Reports that al-Qaida-trained operatives may be poised to attack American commercial and passenger vessels in the Arabian Sea are being widely circulated in Arab-speaking Gulf states, including Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and United Arab Emirates. Western intelligence officials have reportedly urged each country to boost security measures and to provide better protection for ships, especially oil and gas tankers.
关于基地组织训练的行动人员可能正准备在阿拉伯海袭击美国商船和客船的报导正在说阿拉伯语的波斯湾国家内广为流传，这些国家包括科威特、巴林、卡塔尔和阿拉伯联合酋长国。据报导，西方国家情报官员已敦促各自的国家加强安全措施，并且为船只提供更好的保护，尤其是要保护油船和运送天然气的船只。
On Thursday, a Kuwaiti newspaper, al-Qabas, said unnamed Kuwaiti security sources confirmed that al-Qaida has regrouped in the region in recent months, thanks largely to the deteriorating security in Somalia and Yemen.
星期四，科威特的一份报纸科威特日报说，不愿透露姓名的科威特安全部门消息来源证实，基地组织近几个月来在该地区重整旗鼓，主要原因是索马里和也门的安全形势恶化。
Both countries are home to militant anti-West insurgent groups that have publicly claimed allegiance to al-Qaida. 这两个国家都是激进分子和反西方叛乱集团的大本营，这些集团公开承认与基地组织联合。 The group in Yemen, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, is believed to have ties with Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a U.S. passenger jet on December 25.
据信，在也门的一个叛乱集团，即阿拉伯半岛基地组织分支，与被控企图在12月25号炸毁一架美国客机的尼日利亚人阿卜杜尔穆塔拉布有关连。
Al-Qaida has targeted the U.S. Navy in the past. In 2001, al-Qaida boasted that it had carried out the October 2000 bombing of USS Cole while the destroyer was refueling at a port in southern Yemen. The blast killed 17 sailors and wounded 39 others.
基地组织过去也曾把美国海军作为攻击目标。2001年基地组织夸口发动了2000年10月爆炸美国海军舰只“科尔号”的行动，当时这艘驱逐舰正在也门南部一个港口加油。那次爆炸造成17名海员丧生，另外39人受伤。作者: 雨落风残 时间: 2011-7-24 11:40
