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  • US Identifies Marines in Urination Video
  • 美国确认视频中虐待塔利班成员遗体的美海军陆战队员
  •   U.S. investigators believe they have identified and questioned at least two of the four Marines seen on video urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters.
  • 美国调查人员表示,他们确认并讯问了虐待塔利班成员尸体的四名海军陆战队成员中的至少两人;一段视频显示,4 名海军陆战队员在塔利班武装分子的尸体上撒尿。

  •   Senior Marine officials with knowledge of the investigation say the four were members of a 1,000-man battalion from Camp LeJeune, ((in the southern U.S. state of )) North Carolina.
  • 了解此次调查的高级海军陆战队官员说,这 4 人是北卡罗来纳州有一千人的乐洁恩营的成员。

  •   The battalion recently completed a combat tour in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, where it lost seven of its members during clashes with the Taliban.
  • 这个营最近在阿富汗南部赫尔曼德省作战,在与塔利班的衝突中损失了 7 名队员。

  •   The officials also say the four men appear to be part of the battalion's sniper team, based on their gear and weapons that they are carrying in the video.
  • 这些官员还说,根据视频显示陆战队员配备的武器和装备,这 4 名男子看来是营中狙击队的成员。

  •   Top U.S. officials, including Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have condemned the video, Panetta calling it "utterly deplorable."
  • 美国国防部长帕内塔和国务卿克林顿等高级官员谴责视频中的事件;帕内塔称,这一事件是 “极其可悲的”。

  •   On Friday, the commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan expressed his outrage over the video.
  • 星期五,驻阿富汗的国际安全援助部队指挥官对视频中的事件表示不满。

  •   General John Allen, currently traveling in the United States, said such acts must be condemned in the "strongest manner possible."
  • 目前在美国的约翰‧艾伦将军说,这样的举动必须受到 “最為强烈的” 谴责。

  •   He also said those responsible would be held accountable. Several officials say that if the incident is confirmed, the Marines involved could be charged with war crimes for not treating the bodies of those killed in war honorably.
  • 他还说,必须追究当事人的责任;有几名官员说,如果这一事件被证实,涉嫌此事的海军陆战队将被控犯有不尊重战争牺牲者尸体的战争罪。

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  • Thousands Rally in Syria as Arab League Chief Warns of Civil War
  • 阿盟秘书长警告叙利亚正陷入内战
  •   The chief of the Arab League warned Friday that Syria may be heading towards a civil war as thousands of Syrians took to the streets in support of an armed rebel group.
  • 阿拉伯国家联盟秘书长星期五警告说,叙利亚可能正走向内战;与此同时,数以千计叙利亚人走上街头支援一个反政府武装组织。

  •   Arab League head Nabil Elaraby made the comments in interviews with The Associated Press and an Egyptian television station while anti-government protesters voiced support for the Free Syrian Army, composed mainly of former soldiers.
  • 阿拉伯国家联盟秘书长阿拉比在接受美联社和一家埃及电视臺採访时发出这一警告;与此同时,反政府示威者向以倒戈军人為主的自由叙利亚军表示支援。

  •   Activists say 20,000 gathered in the town of Ariha in the northwest Idlib province.
  • 活动人士说,叙利亚西北伊德利卜省阿利哈镇有 2 万人举行集会。

  •   The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says soldiers opened fire on protesters in the region, killing at least one person.
  • 叙利亚人权了望台表示,该地区军人向示威者开枪,打死至少一人。

  •   The 10-month crackdown on anti-government protests has turned more violent in recent months as defecting soldiers have taken up arms against the government.
  • 对反政府示威者 10 个月的镇压最近几个月变得越来越暴力,倒戈军人已经开始拿起武器反对政府。

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