10 Famous Speeches. Книга для чтения на английском языке - стр. 6
On September the 11th, enemies of freedom committed |совершили| an act of war against our country. Americans have known wars – but for the past 136 years, they have been wars |это были войны| on foreign soil, except for one Sunday in 1941 |7 декабря 1941 – нападение Японии на Перл Харбор|. Americans have known the casualties |потери| of war – but not at the center of a great city on a peaceful morning. Americans have known surprise attacks – but never before on thousands of civilians. All of this was brought upon us in a single day – and night fell on |опустилась| a different world, a world where freedom itself is under attack. Americans have many questions tonight. Americans are asking: Who attacked our country? The evidence we have gathered all points to a collection of loosely affiliated |так или иначе связанные| terrorist organizations known as al Qaeda. They are some of the murderers indicted |осужденные| for bombing American embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, and responsible for bombing the USS Cole |Буш говорит об атаке эсминца Коул в Аденском заливе, когда два смертника на лодке с взрывчаткой влепились в эсминец|. Al Qaeda is to |имеет такое же отношение к| terror what the mafia is to crime. But its goal is not making money; its goal is remaking the world – and imposing its radical beliefs on people everywhere.
The terrorists practice a fringe form |крайнюю форму| of Islamic extremism that has been rejected |отвергнут| by Muslim scholars and the vast majority of Muslim clerics, a fringe movement that perverts |извращает| the peaceful teachings of Islam. The terrorists’ directive commands them to kill Christians and Jews, to kill all Americans, and make no distinctions |различий| among military and civilians, including women and children. This group and its leader – a person named Usama bin Laden – are linked to many other organizations in different countries, including the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. There are thousands of these terrorists in more than 60 countries. They are recruited from their own nations and neighborhoods and brought to camps in places like Afghanistan, where they are trained in the tactics of terror. They are sent back to their homes or sent to hide in countries around the world to plot |планировать| evil and destruction.
The leadership of al Qaeda has great influence in Afghanistan and supports the Taliban regime in controlling most of that country. In Afghanistan, we see al Qaeda’s vision for the world. Afghanistan’s people have been brutalized |подвергнуты насилию|; many are starving and many have fled |многие сбежали|. Women are not allowed to attend school. You can be jailed |посажен в тюрьму| for owning a television. Religion can be practiced only as their leaders dictate. A man can be jailed in Afghanistan if his beard is not long enough.
The United States respects the people of Afghanistan. After all, we are currently its largest source of humanitarian aid; but we condemn |проклинаем| the Taliban regime. It is not only repressing its own people, it is threatening people everywhere by sponsoring and sheltering and supplying terrorists. By aiding and abetting |способствуя и подстрекая к