2007年VOA标准英语-Saddam Execution Video Scandal Fuels Reactions
时间：2019-01-06 作者：英语课 分类：2007年VOA标准英语（一月）
By Leta Hong Fincher
Washington, DC
04 January 2007
watch Saddam Execution Reaction
An Iraqi official says the person suspected to have secretly recorded video of Saddam Hussein's execution on a mobile phone camera has been arrested. Bush administration officials say the United States raised concerns about the manner of the execution.
Nouri al-Maliki
An adviser 1 to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said the government is leading an investigation 2 into the abusive acts at Saddam's execution.
Mobile phone footage---widely distributed on the Internet---documents witnesses taunting 3 Saddam Hussein moments before he was hanged.
Sunni Arabs in Iraq have staged demonstrations 4 at the conduct of Saddam's execution, saying it was an act of pure vengeance 5 by the Shiite-led government.
The top U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad attempted to distance the United States from the manner of Saddam's execution. "If you are asking me 'would we have done things differently?' Yes, we would have. But that's not our decision. That's the government of Iraq's decision."
President Bush declined to answer a question about the former Iraqi ruler's execution when he spoke 6 to reporters Wednesday.
White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad had expressed its concerns over the handling of Saddam's execution. But he emphasized that Saddam Hussein was executed after a long trial that met international standards. "There seems to be a lot of concern about the last two minutes of Saddam Hussein's life and less about the first 69 [years] in which he murdered hundreds of thousands of people."
Experts on the Middle East say the scandal has further inflamed 7 sectarian tensions between Sunni and Shi'ite Arabs in Iraq. Edmund Ghareeb is an international relations scholar at American University in Washington D.C.
"It is likely to pour oil on the fire of sectarianism and that in itself is going to make life difficult for both the United States and the Iraqi government."
An Iraqi special tribunal condemned 8 Saddam to death in November for his role in ordering the executions of 148 Shi'ites after a failed assassination 9 attempt in 1982.
- They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
- Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。
- In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
- He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
- She wagged a finger under his nose in a taunting gesture. 她当着他的面嘲弄地摇晃着手指。
- His taunting inclination subdued for a moment by the old man's grief and wildness. 老人的悲伤和狂乱使他那嘲弄的意图暂时收敛起来。
- Lectures will be interspersed with practical demonstrations. 讲课中将不时插入实际示范。
- The new military government has banned strikes and demonstrations. 新的军人政府禁止罢工和示威活动。
- He swore vengeance against the men who murdered his father.他发誓要向那些杀害他父亲的人报仇。
- For years he brooded vengeance.多年来他一直在盘算报仇。
- They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
- The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
- His comments have inflamed teachers all over the country. 他的评论激怒了全国教师。
- Her joints are severely inflamed. 她的关节严重发炎。 来自《简明英汉词典》