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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. Since the equipment was already in place, the CIA decided to use it for whose capture?

2. When Ziauddin fell from power, which CIA branch lost an ally?

3. Massoud felt he had recovered some political and military momentum in opposition to the Taliban by what point?

4. How many casualties resulted in these two U.S. embassy attacks in Africa?

5. Bin Laden practiced operational security that was intensive and he was cautious of what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How was Clinton's visit to Pakistan among the strangest that presidential history has to offer?

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why was Nawaz Sharif in fear of his army?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What prompted Arab men to follow Cofer Black toward the end of his tour in Khartoum? What was the outcome?

Essay Topic 2

How has bin Laden's security consciousness hindered the CIA goal of capturing or killing him?

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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