WASHINGTON — A new firsthand account of the Navy SEALs raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan last year contradicts the Obama administration’s previous descriptions of the mission, raising questions about whether the leader of Al Qaeda posed a clear threat to the commandos who fired on him.
华盛顿——奥萨玛·本·拉登(Osama bin Laden)在美国海豹突击队(Navy SEALs)去年的一次巴基斯坦突袭行动中被击毙。最新公布的第一手记录资料与奥巴马政府先前公布的任务过程相左，让人怀疑这名基地组织(Al Qaeda)领导人当时是否真的威胁到了那些射杀他的突击队员。
According to the account in the book, “No Easy Day, ” which will go on sale next week under the pseudonym Mark Owen, Bin Laden was shot in the head when he peered out of his bedroom door into a top-floor hallway of his compound as the SEALs rushed up a narrow stairwell toward him.
署名马克·欧文(Mark Owen)的《不易的一天》("No Easy Day")将在下周开始销售。根据该书中的一手记录资料，当本·拉登打开卧室门，向他住所的顶楼走廊窥视时，被在狭窄楼梯上向他冲来的海豹队员开枪击中头部。
The author, whom military officials have identified as Matt Bissonnette, 36, said he was directly behind the “point man, ” or lead commando, as the SEALs followed Bin Laden into the bedroom, where they found him collapsed on the floor at the foot of his bed with “blood and brains spilled out of the side of his skull, ” and two women wailing over his body that was “still twitching and convulsing.”
军方官员已认定此书作者是36岁的马特·比索内特(Matt Bissonnette)。他说自己当时就跟在“排头兵”（或称突击队先锋）之后。海豹队员们进入了本·拉登所在的卧室之后，看见他倒在床脚边的地板上，“血和脑浆从他头颅的一边涌出”，两个女人对着他“仍在抽搐”的身体放声痛哭。
The author said he and another member then trained their weapons on Bin Laden’s chest and fired several rounds, until he was motionless. The SEALs later found two unloaded weapons — an AK-47 rifle and a Makarov pistol — near the bedroom door.
作者说，他和另一名队员随后将他们武器的瞄准本·拉登的胸部又射击了几轮，直到他一动不动。海豹队员随后在卧室门边发现了两支未装弹的武器——一支AK-47步枪，和一支马卡洛夫手枪。
In the administration’s version of events after the raid, the lead commando’s shot in the stairwell missed, and the SEALs confronted Bin Laden in the bedroom, killing him with one shot to the chest and another above the left eye.
在此次事件的政府版本中，在突袭开始后，突击队先锋队员在楼梯上的那一枪射失了，海豹队员在卧室遭遇本·拉登，一枪打在胸部，另一枪打在左眼上方，将其击毙。
Military officials have said that the SEALs made split-second decisions, fearing that Bin Laden, even though unarmed, could have exploded a suicide vest or other booby trap.
军方官员一直称，海豹队员要在瞬间做出决定，他们担心本·拉登即使手无寸铁，也可能引爆自杀式背心或其他饵雷。
The Pentagon and the White House declined to comment on the new account, reflecting at least in part the administration’s reluctance to reopen an issue at a time when Republicans have accused the administration of exploiting the raid’s success to burnish President Obama’s national security credentials during his re-election campaign.
五角大楼和白宫拒绝对新信息作出评论，这至少在一定程度上反映了政府不愿在此时重提此事。目前，共和党人指责奥巴马政府在总统竞选连任的过程中，利用这次突袭的成功来粉饰他在国家安全领域的成就。
“We’re not going to confirm or deny his account, ” said Lt. Col. James Gregory, a Defense Department spokesman. Colonel Gregory said the department was still weighing disciplinary or legal action against the author.
“我们不会证实或否认他的消息，” 国防部发言人詹姆斯·格雷戈里(James Gregory)中校说道。格雷戈里中校还说，国防部还正在考虑，是否要对该书作者采取纪律或法律行动。
Elsewhere in the book, the author states that members of the SEALs unit were not “huge fans of Obama, ” although they respected the commander in chief for authorizing the operation. “We just got this guy re-elected, ” the author quotes another member of the unit, identified by the pseudonym Walt, as saying.
在该书其他部分，作者称海豹突击队的成员们并非“奥巴马的超级粉丝”，不过他们对这位最高指挥官下令执行该任务表示尊敬。“我们刚刚让这家伙成功连任了。”作者引用另一名成员的话写道，后者在书中化名沃尔特(Walt)。
In response to a crush of news media attention, criticism and consumer demand, Dutton, the imprint of Penguin that acquired the book in secret, said this week that it was moving up the book’s planned Sept. 11 release date by one week, to Tuesday. Demand for the 336-page book has been enormous; it is currently No. 1 on the best-seller lists at Amazon.com and BN.com.
面对众多新闻媒体的关注，各种批评以及消费需求，秘密收购了该书的出版商——企鹅出版集团(Penguin)旗下的达顿(Dutton)出版社在本周说，已将该书9月11日的发行日期，提前到下周二。这本336页书籍面临巨大的需求量，它目前在亚马逊(Amazon.com)和巴诺书店网站(BN.com)的畅销书排行榜上位列第一名。
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