Terrorism Today: The Past, The Players, The Future
Response to the following multiple choice questions:
1. Fear of terrorism has spawned which of the following?
a. sympathy for their causes
b. a movement to aid the terrorists in the US
c. massive Governmental and Private Security industry
d. support for terrorist methods
2. "The Regime de la Terreur" gave birth to the term "terrorism" from events that took place in ___________.
a. France from 1792 - 1794
b. Uganda from 1970 - 1982
c. Mississippi from 1954 - 1960
d. Haiti from 1952 - 1990
3. Trained soldiers (in wartime), or citizens frightened into surrender or compliance but not physically, are __________.
a. religiously motivated targets
b. the most logical and realistic targets
c. political targets
d. collateral targets
4. The French Reign of Terror from 1792-1794 resulted in the deaths of over __________ citizens.
a. 10,000
b. 200,000
c. 1,000,000
d. 400,000
5. Brian Jenkins defines terrorism as the use or threatened use of force designed to bring about __________.
a. anarchy
b. a political response
c. political change
d. political upheaval
6. The terrorists' need for publicity often drives the __________.
a. political motivations of the perpetrators
b. target selection
c. location of the attack
d. number of terrorists required for the attack
7. The United States has established bilateral __________ and close intelligence and law enforcement relationships with many nations to help prevent terrorist incidents.
a. counter terrorism assistance programs
b. counter espionage
c. agreements
d. a UN protocol
8. By definition, the assassination of Julius Caesar, in 44 BC was __________.
a. an act of reprisal
b. murder
c. politically motivated
d. an act of terrorism
9. The potent combination of religious and political fanaticism is the legacy of _________.
a. the Muslim Brotherhood
b. Ayatollah Khomeini
c. the Brotherhood of Assassins
d. Ariel Sharon
10. There is no global consensus on a single definition for _________.
a. state terrorism
b. state sponsored terrorism
c. terrorism
d. insurgency
11. In general, terrorist acts too often have started a __________.
a. quick peace
b. cessation of wrongs
c. cycle of violence
d. way of solving problems
12. The country from which the original terminology of "assassins" emerged is __________.
a. Syria
b. India
c. Morocco
d. Persia
13. During the struggle to gain a homeland free of Nazi terror, _________ had also committed terrorist acts against the indigenous population.
a. the Palestinians
b. the people of Warsaw
c. the Jewish Irgun
c. the Jews
14. Intrinsic meaning is lost when words like ________ or ________ are used loosely to describe a human disaster with a large number of victims, regardless of the cause.
a. murder or ethnic cleansing
b. genocide or holocaust
c. terrorism or insurgency
d. abortion or baby killing
15. The FBI has defined _________ as "groups of individuals who are based and operate entirely in the United States and Puerto Rico without foreign direction, and whose acts are directed at elements of the U.S. government or population."
a. terrorism
b. domestic terrorism
c. jihadization
d. the Weather Underground
16. Some militia members firmly believe that the U.S. government is deeply involved in a conspiracy to create a "_________."
a. Dictatorship
b. A league of Nations
c. A Global Free Trade Agreement
d. New World Order
17. During the summer months of 2001 the 9-11 hijackers, including the trained pilots,undertook surveillance flights across the U.S. at the same time they tested __________.
a. security systems at airports
b. their unarmed combat skills
c. the strength of aircraft cockpit doors
d. their ability to fly the types of aircraft they would hijack
18. What interrogation tactic, if used in the U.S., would be deemed unlawful?
a. threats and personal intimidation
b. sensory deprivation
c. torture
d. imprisonment without trial
19. The failure of the United States and other intelligence organizations to correctly intercept the 9-11 operatives could be blamed on _________.
a. Jamaat al Fuqra
b. Al Qaeda
c. historical events
d. security failures
20. One of the main perpetrators captured by the United States as one of the masterminds of the 9-11 attacks was _________.
a. Maleeha Lodhi
b. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
c. Abu Hamza al Masri
d. Mahmud Ahmed
21. The jihadi-Salafi ideology is the driver that motivates young men and women, either born or living in the West, to carry out __________.
