Dissertativa 15 - Português e Inglês - IME 2006

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Police Debate if London Plotters Were Suicide Bombers, or Dupes

By Elaine Sciolino

And Don Van Natta Jr.

Published in the New York Times, July 27, 2005

 

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LONDON, July 26 – Within hours of the July 7 attacks here, many British police and intelligence officials assumed that the four bombers had intended to die with their bombs But in recent days, some police officials are increasingly considering the possibility that the men did not plan to commit suicide    (1.1)   .

Investigators raising doubts about the suicide assumption have cited evidence to support this theory. Each of the four men who died in the July 7 attacks purchased round-trip railway tickets from Luton to London. Germaine Lindsay’s rented a car, which was left in Luton,    (1.2)   . A large quantity of explosives were stored in the trunk of that car,    (1.3)   . Another bomber had just spent a large sum to repair his car. The men carried driver’s licenses    (1.4)   , unusual for suicide bombers. In addition, none left behind a note, videotape or Internet trail as suicide bombers have done in the past    (1.5)   .

While some of these clues could be seen as the work of men intent on covering their trail, some investigators increasingly believe that the men may have been conned into carrying the bombs onto the trains, leaving them,    (1.6)   .

There remains some evidence suggesting that these were suicide bombers, beyond the fact that all died in the blasts. Their bodies, all of which were recovered, were positioned in a way that led investigators to make a preliminary determination that these may have been suicide attacks. One of the remaining mysteries that neither camp can explain away is that the attacker on the bus died 57 minutes after the blasts on the trains;    (1.7)   . The bus bomber could support either theory. To further complicate the matter, there are conflicting witness accounts of the behavior of the July 21 attackers. Some fled after the bombs failed to explode;    (1.8)   .

The suicide question has major implications not only for the investigation, but also for the assessment of the terrorist threat that London faces. If the attacks were a suicide mission, they would be the first suicide bombings on European soil,    (1.9)   . Suicide could indicate a higher level of commitment and point to the existence within Britain of extremists willing to die for a cause. If the men were not suicide bombers, some of the most basic assumptions of the investigation would change. On one level, the idea makes the plot less ominous. It is much easier to recruit “mules” who will carry    (1.10)   . Several senior officials say a lively debate is under way within the investigation and wider intelligence circles. Some say the initial hypothesis that the July 7 attacks were carried out by determined fanatics willing to die in the name of a radical interpretation of Islam may have been too simplistic.

LISTAS DE FRASES A SEREM USADAS NA 1^a QUESTÃO:

(A) and could perhaps be used for another attack

(B) and were duped into dying

(C) and witnesses saw him putting his hand in the backpack

(D) and signal a dangerous new threat

(E) and other ID cards with them to their deaths

(F)  and the bombers’ families were baffled by what seemed to be their decisions to kill themselves

(G) and deposit explosives than people who are prepared to die

(H) and thinking they were going to explode minutes later

(I)   and at least one, on the bus, was said to have left the scene before the failed detonation

(J)  and had a seven-day parking sticker on the dashboard