Week 7 - Keywords： Canada's parliament attacked

Canada's parliament attacked, soldier fatally shot nearby

BY RANDALL PALMER AND DAVID LJUNGGREN

OTTAWA Wed Oct 22, 2014 7:38pm EDT

(Reuters) - A gunman attacked Canada's parliament on Wednesday, with gunfire erupting near where Prime Minister Stephen Harper was speaking, and a soldier was fatally shot at a nearby war memorial, stunning the Canadian capital.

The gunman in the parliament building was shot dead, and Harper was safely removed in incidents that may have been linked to Islamic militants.

Witness accounts indicated the man who shot dead the soldier guarding the National War Memorial in central Ottawa, went on to attack the parliament building minutes later. Canadian police said however they could not "at this point" confirm it was the same person.

The shootings followed an attack on two soldiers in Quebec on Monday carried out by a convert to Islam. Two U.S. officials said U.S. agencies had been advised the dead gunman in Wednesday's shootings was also a Canadian convert to Islam.

Witnesses said a flurry of shots were fired after a gunman entered the parliament building, pursued by police.

The assault took place very near the room where Harper was meeting with members of his Conservative party, a government minister said.

"PM (Harper) was addressing caucus, then a huge boom, followed by rat-a-tat shots. We all scattered. It was clearly right outside our caucus door," Treasury Board Minister Tony Clement told Reuters.

The incident, shocking in Canada's normally tranquil capital, began shortly before 10 a.m. ET and was not over late in the afternoon. Parliament and buildings in downtown remained on emergency lockdown at 6 p.m.

Canadian police were investigating a man named as Michael Zehaf-Bibeau as a possible suspect in the shootings, a source familiar with the matter said. U.S. government sources said the suspect was born Michael Joseph Hall but later changed his legal family name to Zehaf-Bibeau.

Security in Ottawa came under criticism after the gunman was able to run through the unlocked front door of the main parliament building. Police said an operation was under way to make parliament safe.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/22/us-canada-attacks-shooting-idUSKCN0IB1PY20141022

Structure of the Lead：

WHO- a Canada soldier, congressmen, a gunman

WHEN- Wed Oct 22, 2014

WHAT- a Canada soldier was shot to dead by a gunman, the gunman then ran to the parliament attacked Canada's parliament.

WHY- not even know, but the gunman seems to a Canadian convert to Islam.

WHERE- Canada parliament

HOW- shooting

Keywords：

1. parliament：議會、國會

2. National War Memorial：戰爭紀念館

3. Islamic militants：伊斯蘭武裝份子

4. guarding：守衛 (v.)

5. convert：皈依、轉而信奉（指宗教）

6. assault：突擊 (n.)

7. caucus：預備會議 (n.)

Week 6 - Meeting Western Jihadists of ISIS

Meeting Western Jihadists of ISIS

By Atika Shubert and Bharati Naik ,CNN
September 2, 2014, 12:03 am TWN

Before we begin our interview with two foreign fighters in Syria, our camera captures them both adjusting the scarves masking their faces. One of them carefully positions an AK-47 between them.

We have interviewed them before, but telling which masked militant is which isn't easy. With unintended comedy they reintroduce themselves by their jihadi names: Abu Bakr and Abu Anwar. They say they are in Northern Syria, at what appears to be an Internet cafe.

We began reaching out to jihadi fighters in Syria online about a year ago. Abu Bakr was open to talking with us and he gradually agreed to bring other fighters to do an on-camera interview. A process made tougher as they change locations every couple of months.

Abu Bakr won't tell us where he is from, but Abu Anwar is British. “I'm from the South of England. I grew up in a middle class family. Life was easy back home. I had a life. I had a car. But the thing is: You cannot practice Islam back home.” He told us, “We see all around us evil. We see pedophiles. We see homosexuality. We see crime. We see rape. And we can't do anything about it because we are obeying by the laws of the kuffar.”

Initially, both fighters came to Syria to join the rebel alliance against the regime of Bashar al Assad. But they now believe that establishing an Islamic caliphate is more important.