a. autonomous jihad
b. terrorist attacks
c. jihad
d. suicide attacks
22. A member of _________, Omar el Sayed was arrested in Edmonton, Alberta; he had entered Canada on a forged Dutch passport in 1998. He was arrested for possession of fake identification papers and was wanted on drugs and weapons charges in Germany.
a. the PLO
b. Al Qaeda
c. PFLP
d. Hezbollah
23. Through Canada's criminal code, the term _________ is defined as a person or group, trust,partnership or fund, or an unincorporated association or organization.
a. immigrant
b. refugee
c. New World Order
d. entity
24. The trade in illegal drugs between Canada and the United States is viewed as significant and the terrorist group that may be involved in this trade would likely be the _________ with bases of operation in Toronto and Montreal.
a. Hezbollah
b. Tamil Tigers
c. the FLQ
d. Akali Dal
25. A number of terrorists have been caught entering Canada with _________.
a. the intent to attack the U.S.
b. false passports
c. chemical and biological weapons
d. weapon
26. Financing of all Sikh temples in India was controlled by the __________.
a. Shiromani Gurdawara Pradbandhk Committee (SGPC)
b. Dal Khalsa
c. Babbar Khalsa
d. Indian government of Indira Gandhi
27. In March 1984, the Indian government appealed for the extradition of ________ from Canada.
a. Abu Hamza al Masri
b. Talwinder Singh Parmar
c. Inderjit Singh Reyat
d. Mahmud Ahmed
28. Nizar Ben Muhammed Nawar was one of 1300 ________ students who entered Montreal in 1999 and immediately dropped out of sight along with more than 100 other students after the 9-11 attacks.
a. Saudi Arabian
b. Somali
c. Tunisian
d. Iranian
29. Both of these men have been elected to the British House of Commons __________.
a. Sean Savage and Daniel McCann
b. Francis McCloskey and Eamon de Valera
c. Gerry Adams and Martin McGuiness
d. Michael Collins and William Cosgrave
30. The Ulster Volunteer Force also operates under the name of ___________.
a. the Red Hand Defenders
b. Ulster Defense Association
c. Ulster Freedom Fighters
d. Protestant Action Force
31. _________ is part of Orange Lodge and Protestant culture.
a. Burning catholic houses
b. Orangeism
c. Marching
d. Violent demonstration
32. The Protestants celebrate their victory over the Catholic King James I at The Battle of __________.
a. the Boyne
b. the Somme
c. Crumlin Road
d. Culloden
33. Imam Abu Hamza is firm and outspoken in his support for __________.
a. Osama bin Laden
b. Gerry Adams
c. Zacarias Moussaoui
d. The Blind Cleric
34. The London Underground bombers of July 7th, 2005, were mostly naturalized citizens of __________.
a. Algeria
b. Great Britain
c. Yemen
d. Saudi Arabia
35. The Northern Ireland Peace Agreement is a document that addresses ___________.
a. decommissioning
b. political and social inequalities
c. housing rights for Catholic families in the North
d. the right of Loyalists to march in celebration of the Battle of the Boyne
36. In which year was the ETA terrorist organization designated under the U.S. Executive Order-13224?
a. 2002
b. 2005
c. 2001
d. 2003
37. The French Directorate of Territorial Security repeatedly informed its counterparts in Britain that _________, who was residing in London in the early 1990s, had made trips to both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
a. Zacarias Moussaoui
b. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
c. Ahmed Ressam
d. Abu Hamza al Masri
38. ETA members are known to have received training from which terrorist organization at camps in southern Yemen?
a. Front de la Liberation Nationale de la Corse (FLNC)
b. Armed Islamic Group (GIA)
c. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
d. Al Qaeda
39. The _________ stormed a Lufthansa aircraft at Mogadishu, Somalia, killing three hijackers and rescuing the ninety passengers.
