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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. One report received was a plot against Massoud that involved an assassin dispatched to place what in his shoes?

2. On 7 August 1998 a devastating terrorist attack against U.S. embassies took place in which two African capitals?

3. Which former Clinton lobbyist was hired by Pervz Musharraf to assure the White House his outlook was liberal?

4. Massoud's group was suspicious of the U.S. and its relationship to the Taliban, but who was his one CIA link?

5. The CIA suspected Pakistani intelligence worked with bin Laden and trained recruits to fight where?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was the Afghan war changing by 1999?

2. What plan was agreed to between Pakistani intelligence director Naseem Rana and CIA station chief Schroen regarding the capture of Mir Amal Kasi?

3. How did Prince Turki view the threat bin Laden posed?

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

5. How did the "bin Laden Issue Station" evolve?

6. Why did Prince Turki believe that bin Laden had fallen through the cracks?

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

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

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

10. By early 1999, what was Tenet's view about the possibility bin Laden might again attack America?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was the significance when the CIA re-established contact with Ahmed Shah Massoud in September 1996?

Essay Topic 2

What was the Hekmatyar-Tanai coup attempt? Does the evidence indicate bin Laden's involvement was as a semi-official Saudi intelligence liaison or an independent?

Essay Topic 3

What was author Steve Coll referring to when he noted an adviser to Ahmed Shah Massoud recalled a roughly translated Afghan phrase that went, "'Your mouth cannot be sweet when you talk about honey; you must have honey in your mouth'"?

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