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Le terrorisme

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Terrorism

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La guerre contre Le terrorisme

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The war on terror

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Un terroriste

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A terrorist

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Un complot terroriste

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A terrorist plot

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Préparer un attentat

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To plot an attack

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Une conspiration

Un complot

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A conspiracy

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Un comploteur

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A plotter

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Un attentat (terroriste)

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A terrorist attack

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Un attentat à la bombe

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A bomb attack

A bombing

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Une tentative d’attentat

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An attempted bomb attack

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Un attentat manqué

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A failed bomb attack

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Une vague d’attentats

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A spate of bombings

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Faire exploser un bâtiment

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To carry out a bomb attack on a building

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Perpétuer un attentat

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To perpetrate a terrorist attack

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L’auteur d’un attentat

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The perpetrator of an attack

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Plastiquer un bâtiment

Faire sauter un bâtiment

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To blow up a building

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La cible d’un attentat

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The target of an attack

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Viser une ambassade

Avoir pour cible une ambassade

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To target an embassy

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When and where were the word terrorism coined ?

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In France in the days of the Terror (1793-94)

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Who has been described as “terrorists”?

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  • Jewish Zionist militants fighting the British in Palestine in the 1940s
  • Used by the German to refer to resistance fighters in France
  • The “Freedom fighters” during decolonisation
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Une organisation terroriste

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A terrorist organization

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Le terrorisme “d’origine intérieure”

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Homegrown terrorism

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Revendiquer un attentat

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To claim responsibility for an attack

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Une menace

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A threat

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Menacer

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To threaten

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Céder a une menace

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To give in to a threat

To yield to a threat

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Exécuter une menace

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To carry out a threat

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Terroriser

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To terrorize

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Faire peur aux gens

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To scare people

To frighten people

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Terrorisme psychologique

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Scare tactics

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Le chantage

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Blackmail

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Faire chanter quelqu’un

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To blackmail somebody

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Forcer quelqu’un à faire quelque chose par le chantage

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To blackmail somebody into doing something

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Intimider quelqu’un

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To intimidate somebody

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La violence aveugle

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Indiscriminate violence

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Avoir recours à la violence

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To resort to violence

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Le recours à la violence

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Resorting to violence

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Semer la terreur

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To sow fear

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La psychose

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Obsessive fear

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La panique

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Panic

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Paniquer

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To panic

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Le 11 septembre

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09/11

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Un kamikaze

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A suicide bomber

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Se suicider

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To commit suicide

To kill oneself

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Poser une bombe

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To plant a bomb

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Exploser

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To go off

To explode

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How is 9/11 pronounced ?

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“Nine-eleven”

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Détourner

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To hijack

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Un engin explosif

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An explosive device

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Un explosif

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An explosive

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Le plastique

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Plastic explosive

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Le semtex

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Semtex

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Un mélange détonant

Un mélange explosif

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An explosive mixture

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Une bombe à retardement

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A time bomb

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Une lettre piégée

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A letter bomb

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Un objet piégé

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A booby trap

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Une voiture piégée

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A car bomb

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Auteur d’un attentat à la voiture piégée

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A car bomber

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Désamorcer une bombe

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To defuse a bomb

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Services chargés de faire respecter la loi

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Law enforcement agencies

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Dossiers

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Records

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How did the US react to 9/11?

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The US adopted the Patriot Act on October 26, 2001

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What is the Patriot Act (October 26, 2001) ?

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It gives law enforcement agencies greater powers to search telephone and e-mail communications as well as other records
It gives the authorities the right to detain and deport immigrants suspected of terrorism-related acts

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La guerre contre le terrorisme

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The war on terror

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Le contre-terrorisme

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Counterterrorism

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La lutte antiterroriste

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The battle against terrorism

The fight against terrorism

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S’attaquer au terrorisme

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To tackle terrorism

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Combattre le terrorisme

Lutter contre le terrorisme

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To combat terrorism
To fight terrorism
Tu struggle against terrorism

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Faire échouer un complot

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To thwart a plot

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Déjouer un attentat

Faire échouer un attentat

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To fool a terrorist attack

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Démanteler un réseau terroriste

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To dismantle a terrorist network

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Éradiquer le terrorisme

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To eradicate terrorism

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Le renseignement

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Intelligence

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Un service de renseignement

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An intelligence agency

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Extrader un suspect

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To extradite a suspect

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Secte

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Cult

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Gaz neurotoxique

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Nerve gas

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What happened in Oklahoma in 1995?

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Timothy McVeigh, a young white American, killed 168 people by blowing up a government building
Because he hated the American government

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What happened in Tokyo in 1995 ?

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An apocalyptic cult called Aum Shirinkyo released nerve gas on the Tokyo subway in order to precipitate the end of the world

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Un fanatique

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A fanatic

A zealot

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Le fanatisme

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Fanaticism

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Un intégriste

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A fundamentalist

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L’intégrisme

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Fundamentalism

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Le sectarisme

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Bigotry

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Un extrémiste

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An extremist

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L’axe du mal

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The axis of Evil

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Un État-voyou

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A rogue state

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Soutenir le terrorisme

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To sponsor terrorism

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Héberger des terroristes

Abriter des terroristes

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To harbour terrorists

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Encourager la violence

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To foster violence

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CIA

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The Central Intelligence Agency

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What is the CIA?

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The main US government agency in charge of anti-terrorism activities
External security

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FBI

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation

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What is the FBI?

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An agency whose role is to protect the US against terrorist threats on US territory

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Détournement d’avion

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Hijacking

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Détourner un avion

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To hijack a plane

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Un pirate de l’air

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A hijacker

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Renforcement

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Tightening

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Une victime

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A casualty

A victim

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L’attentat à fait 3 victimes

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Three people were killed in the attack

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Etre blessé

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To be injured

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Etre mutilé

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To be maimed

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Le nombre de victimes

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The death toll

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Un massacre

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A slaughter

A massacre

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Un carnage

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Carnage

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Une effusion de sang

Un massacre

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Bloodshed

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What is the Navy base in Guantanamo used for since 2002?

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  • detention camp by the US government to hold suspected terrorists arrested in various parts of the world
  • Detainees are denied protection stipulated in the Geneva conventions
  • The use of torture is common in the camp
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Intercepter un message

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To intercept a message

109
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Surveiller les appels téléphoniques

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To monitor phone call

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Transfert illégal de détenus vers des prisons où ils peuvent être torturés

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Extraordinary rendition

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Simulation de noyade

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Waterboarding

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Une menace d’attentat à la bombe

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A bomb threat

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Une alerte à la bombe

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A bomb scare

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Une fausse alerte à la bombe

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A bomb hoax

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Mesures de sécurité

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Security measures

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Renforcer les mesures de sécurité

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To tighten security

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Un site sensible

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A vulnerable site

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Un otage

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A hostage

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Prendre quelqu’un en otage

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To take somebody hostage

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Retenir quelqu’un en otage

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To hold somebody hostage

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Etre pris en otage

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To be taken hostage

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Libérer un otage

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To free a hostage

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Relâcher un otage

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To release a hostage

124
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Kidnapper quelqu’un

Enlever quelqu’un

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To abduct somebody

To kidnap somebody

125
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Un enlèvement
Un kidnapping
Un rapt

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An abduction

A kidnapping

126
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Un ravisseur

Un preneur d’otage

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A hostage-taker
An abductor
A kidnapper
A captor

127
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Une rançon

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A ransom

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Négocier

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To negotiate

129
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Un fléau

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A curse
A plague
A scourge

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Le terrorisme n’est pas près de disparaître

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Terrorism is here to stay

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