Hostage 1. a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge that promises

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BESLAN.

SIGNIFICANT TERRORIST ACTS.

UNIT 4

If you are a terror to many, then beware of many.

Ausonius

Basic concepts:

will be kept or terms met by the other party.

hostility 1. deep –seated usu. mutual ill will.

2.conflict, opposition or resistance in thought or principle.

victim 1. one that is acted on or usu. adversely affected by a force of agent.

2. one that is injured , destroyed or sacrificed under any of various

conditions.

3. one that is subjected to oppress, hardship or mistreatment.

Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary

Discussion:

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

Jacques Chirac

PRE – TEXT EXERCISES:

I. Practice the pronunciation of the following words:

Bloodbath, climax, siege, militants, munitions, apparently, threatening, ensuing, doubt, pagan, Muslim, martyrdom, immediately, weapon, rebellious, succeeding, reigns, seizure, moderate, appropriately, unprecedented, surrendering, compatriots, threats, unleash, fratricidal, reconciled, juicy morsel, authorities, ordeals, hastened, lather, to acquiesce, penalties, severity, corollary, disposal, appalling, consequences, accomplices, presumption, era, abyss, anguish, envoy, minority, exclusive, reprehensible, interior, fiercer, suicide, withdrawal, presumably, failure, maneuver, exhausted.

II. Practice the pronunciation of the following proper and geographical names:

North Ossetia, Beslan, Chechnya, al-Qaeda, Ingushetia, Caucasus, Russia, Sean McGough,Israeli, Karabackh, Dniester, Europe, Major Sultan Gurazhev, Ichkeria, Nur-Pashi Kulayev, Magomet Yevloyev, Mairbek Shaybekkhanov, Shamil Basayev, Doku Umarov, Major Sultan Gurazhev, North Caucasian.