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It's been a day of violence in Iraq with militants launching attacks both inside and outside Baghdad. North of the capital a suicide bomber drove a fuel tanker into an Iraqi army barracks in Mosel. Thirteen soldiers died in the massive explosion. Elsewhere a roadside bomb killed 5 soldiers in the city of xxx. While in southern Baghdad gunmen open fire on a crowded market, killing at least six people. Earlier rockets were fired into central Baghdad heavily defended green zone.
We don't know who is responsible for these incidents. Motor attacks on the green zone are quite common and sometimes blamed on ____ of the biggest of the Shiite militias, the Mahdi Army, who ignored their leader's order to cease fire. Senior US military officers say the number of high-profile insurgent attacks, like the one in Mosel, is creeping upwards ,even as the overall number of attacks continues to decline.

American and Afghan forces have carried out a big ground and air operation against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan. The Afghan government spoke of dozens of Taliban being killed, including a well-known commander.

A joint patrol of Afghan and American troops was ambushed by insurgents in the xxx district of xxx province, which neighbours xxx and Kandahar, in the rest of South of the country. A statement from US forces said they were attacked by small arms fire and rocked propelled grenades, an that in a return of fire more than a dozen insurgents were killed. The province is under the command of Dutch forces, but has a strong American presence. The US troops, working under Operation Enduring Freedom and outside the remit of NATO, brought in air strikes to target the insurgent positions.

President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan has pledged his full support to the incoming coalition government consisting of his political opponents. Mr. Musharraf said a new era of democracy was beginning, and he felt proud to have put his homeland on the path of progress.

The American vice-president Dick Cheney, speaking after talks in the West Bank with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said the establishment of a Palestinian state is long overdue, but it will depend on painful concessions by the Israelis and Palestinians.

Dick Cheney said that future belonged to Israeli and Palestinian advocates of peace. He said it was extremists that were damaging hopes, referring to rockets fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip. President Abbas himself criticised the militants but pointed a finger too at Israel, saying peace couldn't be achieved with continued illegal settlement building, movement restrictions, and ____ killings by the Israeli army. Palestinian negotiators have been critical of the perceived lack of American pressure on Israel to make any concessions. They would ____ little ____ Mr Cheney to convince them that's going to change.

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launch attacks
drive ... into ...
a massive explosion
open fire on => fire on => fire into
heavily defended ...

be responsible for
be blamed on sb.
even as
creep upwards => decline

carry out a big ground and air operation against ...
spoke of ... being killed

small arms fire
rocked propelled grenades
in a return of fire
under the command of ...
have a strong ... presence
outside the remit of ... =>作为回应，卡伯恩先生说收购行动并没有违反公司法，阻止这个就超出了他的部门的职能范围。In response, Mr Caborn said the takeover did not break company law and was outside the remit of his department.

pledge one's full support to ...
consist of ...
put ... on the path of ...

... is long overdue.
depend on ...(eg. painful concessions)

criticise sb. 谴责某人
point a finger at ...
be critical of sth. 对某事表示谴责
the(a) perceived lack of ... pressure on ...