08-25-06

安南对筹建驻黎维和部队有信心 (Annan Confident of Getting Peace-Keeping Troops for Lebanon)

联合国秘书长安南说，他相信，1万5千名维和部队不久就能进入黎巴嫩，监督以色列和真主党之间的停火。安南星期五在布鲁塞尔与欧盟外长举行会谈。安南在会谈前表示，他确信能够得到决议所要求的维和部队。

法国总统希拉克星期五说，维和部队不需要1万5千人。他说这个数字太大。法国星期四将出兵人数增加到了2000人。一批大约150人的法国部队星期五抵达黎巴嫩南部。

意大利表示愿意派遣多达3000人的部队。波兰和西班牙等另外一些欧洲国家预计也将做出派遣部队的承诺。目前仍然有待解决的问题是维和部队由谁来领导。法国表示愿意领导，但是意大利也表达了同样的意愿。星期五，有报纸消息说意大利官员提议分享指挥权。

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan says he is confident a 15-thousand-member peacekeeping force will deploy soon in Lebanon to oversee the cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah. Mr. Annan is meeting Friday in Brussels with European Union foreign ministers. He said ahead of that meeting that he feels certain he will get the required number of troops.

France's President Jacques Chirac said Friday that the peacekeeping force does not need 15-thousand troops. He called that number excessive. On Thursday, France boosted its troop commitment to two thousand. A contingent of about 150 French troops reached southern Lebanon Friday.

Italy has offered up to three-thousand troops. Several other European countries, including Poland and Spain, are expected to make a troop commitment. Still at issue is who will command the troops. France says it wants to take the lead but Italy does too. In newspaper interviews Friday, Italian officials proposed a shared command.

德国逮捕未遂恐怖袭击第三嫌疑人 (Third Suspect Arrested in Failed German Terror Plot)

德国警察逮捕了和上个月一起未遂恐怖事件有关的第三名嫌疑人。恐怖份子上个月阴谋炸毁两列客车。这名嫌疑人星期五在南部城市康斯坦茨被捕。调查人员说， 他们发现他和同案的第一名嫌疑人、现年21岁的约瑟夫.哈伊比有牵连。哈伊比上星期六在德国北部城市基尔被捕。

第二名嫌疑人、现年19岁的哈马德星期四在黎巴嫩北部的港口城市特里波利向警方自首。当局说，监视录像显示，前两名嫌疑人7月31号在科隆携带装有自制炸弹的手提箱登上火车。炸弹被放置到开往多尔特孟德和科布伦茨的火车上，但是没有爆炸。

Police in Germany have arrested a third suspect in connection with a failed terrorist plot to blow up two passenger trains last month. The man was detained Friday in the southern city of Konstanz. Investigators say they have linked him to 21-year-old Youssef Mohamad el Hajdib, the first suspect arrested in the case. El Hajdib was detained last Saturday in the northern German city of Kiel.

A second suspect, 19-year-old Jihad Hamad, surrendered to police Thursday in the northwestern Lebanese coastal city of Tripoli. Authorities say video surveillance cameras caught the first two suspects boarding trains in Cologne on July 31st and carrying suitcases packed with homemade bombs. The bombs were placed on trains bound for the cities of Dortmund and Koblenz, but they failed to explode.