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 Al 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 an 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 Hotel, where five were killed in a failed _______ attempt on then-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

5. Substitute the words in bold with their synonyms form the box:

go off, major, underground, blast, mount, detonate, zealot, abduct

. Plainclothes 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. 3. A radical Islamic group linked to the London bombings has launched a/an clandestine recruitment campaign aimed at Muslim youth in Sydney. 4. The Turkish police believe that a deadly bomb explosion in a seaside resort at the weekend was the work of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)¹. 5. The top Algerian diplomat in Iraq and a fellow envoy were kidnapped in Baghdad by insurgents battling to drive Muslim diplomats from the country. 6. A1 Qaeda's first coordinated bomb attacks on London's public transport which shocked Britain on July 7 were launched at the same time as the G8 summit in Scotland. Police say a man was carrying an explosive device in a sack when it exploded. 7. First came Bali, then Riyadh, Casablanca and Istanbul, then Madrid, Taba, London, and now, Sharm al-Sheikh, all sites in the past three years of large-scale terrorist attacks involving big bombs aimed at soft targets.

6. Insert prepositions where necessary:

1. Car bombs went ____ outside two hotels packed with European and Egyptian tourists. 2. The Irish Republican Army² declared an end Thursday to a З6-year campaign of violence against Britain that was aimed ___unifying Northern Ireland with the Irish Republic. 3. Police evacuate Shepherd's Bush tube station after an attempt to set ___ a bomb. 4. Police said the victim attracted their attention because he left a house that was ____surveillance. 5. The sun of the company's General Manager was abducted by unidentified criminals ___ ransom. 6. Pakistan on Monday denied the alleged involvement of Pakistanis ___the Egypt bombings. 7. A gang of racists launched a vicious hammer attack ___ two Asian men while shouting abuse about the London bombings. 8. On the 61st anniversary of the failed assassination attempt ___ Adolf Hitler's life, the German Government remembered the men and women of the military resistance. 9. The group issued a statement that it is not involved ____ any destabilization plot ____ the present government. 10. New details have emerged of the "ball-bearing" bombs designed by the 7 July terrorist cell, which aimed __ cause mass casualties.