NATO helicopters from Afghanistan intruded into northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, wounding two troops, officials said, prompting a protest from the military already seething over the secret U.S. operation to kill Osama bin Laden.
The military said it had sought a flag meeting with NATO commanders over the incursion in Pakistan's North Waziristan near the Afghan border which has been repeatedly targeted by U.S. drone aircraft as a hub of al Qaeda linked militants.
Relations between the U.S. and Pakistan have been pushed almost to the breaking point after the May 2 raid on Abbottabad that killed bin Laden, with Pakistan's parliament condemning the operation as a violation of the nation's sovereignty.
(Reuters, 17 May 2011)
vocabulary
| intruded | entered unlawfully |
| prompting | provoking |
| seething | extremely angry; resentful |
| a flag meeting | a military officials meeting between two border countries |
| incursion | sudden attack; raid |
| drone | an aircraft without a pilot, controlled from the ground |
| hub | centre; the most important place |
| militants | fighters; militant reformers |
| pushed | reached; affected |
| breaking point | point of greatest strain; verge of collapse; crisis; brink |
| condemning | criticizing; expressing very strong disapproval of |
Exercise
Fill in the blanks with the following words:
1. seething 2. condemned 3. intruded 4. hub 5. drone
1. By the end of the meeting he was . . . . . .
2. They . . . . . on our dinner party.
3. Pakistan condemns US . . . . . attacks.
4. The editor of the newspaper was . . . . . as lacking integrity.
5. The City of London is the . . . . . of Britain's financial world.
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