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In responding to the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, America has entered into a new type of war, one fought in the shadows.
美国在对纽约和华盛顿遭受恐怖袭击作出反应之时，便进入了一种新型的战争，一种在暗中进行的战争。
Journey into the Shadows
Mark Hosenball, Michael Hirsh and Ron Moreau
1 It was the usual transatlantic flight: nine hours of fidgeting to get the pillow right, first-run movies flickering mutely on small screens, an indigestible flow of starchy food and drinks. Bound for Chicago from Zurich on the morning of May 8, the passengers of Swiss International Air Lines Flight 8 saw nothing amiss. Certainly they didn't know they were on the front lines of a global war being waged under their drooping eyes. But the crew knew it.
走向隐密
马克·霍森鲍尔 迈克尔·赫什 罗恩·莫罗
那是一次寻常的飞越大西洋的航班：整整9个小时头不停地在靠垫上移来移去，想枕得舒服些，小屏幕上首轮影片的无声镜头抖动着，多得无法消化的淀粉食物及饮料。5月8日上午，在从苏黎世飞往芝加哥的客机上，乘坐瑞士国际航空公司第8次航班的乘客没有丝毫异样感觉。当然，他们不知道，就在睡眼惺忪之际，自己竟处在了一场正在进行的全球战争的第一线。然而，机组人员是知道的。
2 They had been warned that a major terrorist suspect was scheduled to fly on the plane. And a scattering of very wakeful men in nearby seats knew it: a small squad of FBI agents and a separate team of Swiss Special Forces commandos, all carefully positioned around the suspect, all warily watching his every move. For nine hours.
他们接到警报，一个重要的恐怖分子嫌犯预定乘坐这架班机。散坐在近旁座位上那些高度警觉的人是知道的：那是一小队联邦调查局的特工人员和另一队瑞士特别部队的突击队员，他们被精心安排在嫌犯四周，密切监视其一举一动。整整9个小时。
3 (1) This airborne stakeout was directed at one Jose Padilla, otherwise known as Abdullah al-Muhajir, a Brooklyn-born street thug now identified by investigators as a would-be Qaeda terrorist. After moving mysteriously for a month from Karachi to Zurich to Cairo and back to Zurich -- the kind of city-hopping we've come to associate with a Qaeda plot -- Padilla was headed back to his homeland to cause havoc, or possibly just scout out a good target, U.S. authorities believe. Padilla was one of the band of foreign terrorists who, as the Taliban fell late last year, had escaped into Pakistan with Abu Zubaydah, a senior deputy to Osama bin Laden. (2) Tipped off by Zubaydah -- who was arrested in Pakistan in late March and has since been relentlessly interrogated in a top-secret location -- authorities had recently connected a fresh pair of very alarming dots: they had pieced Padilla's name together with vague allegations from Zubaydah about a "dirty bomb" plot, possibly aimed at Washington, D.C. Even so, the Feds were lucky. Though Padilla came to their attention back in March, U.S. intelligence officials say they did not realize how dangerous he was until weeks after he took off on his trip, and for more than a month they had no firm fix on his whereabouts. Only a last-minute search of itineraries of thousands of passengers known to be traveling toward the United States had turned up Padilla's name -- less than 48 hours before his flight to Chicago.
这一空中监控是针对一个叫何塞·帕迪拉，又名阿卜杜拉·阿勒·穆哈季尔的人，一个布鲁克林出生的街头流氓，调查人员认定他是潜在的基地组织的恐怖分子。一个月内，他诡密地出没在卡拉奇、苏黎世、开罗等城市，后又在苏黎世现身――这种在国际城市间飞来飞去的情况，我们常与基地组织的阴谋联系在一起――美国当局相信帕迪拉是要回国制造混乱，也可能仅仅是在寻找袭击目标。帕迪拉是国外恐怖组织的成员，塔利班去年底垮台后，他跟随本·拉登的高级副手阿卜·祖巴伊达窜逃至巴基斯坦。根据3月底在巴基斯坦被捕，并在一个高度机密的地点受到长时间严刑审讯的祖巴伊达提供的情况，当局近来将一组极其惊人的新的情况联系在一起：他们将帕迪拉的名字与祖巴伊达含糊提到的一项可能以华盛顿为攻击目标的脏弹计划联系在一起。即便如此，联邦调查局仍算侥幸。虽然帕迪拉自3月以来就引起了他们的注意，美国情报官员说他们直到他起程之后的几个星期里才意识到他是多么危险，在一个多月的时间内，他们不知道他的确切行踪。直到在对成千上万个前往美国的乘客的旅行路线进行最后一刻核查时才找到了帕迪拉的名字――这时离他登上前往芝加哥的班机不到48小时。
4 FBI bomb and hazardous-materials specialists had been deployed to O'Hare to await Padilla's arrival. But the landing at O'Hare International Airport at 1:30 p.m. was as uneventful as the plane ride. Once in, Padilla was whisked away to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, the high-rise federal prison a few blocks from Ground Zero.
于是联邦调查局炸弹及危险物品专家被派往奥海厄机场等候帕迪拉的到来。不过像整个飞行过程一样，下午1：30飞机在奥海厄国际机场降落时波澜不惊。一进汽车，帕迪拉就被风驰电掣般地押送至坐落在曼哈顿的大都会拘留中心，即距9·11事件现场仅几个街区之遥的高层联邦监狱。
5 WAR IN THE SHADOWS 隐密的战争
