Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden,… Short Question Test Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Prologue, Chapters 1-2

1. Gary Schroen, a CIA agent, met with Ahmed Shah Massoud, who was what?

Former Afghan defense minister.

2. The CIA fed what to Massoud's organization during the war with the Soviet Union?

Large amounts of money .

3. In what year did the Taliban form?

1994.

4. What was the Taliban trying to clear Afghanistan of?

Warlords.

5. By 1996, Massoud's popularity stood where?

Waning.

6. Schroen said the U.S., which left Afghanistan when the Soviet Union dissolved, would return for what reason?

Terrorism.

7. When did riots in Islamabad and an attack on the U.S. embassy take place?

21 November 1979.

8. The U.S. embassy attack was coordinated by a radical group at which university?

Quaid-I-Azam University.

9. Most embassy personnel in Islamabad awaited military dictator Mohammed Zia-ul-Haq's help, but he was doing what?

Bike riding.

10. When did the Islamic...
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