ВУЗ:
Составители:
Рубрика:
13
Study the expressions:
to injure smb.’s pride задеть чье-л. самолюбие
to injure one’s health вредить здоровью
to wound the ear резать слух
to lick one’s wound зализывать раны
to rub salt into smb.’s wounds сыпать соль на раны
to hurt oneself пораниться
to hurt smb. to the quick задеть кого-л. за живое
Nothing hurts like the truth. Правда глаза колет.
Nouns to remember: gun, weapon, arm(s).
Gun – a tool used to send out a liquid such as paint or glue.
gun fodder пушечное мясо
a big gun важная персона, «шишка»
as sure as a gun верно, как дважды два – четыре
to go great guns быть на гребне успеха, быть на коне
Weapon – something that you use to fight with such as knife,
bomb or gun.
weapons of mass destruction оружие массового уничтожения
all-purpose weapons универсальное оружие
Arm(s) – weapons used for fighting wars.
to bear arms служить в армии
to be under arms находиться на военной службе
To arms! К оружию!
14
# Read the texts and discuss the problem of terrorism:
CHARACTERISTICS OF TERRORIST ATTACKS
A. Planning and Organization
All terrorists share one characteristic: they never commit actions
randomly or senselessly. Every terrorist wants an attack to generate
maximum publicity because media attention helps achieve the intimida-
tion needed for terrorism’s success. Accordingly, terrorist acts are care-
fully planned. Testimony by a terrorist convicted in the 1998 bombing of
the U.S. embassy in Kenya revealed that al-Qaeda spent nearly five years
planning the attack.
Several essential elements go into planning a major terrorist attack.
Planning begins with gathering detailed reconnaissance and intelligence
about a target: its defenses, vulnerabilities, and patterns of daily activity.
Meanwhile, logistics specialists ensure that all the supporting tasks are
accomplished. These tasks include assembling the weapons and other
supplies and communications equipment needed for the operation, ar-
ranging for safe houses and transportation for the terrorist attack team,
and mapping escape routes. A bombmaker or other weapons expert often
joins the final planning phases. Finally, after all the preparations have
been completed, the operation is handed off to the team that carries out
the attack. For security reasons separate teams that do not know one an-
other execute each step, from planning to logistics, attack, and escape.
All terrorist groups share another basic characteristic: secrecy
about their operations. Terrorism operates underground, concealed from
the eyes of the authorities and from potential informants among the popu-
lace. To maintain secrecy, terrorist groups are often organized into cells,
with each cell separate from other cells in the organization but working in
harmony with them. A terrorist cell can be as small as two or three peo-
ple, with only one person knowing someone in another cell. Should the
authorities apprehend a member of one cell, they can obtain information
only about the activities of that cell – or at most about an adjacent cell –
and not about the entire organization. For this reason terrorists prefer this
organizational structure of interconnected cells. The structure narrows, in
# Read the texts and discuss the problem of terrorism:
Study the expressions:
CHARACTERISTICS OF TERRORIST ATTACKS
to injure smb.’s pride задеть чье-л. самолюбие
to injure one’s health вредить здоровью A. Planning and Organization
All terrorists share one characteristic: they never commit actions
to wound the ear резать слух randomly or senselessly. Every terrorist wants an attack to generate
to lick one’s wound зализывать раны maximum publicity because media attention helps achieve the intimida-
to rub salt into smb.’s wounds сыпать соль на раны tion needed for terrorism’s success. Accordingly, terrorist acts are care-
fully planned. Testimony by a terrorist convicted in the 1998 bombing of
to hurt oneself пораниться the U.S. embassy in Kenya revealed that al-Qaeda spent nearly five years
to hurt smb. to the quick задеть кого-л. за живое planning the attack.
Nothing hurts like the truth. Правда глаза колет. Several essential elements go into planning a major terrorist attack.
Planning begins with gathering detailed reconnaissance and intelligence
Nouns to remember: gun, weapon, arm(s). about a target: its defenses, vulnerabilities, and patterns of daily activity.
Gun – a tool used to send out a liquid such as paint or glue. Meanwhile, logistics specialists ensure that all the supporting tasks are
gun fodder пушечное мясо accomplished. These tasks include assembling the weapons and other
a big gun важная персона, «шишка» supplies and communications equipment needed for the operation, ar-
as sure as a gun верно, как дважды два – четыре ranging for safe houses and transportation for the terrorist attack team,
to go great guns быть на гребне успеха, быть на коне and mapping escape routes. A bombmaker or other weapons expert often
joins the final planning phases. Finally, after all the preparations have
Weapon – something that you use to fight with such as knife, been completed, the operation is handed off to the team that carries out
bomb or gun. the attack. For security reasons separate teams that do not know one an-
weapons of mass destruction оружие массового уничтожения other execute each step, from planning to logistics, attack, and escape.
all-purpose weapons универсальное оружие All terrorist groups share another basic characteristic: secrecy
about their operations. Terrorism operates underground, concealed from
Arm(s) – weapons used for fighting wars. the eyes of the authorities and from potential informants among the popu-
to bear arms служить в армии lace. To maintain secrecy, terrorist groups are often organized into cells,
to be under arms находиться на военной службе with each cell separate from other cells in the organization but working in
To arms! К оружию! harmony with them. A terrorist cell can be as small as two or three peo-
ple, with only one person knowing someone in another cell. Should the
authorities apprehend a member of one cell, they can obtain information
only about the activities of that cell – or at most about an adjacent cell –
and not about the entire organization. For this reason terrorists prefer this
organizational structure of interconnected cells. The structure narrows, in
13 14
