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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who met Mahmoud Ahmed in the spring of 2001 and advised Pakistan could do much more in the fight with bin Laden?

2. In 2000, the White House counterterrorism head asked which acquaintance to address the bin Laden intelligence problem?

3. Shortly into 2000, the Counterterrorist Center picked up information that bin Laden had arrived in what location?

4. Tenet's reform program for the CIA did what?

5. Who headed the Pakistani army from 1998 to 1999?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did John Deutch become the CIA chief?

2. How had the U.S. intelligence arms switched their focus by 1998?

3. What support did CIA field operatives reportedly seek from the White House team of Richard Clarke?

4. How had persistent Feminist Majority lobbying in opposition to the Taliban influenced the two most significant women in Clinton's administration?

5. What was the view of CIA staff members regarding Cofer Black's enthusiastic view for armed Predator drones?

6. What was part of the problem when Bush came into office in 2001?

7. Why were Clarke and his counter-terrorism group at the White House frustrated by late spring in 2000?

8. How was bin Laden described as having viewed himself in Chapter 21?

9. What position did U.S. government Afghan specialist Zalmay Khalilzad take shortly following the takeover of Kabul by the Taliban?

10. Why was it the CIA's working idea to attempt to keep bin Laden outside "KKJ"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was the "hermetic culture" the FBI had become infamous for by the beginning 1990s? What problems did it cause?

Essay Topic 2

What was the new crop of terrorists that American intelligence recognized had emerged by mid-1995?

Essay Topic 3

What was the new secret two-track policy Peter Tomsen finalized toward the Afghan war subsequent to the Soviet troop withdrawal?

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