4. Choose the word that best completes the sentence. ransom, to recruit, surveillance, to thwart, cell, explosives, assassination, to target, extortion 1. The Italian government approved a package of anti-terrorism measures that makes
it a specific crime to _____ and train people for terrorism.
2. An AI Qaeda's terror_______
has claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on the Egyptian tourist resort of Sharm el-
Sheikh that has killed at least 75 people.
3. The New York subways will get an extensive
network of _____cameras like the ones used in London in air effort to keep an eye
on suspicious behavior and terror attacks.
4. A 24-year-old man was arrested for allegedly
faking his own kidnapping and demanding $750 _____ from his mother.
5. London police
are hunting four bombers after three subway trains and a bus were targeted with _____ that
failed to detonate.
6. The group specializes in kidnapping foreign hostages, ____________
and bombings.
7. London and the surrounding areas have been _________ by terrorists
in the past, notably in the 1984 bombing of the Brighton Motel, where five were killed in
a failed ____ attempt on then-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
5. Substitute the words in bold with their synonyms from the box. go off, major, blast, mount, detonate, zealot, abduct 1. Plain clothes police chased the man onto an underground train fearing he was
carrying a bomb and was going to
set it off. 2. There's no end to the flow of
fanatic killers in
Iraq, and thus no clear victory is likely.