a. GEO
b. GSG-9
c. GIGN
d. SAS
40. Two prominent members of the 9-11 hijackers, Mohammed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi, who are believed to have been the pilots that flew the aircraft into the two World Trade Center towers, spent a significant amount of time in __________.
a. Germany
b. Spain
c. Turkey
d. Italy
41. The Partisan Action Group (GAP) originated in Milan at about the same time (1969) as the _________.
a. ETA
b. Red Brigade
c. Red Army Faction
d. Action Direct
42. The November 17 group fervently holds _________ responsible for complicity with Turkey over the Cyprus crisis, thus making the United States a legitimate military target in its relentless war for the oppressed.
a. Greece
b. Italy
c. United States
d. The United Nations Security Council
43. Tito declared a one-party Communist state. Although a Communist state in its own right, _________ was not a puppet of the Soviet Union.
a. Yugoslavia
b. Bosnia
c. Georgia
d. Chechnya
44. Milosevic was extradited to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in _________ to stand trial for war crimes.
a. Zagreb
b. The Hague
c. Gavrilo Princip
d. New York
45. The majority of Kosovo Albanians saw UN involvement as the major obstacle for independence from __________.
a. Serbia
b. Yugoslavia
c. Albania
d. Montenegro
46. In Rome, Italy, on May 13, 1981, a Turkish nationalist attempted to assassinate __________.
a. Ronald Reagan
b. Aldo Moro
c. Pope Pius X
d. Pope John Paul II
47. In which year did Dictator Slobodan Milosevic come to power?
a. 1982
b. 1979
c. 1984
d. 1989
48. Yugoslavia is split along ethnic lines into how many republics?
a. five
b. six
c. four
d. eight
49. Chechen fighters have been involved with affiliated terror groups from Muslim countries trained in __________.
a. Iraq
b. Tajikistan
c. Afghanistan
d. Chechnya
50. The Balfour Declaration from the British point of view was to win support for the war from the __________.
a. Jews
b. Turks
c. Palestinians
d. Arab League
51. The term "Special Night Squads" comes from an invention of _________ in Palestine in 1938.
a. Israeli government
b. Unit 101
c. Mossad
d. the British Army
52. The Al-Fatah terrorist wing responsible for the 1972 Munich Olympic Games massacre was known as __________.
a. Abu Nidal
b. Black September
c. PLO
d. Hamas
53. The Islamic Jihad has close ties to _________ and continues its assault on the Egyptian government.
a. Hezbollah
b. The Muslim Brotherhood
c. Al Qaeda
d. The PLO
54. The militant members of the PLO were known as _________.
a. Fedayeen
b. Unit 101
c. Hezbollah
d. Al Aqsa Martyrs
55. Under Ariel Sharon's _________, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip will continue to be subjected to the effective control of the Israeli military.
a. Disengagement Plan
b. Declaration of Principles
c. war plan
d. Engagement Plan
56. The central figure in the establishment of the HAMAS organization was ________ whose ideology fuelled current Palestinian terrorism.
a. Yasser Arafat
b. Sheikh Abu Katada
c. Sheikh Ahmed Yassin
d. Sheikh Abu Hamza al Masri
57. At the end of 2007 there was a growing Shiite revolt against the Yemeni government led by the __________.
a. Believing Youth Movement
b. Fedayeen Youth Movement
c. PDRY
d. Bahraini Hezbollah
58. Al Qaeda's actual strength in Saudi Arabia may be small and limited to around 100 hard core members but it has sympathy with _________ of the population.
a. 85%
b. 50%
c. 90%
d. 75%
59. During the 1990s Iraq had established a third paramilitary force called the ___________.
a. the Iraqi Resistance Islamic Front
b. Iraqi National Resistance Army
c. Hamza Front
d. Fedayeen Saddam
60. Bin Laden believes that the __________ support for Western interests is a betrayal of Islam.
a. Israeli
b. Iraqi
c. Palestinian
d. Saudi Royal family's
61. The Shah of Iran was restored to the Peacock Throne of Iran in 1953 with the assistance of __________.
a. MEK
b. PLO
c. SAVAK
d. CIA
62. The State of Kuwait is nominally a __________.
a. Communist nation
b. Constitutional monarchy
c. Free democracy
d. Fascist dictatorship
63. Thirty nine U.S. servicemen were injured and seventeen killed in a suicide bombing of the USS Cole on October 12th, 2000, in the port city of __________.
