Egypt says Palestinian group behind church attack

    CAIRO, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian（埃及） Interior Minister Habib al- Adly said on Sunday that a Palestinian group linked to al-Qaida was behind the bombing of a church in Alexandria that killed more than 21 people on New Year's Eve.
    In a televised address celebrating the National Police Day, Al-Adly named the group as the Army of Islam, a radical¹ Islamic Palestinian terrorist group based in the Gaza Strip.
    There are "conclusive² evidence indicating the Gaza-based group was behind the planning and conducting of the attack that seized the lives of many Egyptians," the top security official said.
    He added that the group had recruited（雇用,招募） Egyptians, but that could not conceal³ the role of this group in terrorist acts.
    However, a source from the Army of Islam on Sunday denied Egypt 's accusation⁴ that it was behind the deadly church blast, saying that "the Army has no relation to the explosion."The Egyptian ministry⁵ said an Egyptian man had been suspected of assisting the group in carrying out the attack.
    Ahmad Ibrahim, born in 1984 in Alexandria, admitted during the police investigations⁶ that he had traveled many times to Gaza in 2008. He met many members from the Army of Islam group and admired their thoughts, Egypt's official MENA news agency quoted a security source as saying.
    The same group asked him last year via the internet to locate important Christians⁷ and Jewish worshiping places in Egypt to conduct a terrorist operation, it said.（本文由在线英语听力室整理编辑）
 

1 radical   

n.激进份子，原子团，根号；adj.根本的，激进的，彻底的

参考例句：

• The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.病人在医院得到了根治。
• She is radical in her demands.她的要求十分偏激。

2 conclusive   

adj.最后的，结论的；确凿的，消除怀疑的

参考例句：

• They produced some fairly conclusive evidence.他们提供了一些相当确凿的证据。
• Franklin did not believe that the French tests were conclusive.富兰克林不相信这个法国人的实验是结论性的。

3 conceal   

v.隐藏，隐瞒，隐蔽

参考例句：

• He had to conceal his identity to escape the police.为了躲避警方，他只好隐瞒身份。
• He could hardly conceal his joy at his departure.他几乎掩饰不住临行时的喜悦。

4 accusation   

n.控告，指责，谴责

参考例句：

• I was furious at his making such an accusation.我对他的这种责备非常气愤。
• She knew that no one would believe her accusation.她知道没人会相信她的指控。

5 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

6 investigations   

（正式的）调查( investigation的名词复数 )； 侦查； 科学研究； 学术研究

参考例句：

• His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing. 他进行了深入彻底的调查，但没有发现什么。
• He often sent them out to make investigations. 他常常派他们出去作调查。

7 Christians   

n.基督教徒( Christian的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Christians of all denominations attended the conference. 基督教所有教派的人都出席了这次会议。
• His novel about Jesus caused a furore among Christians. 他关于耶稣的小说激起了基督教徒的公愤。