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新闻翻译补充材料-9 2013年11月24日

Bin Laden plotting high-impact strikes,

warn British officials

Osama bin Laden may be planning attacks against major targets in the next few weeks if he can mobilize resources, senior British government officials said yesterday.

“I undersdand he is preparing for high-impact terrorist attacks in the coming weeks, if he’s able to,” Europe Minister Peter Hain told the BBC, citing intelligence reports.

“We’ve got to track him down. We’ve got to stop him.”

Foreign Secretary Jack Straw echoed the warning, saying there could be attacks in Britain.

Police in the UK have warned that London could be a major target for attacks like those carried out in New York and Washington.

Comparing bin Laden’s al Qaeda network to the Nazi regime, he said: “We have to work on the basis that this organization is still there around the world and that there continues to be a risk of them making further attacks,” Mr Straw told the BBC.

“We don’t know exactly where. On the one hand none of us wish to raise anxiety in the minds of the public, but we would be complacent and irresponsible not to warn of the risks.”

Mr Straw stressed the need for a major international drive to crack down on terrorism and the governments that might sponsor it. Otherwise, he said, there would always be a risk of further attacks.

“You can’t negotiate with these people. The best historical parallel, I’m afraid to say, is those at the top of the Nazi regime. It wasn’t possible to negotiate with Hitler, although some people understandably but naively thought that is was,” he said.

A British newspaper has reported that “dozens of terrorists” allied to bin Laden were on the run in Britain and could be planning more violence.

The Times quoted intelligence analysts as saying that militants could send suicide car or lorry bombs into London’s financial center or against installations belonging to the United States.