英闻天下——612 France Probing Bombing near Embassy
时间：2018-12-02 作者：英语课 分类：2013年NPR美国国家公共电台1月
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France is investigating a car bomb that took place outside the French embassy in the Libya capital Tripoli.
Two French guards and several residents have been injured in Tuesday's attack.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has flown out to Tripoli to assess the situation and bring home two the wounded French guards.
"The target of the attack was the friendship between the people of Libya and France, but also, in the bigger picture, everyone who fights against terrorism."
The explosion has caused a huge amount of damage to the French embassy compound as well as surrounding buildings.
The motive 1 for the attack isn't clear at this point.
France has increasingly become targeted by Islamic extremists, since its intervention 2 in overthrowing 3 al-Qaeda-backed militants 4 in northern Mali.
French forces were also very active in the NATO-led mission in Libya which toppled former leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
There have also been several attacks on diplomatic missions in Benghazi, but Tuesday's attack is the first in Tripoli since the civil war ended with Muammar Gadhafi's death.
1 motive
n.动机，目的；adv.发动的，运动的
- The police could not find a motive for the murder.警察不能找到谋杀的动机。
- He had some motive in telling this fable.他讲这寓言故事是有用意的。
2 intervention
n.介入，干涉，干预
- The government's intervention in this dispute will not help.政府对这场争论的干预不会起作用。
- Many people felt he would be hostile to the idea of foreign intervention.许多人觉得他会反对外来干预。
3 overthrowing
v.打倒，推翻( overthrow的现在分词 )；使终止
- They succeeded in overthrowing the fascist dictatorship. 他们成功推翻了法西斯独裁统治。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- I always delight in overthrowing those kinds of schemes. 我一向喜欢戳穿人家的诡计。 来自辞典例句