In the recorded message, bin Laden vows revenge for the crackdown on militants in Pakistan, and threatens violence on the American people.

VOA: standard.2009.06.03

And, in a similar point, he maintains that punishment can never be used as an instrument of revenge but only for what he calls the correction or what we would call the rehabilitation of the offender.

同时他还认为,法律上的惩罚是不能作为复仇的工具,而当作为纠正罪犯过错的工具,即我们今天叫的,对罪犯进行改造。

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The president did not refer to a new round of threats from the pirates, who say they want revenge for the killing of three of their own in the rescue operation.

VOA: standard.2009.04.13