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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. By 9/11, the FAA's "no fly" list contained how many names of suspected terrorists?
2. By the late 1970s, what began to get directly involved in counter-terrorist operations?
3. What was the name of Bin Laden's main camp in Afghanistan?
4. Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) earned a college degree in what subject?
5. KSM stated that his hatred of the U.S. stemmed not from his experience there as a student, but from his disagreement with U.S. policy towards the ___________.
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the TTIC? When was it created, where is it based, who makes up the TTIC, and who do they report to?
2. Who is Lieutenant General William Boykin and what did he tell the Commission in regards to why opportunities were missed to kill Bin Laden?
3. Give three (3) reasons why there needs to be joint action of intelligent agencies.
4. What was the "Hamburg Group" instructed by Bin Laden to do? What did the "Hamburg Group" end up doing instead? Why did the "Hamburg Group" not do what Bin Laden instructed them to do?
5. Why did President Clinton not mention Bin Laden or al-Qaeda by name when he spoke to the public about the looming threat of terrorism and WMD's?
6. Describe the National Intelligence estimate that was distributed in July 1995. What did it warn against?
7. Describe the Minneapolis FBI investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui. Was the FBI able to connect Moussaoui to al-Qaeda?
8. As the year 2000 approached, what were the U.S. citizens concerned with?
9. When was the last time the FAA ordered a nation-wide grounding of all aircraft?
10. Who killed Ahmed Shah Massoud? How did they succeed in killing Massoud?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How has Osama bin Laden taken advantage of using the mass media to communicate his demands to the U.S? In which ways has he used the mass media in the past? Give specific details.
Essay Topic 2
Detail the indecisiveness and bureaucratic inertia of both the Clinton and Bush Administration. Are both administrations equally responsible for the 9/11 attacks? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
The Commission states that they do not know for certain why Hazmi and Mihdhar came to California, why do you suppose they chose California? What could California supply Hazmi and Mihdhar with that another U.S. state could not?
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