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USA
Strikes Afghanistan
Carpet Bomb 地毯式轟炸: U.S. planes carpet-bombed Taliban front
lines north of Kabul on Wednesday and attacked the Muslim militia's powerbase of
Kandahar in southeast Afghanistan, hitting a clinic.
Pullback 撤軍: Palestinians said the pullback should be carried
out unconditionally, and the United States kept up its pressure to end the
operation, which is Israel's most intensive in 13 months of fighting.
Pound 猛烈轟炸: U.S. airstrikes pound Afghan homes.
Cyberterrorism 網絡恐怖主義: President forms Cyberterrorism
panel.
Anthrax 炭疽: Anthrax in Florida, which US Attorney General John
Ashcroft said was being treated "very seriously," amid concerns over a possible
bioterrorist attack.
military buildup 軍事集結 : The United States
has sent some 1,000 soldiers to Uzbekistan as part of its biggest military
buildup since the 1991 Gulf War.
terrorist mastermind 恐怖大亨: The country's ruling Taliban
militia declared the assault a ``terrorist attack'' and said alleged terrorist
mastermind Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Momammed Omar had survived.
pay a price 付出代價 : "Now the Taliban will pay a price,"
Bush vowed.
hit targets 攻擊目標：U.S. and British forces hit targets in
at least three cities.
launch strikes 發動進攻：U.S. and Britain has launched Afghan
strikes.
warplane, military aircraft 軍用飛機：
Missiles and
warplanes streaked through the Afghan night and rocked at least three cities in
a U.S.-British attack on Osama bin Laden and his Taliban backers
Sunday.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said an initial goal of the
strikes was to render air defenses ineffective and to wipe out the Taliban's
military aircraft.
cruise missiles 巡航導彈：Pentagon officials said the United
States and Britain launched 50 cruise missiles against targets inside
Afghanistan in an attack that also involved the most sophisticated U.S.
warplanes.
military capabilities 軍事能力：President Bush gave a live
televised address after the strikes began, saying U.S. and British forces were
taking ``targeted actions'' against Taliban military capabilities and al-Qaida.
hand over 交出：In the days following the strikes at the
World Trade Center and Pentagon, the president had issued a series of demands
for the Taliban to hand over bin Laden.
fortification 防御工事：The head of an Afghan opposition
group office in Iran said more than 200 U.S. and British missiles hit
Afghanistan and ``devastated'' Taliban's fortifications in Kandahar, Kabul and
Mazar-e-Sharif.
infidel 異教徒：Later, Taliban Deputy Defense Minister
Mullah Noor Ali said ''the people of Afghanistan will resist. They will never
accept the rule of infidels.''
jihad 圣戰（伊斯蘭教徒對異教徒的戰爭）：The influential and
Taliban-sympathetic Afghan Defense Council, based in the eastern Pakistani city
of Lahore, issued a call for "jihad,'' or holy war.
air base 空軍基地：Shortly before the U.S. strikes began, the
Taliban had said they had sent thousands of troops to the border with
Uzbekistan, whose president has allowed U.S. troops use of an air base for the
anti-terrorism campaign.
stronghold 要塞據點：But the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar -
already a shabby city of rocket-gouged streets and bullet-scarred
homes.
refueling stop 補給站：The first was a punishing attack on
the airport, which was built by the United States as a refueling stop between
Europe and India before the long-haul Boeing 747s were introduced.
on condition of anonymity 匿名：The assault on the southern
Afghan city came in at least three waves, according to Taliban sources who spoke
to The Associated Press by telephone on condition of anonymity.
armada 艦隊：Forty U.S. and British warplanes and an armada
of warships and submarines pummeled strongholds of the al-Qaida network and the
Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
firepower 火力：The demonstration of Western firepower was
the first wave of an anti-terrorism campaign promised after the Sept. 11 attacks
on the United States.
cargo planes 運輸機：U.S. Air Force C-17 cargo planes flying
from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, were dropping food and medical supplies inside
Afghanistan as part of President Bush 's effort to aid displaced civilians.
carrier 航空母艦：A senior defense official, speaking on
condition of anonymity, said later that Navy F/A-18 and F-14 fighters flew
missions off two U.S. carriers in the Arabian Sea, and that no land-based Air
Force strike planes other than bombers were used in the first round of
attacks.
blitz 閃電戰（尤指空襲）：Britain joined U.S.-led attacks on
Afghanistan, using submarines to launch a cruise missile blitz against Osama bin
Laden and his Taliban protectors.
Tomahawk 戰斧式巡航導彈：The naval task forces include warships
capable of firing Tomahawk cruise missiles, which were last used in Afghanistan
in 1998 against bin Laden training camps in a failed bid to kill the exiled
Saudi-born millionaire and his lieutenants.
Tomcat 美國航母F-14野貓戰斗機：Two US Navy airmen were killed when
their F-14 "Tomcat" aircraft crashed the day before yesterday during a landing
manoeuvre at an air show at Willow Grove US Naval Air Station, an annual event
attended by 200,000 people, a Navy spokeswoman said.
neutral country 中立國：The Taliban insisted they would not
be bullied into handing over bin Laden, but said he could be given to a neutral
country if Washington provided evidence linking him to last month's suicide
plane attacks.
air raid 空襲：The air raids have sparked an exodus of
people from cities -- many heading toward Pakistan with belongings piled hastily
onto donkeys and camels.
strip the citizenship 取消國籍：Kuwait decided Sunday to
strip the citizenship of the spokesman who appeared in the tapes, Sulaiman Abu
Ghaith, a former Kuwaiti teacher.
all-out attack 全面進攻：The United States and its partners
have been urging the opposition to avoid launching an all-out attack on Kabul
until a broad-based government can be formed to replace the Taliban.
extremist 極端分子：On Sunday, thousands of Muslim extremists
converged on the city of Jacobabad, site of one of two airfields that Pakistani
officials privately say the Americans have been allowed to use to support the
campaign, though not to launch attacks on Afghanistan.
shrapnel 流霰彈：He said a bomb or missile had exploded
nearby and shrapnel landed on his house.
commando 突擊隊：Taliban's troops hit as allies plan for
commando raids. | 
