全民共憤,美國警方全力搜查爆炸案線索
Federal and local police in Boston are undertaking a painstaking examination of video images and photographs from the site of Monday’s attack, which Barack Obama described as “an act of terror”.
美國聯邦及波士頓當地警察正在認真檢查星期一波士頓爆炸案的視頻畫面和照片。巴拉克•奧巴馬(Barack Obama)稱這次爆炸案是“恐怖主義行爲”。Police appealed for witnesses to send in any images they had of the area around the finishing line of the Boston marathon, as they hunker down for what could be a long and difficult investigation.
警方呼籲目擊者提交在波士頓馬拉松終點線周圍區域拍下的任何畫面。警方正在着手調查這起可能漫長而艱難的案件。In a brief comment yesterday the president said the authorities still did not have “a sense of motive” for what he called “a heinous and cowardly act”. The police did not know whether the two bombs were the work of foreign or domestic terrorists or “a malevolent individual”.
昨日美國總統在簡短的評論中表示，當局對作案動機仍無把握，他稱這次爆炸案是“既十惡不赦又懦夫般的行爲”。警方不知道兩起爆炸案是外國恐怖分子還是國內恐怖分子，亦或是“惡毒的個人”所爲。
Boston police said 176 people were injured by the two explosions, which took place within about 20 seconds of each other on Monday afternoon, with 17 people in critical condition. Three people died, including Martin Richard, an eight-year-old boy.
波士頓警方表示，兩起爆炸導致176人受傷。這兩起爆炸發生在週一下午，前後相距約20秒鐘。17名傷者傷勢嚴重。已有3人死亡，包括8歲男孩馬丁•理查德(Martin Richard)。Police said no other unexploded devices had been found, contrary to reports.
警方表示，沒有發現其他未爆炸的設備，這與媒體報道的說法相反。In an indication of the skittish atmosphere engendered by potential further security threats, an aircraft at Logan airport in Boston was held on the ground while two passengers were removed for unspecified reasons, and a section of New York’s LaGuardia airport was evacuated over a suspicious package.
波士頓洛根機場(Logan Airport)的一架飛機被扣留在地面，機上兩名乘客被帶走，原因未知。紐約拉瓜迪亞機場(LaGuardia Airport)的一個區域因一件可疑包裹而疏散。這些跡象都表明，潛在的進一步安全威脅引發了不安定氣氛。Despite the huge investments in security since the 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, security officials said the Boston marathon bombings appeared to exploit the most vulnerable possible situation: a low-tech device left at an open event that attracts tens of thousands of visitors across a large part of the city.
儘管自2001年紐約和華盛頓遭到恐怖襲擊以後，美國投入重資加強安全，但安全官員表示，波士頓馬拉松爆炸案似乎利用了可能存在的最爲脆弱的情形：在吸引數萬觀衆、範圍覆蓋市內大片區域的公開活動上，放置低科技的爆炸裝置。The initial details from the attacks gave only small clues to potential suspects, according to security experts, although the FBI said it was pursuing a number of leads.
安全專家指出，最初的襲擊細節只透露出有關潛在嫌疑人的細小線索，儘管美國聯邦調查局(FBI)表示正在追查數條線索。“It is very early to say, but the fact this took place on tax [filing] day and was a low-tech device seems to suggest it could be someone other than a conventional al-Qaeda attack,” said Juan Carlos Zarate, a former deputy national security adviser now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. During the past decade, Islamist terrorist groups had been eager to claim responsibility for attacks, he said. “We might have to get used to the idea that it could take weeks or even months” to solve the case, he said.
前副國家安全顧問、現就職於華盛頓國際戰略研究中心(Center for Strategic and International Studies, CSIS)的胡安•卡洛斯•薩拉特(Juan Carlos Zarate)表示：“現在得出結論爲時尚早，但這起事件發生在報稅截止日，而且裝置的技術含量低，似乎表明本案可能不同於傳統的基地組織(al-Qaeda)襲擊。”他表示，過去10年間，伊斯蘭恐怖組織急於聲稱對襲擊事件負責。他指出，“我們可能要習慣於，要花上數週甚至數個月的時間”才能偵破此案。
