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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. Who took over temporarily as the head of the FBI during the director's vacation in 1998?

2. When did several Somali tribesmen drag the bodies of two American helicopter pilots through Mogadishu?

3. For what news station did John Miller work when he interviewed Osama bin Laden in 1998?

4. Who did Mohammed Atta believe was a Jewish agent sent to undermine President Clinton?

5. Who was the Sudanese vice president that met with Timothy Carney on the last night before the Americans withdrew from Sudan?

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

4. Why did Mullah Omar move Osama bin Laden to Kandahar in 1997?

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

6. When and why did the Khobar Towers bombing occur?

7. Why was John O'Neill suspected of a leak after bin Laden's ABC News interview in 1998?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the terrorist organization al-Qaeda. When was it formed? Who formed it? What was al-Qaeda's mission? How has the organization changed over time?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Discuss the life and work of Prince Turki al-Faisal. Why was Prince Turki given a position in intelligence? What was his role? What was Prince Turki's relationship to Osama bin Laden? How did that relationship change?

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