Subject: Iraq

伊拉克

【1】campaign 戰役；運動；活動
【2】smuggler 走私者
【3】Baghdad 巴格達
【4】choke 抑制；壓住
【5】commander 指揮官；司令官
【6】insurgent 暴動者；叛亂者
【7】pivotal 中樞的；重要的
【8】crackdown 壓迫；鎮壓
【9】predominantly 佔優勢地；顯著地

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The U.S. military has launched a new air campaign against militant safe havens and weapons smugglers south of Baghdad as it seeks to choke the flow of bombs and weapons reaching Baghdad.

Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch also said he and other commanders feared insurgents would try to stage a massive attack ahead of a pivotal report due in mid-September to the U.S. Congress on political and military progress in Iraq.

The new operation is aimed at disrupting insurgents who fled a recent crackdown on the rural areas of Arab Jubour and Salman Pak in a predominantly Sunni area south of the capital.

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