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

2. Uzbekistan, which is bordered to the south by Afghanistan, was ruled by which individual in 1999?

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

4. In what year was Bhutto ousted from office and Nawaz Sharif became prime minister?

5. Which two al-Qaeda operatives arrested around the 2000 New Year planned to carry out terrorist attacks?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was autumn in 1999 rough for managers at the Counterterrorist Center who were reporting possible terrorist threats?

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

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

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

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

6. How did the American ambassador to Pakistan in 1996 believe that nation would evolve?

7. Why did Schroen encounter difficulty recovering CIA Stinger missiles from the Taliban?

8. What took place in the Oval Office meeting on 2 December 1998 in the early afternoon?

9. Why was George J. Tenet in various ways an unlikely candidate capable of repairing the breach between the CIA and Clinton?

10. How did the Taliban take their final major prize taken in northern Afghanistan?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What were the methods and means employed by this CIA to disrupt, capture, and kill Osama bin Laden subsequent to his return to Afghanistan in the late 1990s?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

What was the cable draft that Timothy Carney found when he arrived in Khartoum, Sudan, in November 1996 that appalled him? What was ensured? What was the final outcome of that matter?

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