Basra in June left two protesters dead and wounded a number of police and civilians 6.
Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.
- She struggle against fatality in vain.她徒然奋斗反抗宿命。
- He began to have a growing sense of fatality.他开始有一种越来越强烈的宿命感。
- The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
- They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
- The soldiers fired the cannon.士兵们开炮。
- The cannon thundered in the hills.大炮在山间轰鸣。
- The cattle were swinging their tails to disperse the flies.那些牛甩动着尾巴驱赶苍蝇。
- The children disperse for the holidays.孩子们放假了。