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Deck 28: Terrorism Flashcards

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Un terroriste

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A terrorist

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Un complot terroriste

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A terrorist plot

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Préparer un attentât

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To plot an attack

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Une conspiration, un complot

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A conspiracy

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Un comploteur

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A plotter

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Un attentât (terroriste)

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A terrorist attack

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Un attentât à la bombe

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A bomb attack, a bombing

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Une tentative d’attentats

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An attempted bomb attack

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Un attentât manqué

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A failed bomb attack

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Une vague d’attentâts

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A spate of bombings

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Faire exploser un bâtiment

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To carry out a bomb attack on a building

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Perpétrer un attentat

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To perpretrate a terrorist attack

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L’auteur d’un attentât

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The perpretrator of an attack

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Plastiquer, faire sauter un bâtiment

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To blow up a building

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La cible d’un attentât

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The target of an attack

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Viser, avoir pour cible une ambassade

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To target an embassy

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Une organisation terroriste

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A terrorist organization

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Le terrorisme “d’origine intérieure “

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Homegrown terrorism

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Revendiquer un attentât

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To claim responsibility for an attack

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Une menace

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A threat

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Menacer

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To threaten

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Céder à une menace

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To give in to a threat, to yield to a threat

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Exécuter une menace

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To carry out a threat

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Terroriser

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To terrorize

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Faire peur aux gens
To scare, to frighten people
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Terrorisme psychologique
Scare tactics
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Le chantage
Blackmail
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Faire chanter qqn
To blackmail sb
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Forcer qqn à faire qqch par le chantage
To blackmail sb into doing sth
30
Intimider qqn
To intimidate sb
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La violence aveugle
Indiscriminate violence
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Avoir recours à la violence
To resort to violence
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Le recours à la violence
Resorting to violence
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La panique
Panic
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Paniquer
To panic (panicked,panicking)
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Semer la peur / la terreur / la panique
To sow fear / terror / panic
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La psychose
Obsessive fear
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Le 11 septembre
9/11
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Un kamikaze
A suicide bomber
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Se suicider
To commit a suicide, kill oneself
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Poser une bombe
To plant a bomb
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Faire exploser une bombe
To detonate, to set off a bomb
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Exploser
To go off, to explode
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Un engin explosif
An explosive device
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Un explosif
An explosive
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Le plastique
Plastic explosive
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Le semtex
Semtex
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Un mélange détonant, un mélange explosif
An explosive mixture
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Une bombe à retardement
A time bomb
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Une lettre piégée
A letter bomb
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Un objet piégé
A booby trap
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Une voiture piégée
A car bomb
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Auteur d’un attentât à la voiture piégée
A car bomber
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Désamorcer une bombe
To defuse a bomb
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La guerre contre le terrorisme
The war on terror
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Le contre-terrorisme
Counterterrorism
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La lutte antiterroriste
The battle, the fight against terrorism
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S’attaquer au terrorisme
To tackle terrorism
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Combattre, lutter contre le terrorisme
To combat, to fight, to struggle against terrorism
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Faire échouer un complot
To thwart a plot
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Déjouer, faire échouer un attentât
To foil a terrorist attack
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Démanteler un réseau terroriste
To dismantle a terrorist network
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Éradiquer le terrorisme
To eradicate terrorism
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Le renseignement
Intelligence
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Un service de renseignement
An intelligence agency
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Extrader un suspect
To extradite a suspect
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Un fanatique
A fanatic, a zealot
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Le fanatisme
Fanaticism
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Un intégriste
A fundamentalist
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L’intégrisme
Fundamentalism
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Le sectarisme
Bigotry
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Un extrémiste
An extremist
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L’axe du mal
The Axis of Evil
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Un État-voyou
A rogue state
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Soutenir le terrorisme
To sponsor terrorism
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Héberger, abriter des terroristes
To harbour terrorists
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Encourager la violence
To foster violence
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Détournement d’avion
Hijacking
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Détourner un avion
To hijack a plane
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Un pirate de l’air
A hijacker
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Une victime
A casualty, a victim
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L’attentât a fait trois victimes
Three people were killed in the attack
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Être blessé
To be injured
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Être mutilé
To be maimed
85
Le nombre de victime
The death toll
86
Un massacre
A slaughter, a massacre
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Un carnage
Carnage
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Une effusion de sang, un massacre
Bloodshed
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Intercepter un massage
To intercept a massage
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Surveiller les appels téléphoniques
To monitor phone calls
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Transfert illégal de détenus vers des prisons où ils peuvent être torturés
Extraordinary rendition
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Simulation de noyade
Waterboarding
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Une menace d’attentat à la bombe
A bomb threat
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Une alerte à la bombe
A bomb scare
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Une fausse alerte à la bombe
A bomb hoax
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Mesures de sécurité
Security measures
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Renforcer les mesures de sécurité
To tighten security
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Un site sensible
A vulnerable site
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Un otage
A hostage
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Prendre / retenir qqn en otage
To take / to hold sb hostage
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Être pris en otage
To be taken hostage
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Libérer, relâcher un otage
To free, to release a hostage
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Kidnapper, enlever qqn
To abduct sb, to kidnap sb
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Un enlèvement, un kidnapping, un rapt
An abduction, a kidnapping
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Un ravisseur, un preneur d’otage
A hostage-taker, an abductor, a kidnapper, a captor
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Une rançon
A ransom
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Négocier
To negotiate
108
Un fléau
A curse, a plague, a scourge
109
Le terrorisme n’est pas près de disparaître
Terrorism is here to stay

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