2. What was seen as the biggest threat once the Soviets pulled out of Afghanistan?
(a) Dictatorship.
(b) Nuclear capability.
(c) Terrorism.
(d) Radical Islam.

3. The CIA-sponsored rebels were facing what type of constant Soviet attacks in 1986?
(a) Helicopter.
(b) Missile.
(c) Mortar.
(d) Tank.

4. Schroen said the U.S., which left Afghanistan when the Soviet Union dissolved, would return for what reason?
(a) Terrorism.
(b) Religious conflict.
(c) Civil war.
(d) Political unrest.

5. The CIA and ISI planned another offensive to build the strength of Massoud and other rebel leaders that called for them to take Kabul in which winter?
(a) 1990-1991.
(b) 1988-1989.
(c) 1987-1988.
(d) 1989-1990.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was President Zia killed?

2. What term did Paul Pillar, a chief analyst at the CIA Counterterrorist Center, use when he described individuals like Yousef?

3. Bin Laden was sponsoring jihad in Communist Yemen and opposed the Saudi government when they allowed American troops in to liberate which nation?

4. When was the ISI captured and sold a Russian SU-25 to the CIA?

5. Benazir Bhutto told America it would bring peace to the nation, but did not tell them about aid to the Taliban from where?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Peter Tomsen's role differ when he took over the position Ed McWilliams held in late 1989?

2. How was Yuri Andropov introduced in Ghost Wars?

3. How were the Panjshiris seen by 1994?

4. How did Chapter 1 open for William Putscher?

5. How did the Prologue to Ghost Wars open?

6. How was it, as related in Chapter 9, that the Pakistani ISI allied with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar as a means of isolating and defeating rival commanders about Kabul?

7. What weapons systems did the CIA Afghan program provide in late 1985?

8. How were the rebels trained to clear Soviet-laid minefields around Jalalabad?

9. How had the city of Peshawar evolved by late 1986?

10. Why did the CIA Islamabad station hold a cautious view of Massoud as related in Chapter 8?

(see the answer keys)

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