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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. What was President Clinton's response after two American helicopter pilots' bodies were dragged across Mogadishu?

2. What is the center of opium cultivation that the Taliban consolidated control over in Afghanistan?

3. What did the uranium that Osama bin Laden bought from Jamal al-Fadl turn out to be?

4. What was Israel's attack on Lebonon on April 11, 1996 called?

5. Who drove the truck bomb to the American Embassy in Dar es Salaam in August of 1998?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the downing of two U.S. helicopters in October of 1993 become the turning point of the war in Somalia?

2. Where had Mohammed Abdullah al-Khilaifi trained? How is he described by the author?

3. What are listed as the utopian goals of al-Qaeda in Chapter 18?

4. What did Egyptian intelligence officials do to Ahmed Sharraf?

5. Where did the 1998 United States embassy bombings occur? Who engineered them?

6. Who was Mus'ab's father and how did Egyptian intelligence officials gain information about him?

7. What were Osama bin Laden's finances like in 1994?

8. What operation did bin Laden order Khaled Sheikh Mohammed to initiate in the spring of 1999?

9. Who became al-Qaeda's first traitor? How?

10. What led Sudan to expel Osama bin Laden from the country?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the life and career of Mohammed bin Laden. Where was Mohammed bin Laden from? When did he emigrate to Saudi Arabia? What did he do for a living? How did he amass a fortune?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the U.S. Embassy bombings in 1998. When did these bombings take place? How many people were killed in the attacks? How did these attacks influence U.S. intelligence and counterterrorism efforts?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the life, family, education, and career of Hassan al-Turabi. How did Hassan al-Turabi come to be an ideological leader in Sudan? What was his relationship like with Osama bin Laden? How did that relationship evolve?

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