When we asked Abu Anwar what message he had for friends back home it was a call to join the fight: “Leave the lands of infidelity and leave for the lands of Islam. We have an Islamic state in Raqa. Alhamdulillah now in Iraq. And I ask all my Muslim friends to make hijrah to these Islamic states.”

In all our conversations, both are unfailingly polite. They patiently answer our questions, determined for us to see their point of view: For them, America is an immoral country at war with Muslims.

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/commentary/the-china-post/special-to-the-china-post/2014/09/02/416281/Meeting-Western.htm

Structure of the Lead：

WHO- Western Jihadists of ISIS

WHEN- September 2, 2014

WHAT- Two reporter interview two foreign fighters in Syria

WHY- They want to know about ISIS and jihadi.

WHERE- Not give

HOW- By camera

Keywords：

1. scarves masking ：面紗

2. unintended：意外

3. British：英國人

4. pedophiles：戀童僻者

5. homosexuality：同性戀.

6. alliance：反叛聯盟

7. regime：政權

8. caliphate：哈里發

Week 5 - Nigeria girls kidnapped

Outrage grows two weeks after Nigeria girls kidnapped

RETURN OUR DAUGHTERS:A group called Women for Peace and Justice has organized a march to demand that more resources be committed to securing the girls’ release

AFP, KANO, Nigeria

Protesters were to hold a “million-woman march” in the Nigerian capital yesterday over the government’s failure to rescue scores of schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram Islamists two weeks ago.

Angry Nigerian parents lashed out at the government on Tuesday as a local leader claimed the hostages had been sold as wives abroad.

“May God curse every one of those who has failed to free our girls,” said Enoch Mark, whose daughter and two nieces were among the more than 100 students abducted from the Government Girls Secondary School in the Chibok area of the northeastern state of Borno.

The attack was one of the most shocking in Boko Haram’s five-year uprising, which has claimed thousands of lives across northern and central Nigeria.

The outrage that followed the mass abduction has been compounded by disputes over how many girls were seized and criticism of the military’s search-and-rescue effort.

Borno officials have said 129 girls were kidnapped when gunmen stormed the school after sundown on April 14 and forced the students — who are between 12 and 17 years old — onto a convoy of trucks. Officials said 52 have since escaped.

Locals, including the school principal, have rejected those numbers, insisting that 230 students were snatched and that 187 are still being held hostage.

Mark said that his wife has hardly slept since the attack, lying awake at night “thinking about our daughter.”

An organization called Women for Peace and Justice has called for a “million-woman protest march” in the capital, Abuja, yesterday to demand that more resources be committed to securing the girls’ release.

Pogo Bitrus, leader of a Chibok elders group, said that locals had been tracking the movements of the hostages with the help of “various sources” across the northeast.

“From the information we received yesterday from Cameroonian border towns our abducted girls were taken ... into Chad and Cameroon,” he said.

The girls were then sold as brides to Islamist fighters for 2,000 naira (US$12) each, Bitrus added.

There was however no independent confirmation of his report and the Nigerian ministry of defense did not immediately answer calls seeking comment.

Some of the students who escaped have said the hostages were taken to Borno’s Sambisa Forest area, where Boko Haram has well-fortified camps.

Locals have scoured the bushlands of the remote region, pooling money to buy fuel for motorcycles and cars to conduct their own rescue effort, saying they have no confidence in the military’s search.

Dozens of Borno women clad in black staged a protest on Tuesday in front of Nigeria’s parliament.

The placard-carrying women rolled on the ground wailing and crying for help to rescue their daughters.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2014/05/01/2003589329

Structure of the Lead：

WHO- Nigeria girls

WHEN- April 14, 2014

WHAT- million-women go on the demo in the Nigerian capital.

WHY- the government unable to rescue scores of schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram Islamists

WHERE- Nigeria

HOW- go on the demo

Keywords：

1. lashed out：怒斥

2. hostages：人質

3. abduction：綁架

4. compounded：加劇

5. seized：查獲

6. stormed：衝進

7. confirmation：確認

8. parliament：議會

9. placard：標語牌

10. wailing：大哭