a. Aden
b. Yemen
c. Haifa
d. Beirut
64. Ethiopia has long been Somalia's main rival in the region, and its foreign policy was always aimed at keeping Somalia __________.
a. allied with the U.S.
b. strong and safe
c. weak and divided
d. under its control
65. One of the first actions of Idi Amin when he came to power was to establish two secret state police organizations, the _________ and the __________.
a. Unit of Health Research; Uganda National Police
b. Public Safety Unit; Bureau of State Research
c. Ministry for State Security; Public Order Unit
d. Public Accountability Unit; Uganda State Police
66. November 11th, 1965, is the date when __________ declared a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
a. Ian Smith
b. Milton Obote
c. Robert Mugabe
d. Joshua Nkomo
67. Winnie Mandela, her bodyguards, and a group of tough youths from the Soweto Township became known as __________.
a. the Bakassi Boys
b. ZANU PF
c. the 5 Brigade
d. the Mandela United Football Club
68. The African National Congress (ANC) received outside support from __________.
a. Communist sources
b. Great Britain
c. Zimbabwe
d. Holland
69. The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) received considerable assistance from which country?
a. China
b. South Africa
c. U.S.S.R.
d. Portugal
70. By the end of the Cold War, which organization was intent on reducing and eliminating any Soviet involvement in mineral rich central Africa?
a. CIA
b. The United Nations
c. The AWB
d. PAGAD
71. For years the most ruthless Islamic and other terrorist organizations have been known to use __________ as a base for recruiting, training, and harboring terrorists to carry out attacks abroad.
a. Sri Lanka
b. Afghanistan
c. Kashmir
d. The Khyber Pass
72. The Indian military and police assault on the Golden Temple in Amritsar in 1984 caused an unprecedented bloodletting between __________ and __________.
a. Hindus; Muslims
b. Kashmiri's; Afghans
c. Indians; Pakistanis
d. Sikhs; Punjabis
73. Relying on Afghan mercenaries to do the fighting on the ground resulted in Osama bin Laden's escape from __________.
a. Kandahar
b. Afghanistan
c. the Tora Bora mountains
d. Hilmand Province
74. The impressions (real or imagined), that the United States is now actually working to undermine __________ is being strengthened by U.S. support of regimes in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.
a. Saudi Arabia
b. Islam
c. Pakistan
d. Iran
75. The merger between the Cambodian Peoples Armed Forces and the Communist resistance armies formed into which organization?
a. Khmer Royal Armed Forces
b. Pol Pot
c. Cambodian Armed Resistance (CAR)
d. Khmer Rouge
76. The Khmer Rouge used executions, starvation and labor camps to subdue the people of Cambodia. What is the estimate of the numbers killed by the Khmer Rouge campaign during its four year reign on the 1970s?
a. 3 million
b. 1 million
c. 5 million
d. 2 million
77. India has identified terrorist training camps and terrorists trained to conduct attacks in India in which neighboring countries?
a. Afghanistan and Kashmir
b. Kashmir and Pakistan
c. Pakistan and Bangladesh
d. Pakistan and Afghanistan
78. What tactic has the Falun Gong successfully employed to attack the Chinese authorities?
a. hacking into government computer systems
b. self-immolation
c. hacking into government TV broadcasts
d. hijacking TV stations
79. One of the main goals of the Independence Movement in Taiwan is for an independent nation and joining __________.
a. the Communist Party of China
b. the U.N.
c. the EEC
d. NATO
80. A Japanese Red Army member, Tsutomu Shirosaki, was captured in 1996 and brought to the U.S. to stand trial in connection with a rocket attack on a U.S. embassy in which city?
