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  • Top US General: Progress in Afghanistan Will be Slow
  • 美高级将军:阿富汗的进展将是缓慢的
  •   U.S. Army General David Petraeus says progress against the insurgency in Afghanistan will be slower than during the surge of American forces in Iraq two years ago.
  • 美国陆军彼得雷乌斯上将说,和两年前美军向伊拉克增兵相比,打击阿富汗反叛分子的进展会较為缓慢。

  •   Speaking on Capitol Hill Wednesday, General Petraeus, the commanding general of the U.S. Central Command, said he fully supports President Barack Obama's decision to deploy an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan.
  • 星期叁,担任美国中央司令部司令的彼得雷乌斯将军在国会山作证时说,他完全支援欧巴马总统向阿富汗增兵 3 万人的决定。

  •   General Petraeus said the situation in Afghanistan is likely to get harder before it gets easier, but success is possible.
  • 彼得雷乌斯将军说,阿富汗的局势在好转前会变得更加艰难,但是成功是可能的。

  •   He said the new policy will enable U.S. forces to make important progress over the next 18 months.
  • 他说,新政策将让美军在接下来的 18 个月取得重要进展。

  •   The general appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday alongside the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry.
  • 彼得雷乌斯将军星期叁和美国驻阿富汗大使艾肯伯里一起在参议院外交委员会出席作证。

  •   Eikenberry, who previously questioned aspects of a troop buildup, reiterated his support for the president's new strategy in his second straight day of questioning by lawmakers.
  • 艾肯伯里最初质疑增兵的情况。但是星期二在连续第二天就总统新策略接受议员质询时,他重申支援欧巴马总统的新战略。

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  • Militants Blow Up Two Schools in Pakistan
  • 激进分子炸毁巴基斯坦两所学校
  •   Pakistani officials say militants have dynamited two boys schools in the northwestern Khyber region.
  • 巴基斯坦官员说,激进分子在西北部开柏地区炸毁了两所男校。

  •   Officials say no one was injured in the early Wednesday attacks in Bara, a town about 20 kilometers south of Peshawar.
  • 官员说,星期叁早晨在白沙瓦以南约 20 公里处的巴拉镇发生的袭击没有造成人员伤亡。

  •   Wazir, Khyber's top administrative official, says the blasts destroyed both main school buildings.
  • 开柏行政首长瓦齐尔说,爆炸摧毁了两所学校的主要建筑。

  •   There have been no claims of responsibility but Wazir blames fighters allied with the Taliban and a local militant group called Lashkar-e-Islam (Army of Islam).
  • 目前尚没有人宣佈对此负责,但是瓦齐尔指责同塔利班有关联的战斗人员,以及当地一个激进组织伊斯兰军应為此事负责。

  •   Al-Qaida and Taliban-linked militants have destroyed hundreds of mostly girls schools across the country.
  • 基地组织以及同塔利班有联繫的激进分子已经损毁了全国数百间学校,其中大部分是女子学校。

  •   Meanwhile, the Pakistani army has released an assessment of its two-month old offensive against militants in the South Waziristan tribal region.
  • 与此同时,巴基斯坦军方公佈了两个月来在南瓦齐里斯坦部落地区对激进分子展开攻势的军事评估。

  •   In a Wednesday statement, the army says 79 security forces and 589 suspected militants have been killed in the operation.
  • 在星期叁的声明中,军方说,有 79 名安全部队成员和 589 名激进分子嫌疑人在行动中丧生。

  •   The military also reported recovering hundreds of pistols and rifles, several hundred rockets and missiles and more than 200,000 machine gun rounds.
  • 军方还报告说,他们缴获了数百把手枪、步枪、数百枚火箭弹、导弹以及超过 20 万发的机关枪子弹。

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