VOA标准英语10月-Indonesia Says Bali Bombers to be Executed Next M

Indonesian officials announced they will soon execute the three Islamic militants¹ convicted for the 2002 terrorist bombings on the tourist island of Bali that killed 202 people. VOA's Nancy-Amelia Collins in Jakarta has more.

The spokesman for the attorney general's office, Jasman Panjaitan, told reporters Friday all legal matters pertaining² to the executions have now been completed.

He says the execution will take place in early November, but did not give an exact date.
　

Bali Bombers3 from left, Imam Samudra, Ali Ghufron and Amrozi Nurhasyim (2007 file photo)

Jasman said the three men will be executed at Nusakambangan island, the maximum security prison island just off central Java where the three men are being held.

Most executions in Indonesia are not announced and are carried out late at night by a firing squad⁴.

Imam Samudra, Amrozi Nurhasyim, and Ali Ghufron were sentenced to death five years ago for planning and carrying out the 2002 suicide bombings on two night clubs in Bali that left 202 people dead, many of them foreign tourists.

The three men belong to the Southeast Asian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah, which is also blamed for the 2003 Marriot Hotel bombing in Jakarta, the 2004 bombing outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, and a second terrorist attack in Bali in 2005.

The authorities have arrested more than 300 Islamic militants linked to Jemaah Islamiyah over the past few years and most experts agree the group has been decimated and is no longer capable of carrying out large scale attacks.

But security expert and author on the terrorist group, Ken⁵ Conboy, says there are still small networks of Islamic radicals⁶ who could carry out revenge attacks, as vowed⁷ by the Bali bombers, after the executions take place.

"There's a whole network of hard-line radicals that have easy access to explosives…and let's face it - vest bombs and pipe bombs are not very sophisticated and certainly within their ability, so the technology's there and the new materials are out there, so it's not that tough to do," he said.

Earlier this week police say they foiled a plot by militants to bomb a fuel depot⁸ in Jakarta and arrested five suspects, but they did not elaborate further or say whether the plan was related to the Bali bombers' impending⁹ execution.

1 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

2 pertaining   

与…有关系的，附属…的，为…固有的(to)

参考例句：

• Living conditions are vastly different from those pertaining in their country of origin. 生活条件与他们祖国大不相同。
• The inspector was interested in everything pertaining to the school. 视察员对有关学校的一切都感兴趣。

3 bombers   

n.轰炸机( bomber的名词复数 )；投弹手；安非他明胶囊；大麻叶香烟

参考例句：

• Enemy bombers carried out a blitz on the city. 敌军轰炸机对这座城市进行了突袭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Royal Airforce sill remained dangerously short of bombers. 英国皇家空军仍未脱离极为缺乏轰炸机的危境。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 squad   

n.班，小队，小团体；vt.把…编成班或小组

参考例句：

• The squad leader ordered the men to mark time.班长命令战士们原地踏步。
• A squad is the smallest unit in an army.班是军队的最小构成单位。

5 ken   

n.视野，知识领域

参考例句：

• Such things are beyond my ken.我可不懂这些事。
• Abstract words are beyond the ken of children.抽象的言辞超出小孩所理解的范围.

6 radicals   

n.激进分子( radical的名词复数 )；根基；基本原理；[数学]根数

参考例句：

• 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。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The worry is that the radicals will grow more intransigent. 现在人们担忧激进分子会变得更加不妥协。 来自辞典例句

7 vowed   

起誓，发誓（vow的过去式与过去分词形式）

参考例句：

• He vowed quite solemnly that he would carry out his promise. 他非常庄严地发誓要实现他的诺言。
• I vowed to do more of the cooking myself. 我发誓自己要多动手做饭。

8 depot   

n.仓库，储藏处；公共汽车站；火车站

参考例句：

• The depot is only a few blocks from here.公共汽车站离这儿只有几个街区。
• They leased the building as a depot.他们租用这栋大楼作仓库。

9 impending   

a.imminent, about to come or happen

参考例句：

• Against a background of impending famine, heavy fighting took place. 即将发生饥荒之时，严重的战乱爆发了。
• The king convoke parliament to cope with the impending danger. 国王召开国会以应付迫近眉睫的危险。