a. Colombo
b. Jakarta
c. Beirut
d. Bangkok
81. The Philippine government quickly responded when a U.S. company experienced what appeared to be an attack on one of its subcontractors by _________ in Quezon.
a. MILN
b. MILF
c. Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG)
d. New People's Army (NPA)
82. The Philippines has had a long and complex dispute with China, Malaysia, Taiwan, Vietnam, and possibly Brunei over __________.
a. the Spratley Islands
b. Abu Sayyaf
c. its membership in NATO
d. East Timor
83. In 1996 the government of the Philippines began implementing the terms of a peace agreement with which terrorist organization?
a. Jemaah Islamiyyah
b. Moro Islamic Liberation Front
c. Abu Sayyaf
d. Moro National Liberation Front
84. What is the name of the legislative body largely appointed by President Suharto that reelected him to a seventh term as President of Indonesia?
a. The Democracy Assembly
b. The Peoples Assembly
c. The Peoples Consultative Assembly
d. The Democratic Peoples Assembly
85. During his reign, General Diaz (1816-1911) created a broad coalition of military colleagues and followers and in order to control the vast population of Mexicans that lived in the countryside he created __________.
a. rural secret police teams
b. rural Police
c. rural military commands
d. All of the above.
86. The Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerrilla was written by __________.
a. Manual Rodriguez
b. Carlos the Jackal
c. Abimael Guzman
d. Carlos Marighella
87. Land disputes between the Mexican Government and peasant farmers and landowners has been ongoing in which regions of Mexico?
a. Vera Cruz
b. Chiapas and Hidalgo
c. Oaxaca and Peubla
d. All of the above.
88. Mexico's Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) received support training and logistics from which South American terrorist group?
a. Shining Path
b. Rebel Armed Forces of Colombia
c. Contras
d. ELZN
89. Which one of the following groups did NOT merge to form the Guatemalan National Unity Group?
a. Organization of People in Arms
b. Guerrilla Army of the Poor
c. Morazanist Patriotic Front
d. Rebel Armed Forces
90. In 1968 the commander of El Salvador's National Guard created what intelligence gathering organization?
a. URNG
b. FAR
c. Contras
d. ORDEN
91. What is considered to be Central America's number one crime problem?
a. Kidnapping
b. Gangs
c. Drugs
d. All of the above.
92. Arabic news media, __________, is the largest and most controversial Arabic news channel in the Middle East.
a. Al Jazeera
b. Al Hamza
c. Abu Dhabi
d. Iran News Service
93. The futility of using military combat units in a policing role was graphically demonstrated by the U.S. military in which country?
a. Somali
b. Iran
c. Iraq
d. Sudan
94. The Israeli national airline, El Al, has been __________ passengers attempting to board its flights for the past thirty plus years with considerable success.
a. body scanning
b. profiling
c. interviewing
d. pre-screening
95. In June 2007, a full frontal attack using a vehicle as a means to deliver an incendiary bomb took place at __________.
a. Heathrow International Airport
b. Munich
c. Tel Aviv
d. Glasgow International Airport
96. Operation Bojinka was planned in 1995 and was uncovered by __________ when they stumbled by accident on a bomb making factory in an apartment block that had caught fire.
a. The FBI
b. Australian authorities
c. Philippine authorities
d. German police
97. What is the term given to those agents often found in tear gas used for riot control situations?
a. irritating agents
b. vesicants
c. nerve agents
d. choking agents
98. The SAS has also been used effectively against the IRA in Europe. In 1988, the SAS followed an IRA unit to __________, where intelligence sources indicated the terrorists would detonate a bomb during a military parade.
a. Spain
b. Gibraltar
c. Ibiza
d. Malta
99. Avian Flue or "Bird Flu" is a highly contagious disease caused by viruses that normally only infect birds. The virus when it jumps from animals to human beings is identified as__________ virus.
a. severe acute respiratory
b. HN51
c. H5N1
d. tularemia
100. GSG-9 was formed following the disaster at __________.
a. Munich Olympic Games
b. Entebbe
c. The World Trade Center
d. Gibraltar