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By Tom Rivers
London
26 February 2008

A man described as one of Britain's top terrorist recruiters has been found guilty of training young followers 1 in rural camps in England. For VOA, Tom Rivers reports from London.


Tanzanian-born Mohammed Hamid, who has lived most of his life in Britain, has been found guilty of encouraging others to murder and of running terrorist training camps in rural England.


The 50-year-old Muslim who resided in the east end of London became radicalized in the 1990s and often called himself Osama bin 2 London.


The prosecution 3 portrayed 4 him as a dangerous man who recruited, groomed 5 and provided terrorist training for young Muslim men.


Although his young recruits did not have firearms, they trained with sticks and paint-ball guns in the woods of Britain's Lake District and the New Forest.


Before the trial, Hamid spoke 6 to the BBC about what he saw as the daily violence he was seeing on the television coming out of Afghanistan and Iraq.


"If you see 50 women, children being slaughtered 7, what is the first thing you are going to do? You are going to tell somebody, 'Look, let us go there and help them'. The minute you tell somebody to go and help them, whoa, you are recruiting terrorists," he said.


The trial was closely watched as Hamid was accused of inspiring the four July 21, 2005 bombers 8 who attacked the London transportation system. Unlike the suicide bombers that struck two weeks prior, the July 21 extremists had problems with their detonators and their bombs did not explode.


Assistant Police Commissioner 9 Peter Clarke says at that time, Hamid came under much closer scrutiny 10.


"It was in the wake of the attacks in 2005 that we focused even more tightly on this group and began to develop the evidence," he said. "And remember, in order to get the evidence we needed to put before the courts, we had to deploy 11 an undercover officer to infiltrate 12 this group and to gather this evidence at really close quarters. So, that is what we had to do and that is just how difficult it is to reach the required standard."


In addition to Hamid, seven others in his group have been found guilty of lesser 13 charges in a series of linked trials that have been under a partial reporting black-out.


Sentencing will be announced at a later date.




追随者( follower的名词复数 ); 用户; 契据的附面; 从动件
  • the followers of Mahatma Gandhi 圣雄甘地的拥护者
  • The reformer soon gathered a band of followers round him. 改革者很快就获得一群追随者支持他。
n.箱柜;vt.放入箱内;[计算机] DOS文件名:二进制目标文件
  • He emptied several bags of rice into a bin.他把几袋米倒进大箱里。
  • He threw the empty bottles in the bin.他把空瓶子扔进垃圾箱。
n.起诉,告发,检举,执行,经营
  • The Smiths brought a prosecution against the organizers.史密斯家对组织者们提出起诉。
  • He attempts to rebut the assertion made by the prosecution witness.他试图反驳原告方证人所作的断言。
v.画像( portray的过去式和过去分词 );描述;描绘;描画
  • Throughout the trial, he portrayed himself as the victim. 在审讯过程中,他始终把自己说成是受害者。
  • The author portrayed his father as a vicious drunkard. 作者把他父亲描绘成一个可恶的酒鬼。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
v.照料或梳洗(马等)( groom的过去式和过去分词 );使做好准备;训练;(给动物)擦洗
  • She is always perfectly groomed. 她总是打扮得干净利落。
  • Duff is being groomed for the job of manager. 达夫正接受训练,准备当经理。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • 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。
v.屠杀,杀戮,屠宰( slaughter的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The invading army slaughtered a lot of people. 侵略军杀了许多人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Hundreds of innocent civilians were cruelly slaughtered. 数百名无辜平民遭残杀。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.轰炸机( bomber的名词复数 );投弹手;安非他明胶囊;大麻叶香烟
  • 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》
n.(政府厅、局、处等部门)专员,长官,委员
  • The commissioner has issued a warrant for her arrest.专员发出了对她的逮捕令。
  • He was tapped for police commissioner.他被任命为警务处长。
n.详细检查,仔细观察
  • His work looks all right,but it will not bear scrutiny.他的工作似乎很好,但是经不起仔细检查。
  • Few wives in their forties can weather such a scrutiny.很少年过四十的妻子经得起这么仔细的观察。
v.(军)散开成战斗队形,布置,展开
  • The infantry began to deploy at dawn.步兵黎明时开始进入战斗位置。
  • The president said he had no intention of deploying ground troops.总统称并不打算部署地面部队。
vt./vi.渗入,透过;浸润
  • The teacher tried to infiltrate her ideas into the children's minds.老师设法把她的思想渗透到孩子们的心中。
  • It can infiltrate as much as 100 kilometers into enemy territory at night.可以在夜间深入敌领土100千米。
adj.次要的,较小的;adv.较小地,较少地
  • Kept some of the lesser players out.不让那些次要的球员参加联赛。
  • She has also been affected,but to a lesser degree.她也受到波及,但程度较轻。
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