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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What approval does Clarke ask for from Madeleine Albright?
(a) Approval to publicly threaten Taliban and bin Laden.
(b) Run an interagency process to protect U.S. embassies.
(c) More manpower to find terrorists' funding.
(d) To bomb Afgahnistan.

2. What does Powell suggest to fight the al Qaeda threat?
(a) Ally with Russia and other countries for unsuspected intelligence resources.
(b) Use U.S.-supporting Afghans to infiltrate al Qaeda cells.
(c) Put pressure on Pakistan to ally with the U.S. and against theTaliban and al Qaeda.
(d) Massive attack on Afghanistan training camps.

3. What does Clarke suggest will help weaken the Taliban?
(a) Using the Taliban's own bombing tactics on their known facilities.
(b) Helping the Northern Alliance.
(c) Improve U.S. relations with developing countries.
(d) Strengthen U.S. friendship with Pakistan.

4. How does al Qaeda indirectly fund terrorism so they are not caught?
(a) Through fabricated charities, museums, mosques, and cultural centers all over the world.
(b) They use conterfeit money.
(c) They do not use a central banking system.
(d) They keep all their money in the Caribbean or Switzerland.

5. Who throws a fit about discussion of al Qaeda at a committee meeting with CSG?
(a) Dick Cheney.
(b) Paul Wolfowitz.
(c) Donald Rumsfeld.
(d) Rich Armitage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Clarke models his work with Will Wechsler after seeing success against what other crime group?

2. More than al Qaeda, what other acts of terrorism are on the FBI's minds?

3. What does Berger do for Clarke as Clarke did for him?

4. What is Iraq's reported plan to deter the U.S. from invading?

5. What prompts Health and Human Services to attend a CSG meeting for the first time?

Short Essay Questions

1. In detail, describe the Cabinet meeting that gives the departments a wake-up call about how the U.S. lacks a chemical, biological and nuclear weapons response system.

2. How does Afghanistan fare after the Soviets leave at the end of the 1980's? When does Usama bin Laden return, and why at this particular time?

3. Compare and contrast "drug czar" with the new "terrorism czar."

4. What are Rice's views of CSG when she works in the NSC for George W. Bush's administration?

5. What are some differences between George W. Bush and Clinton? Which stands out the most to Clarke?

6. Why is the timing of a strike against al Qaeda questionable in relation to the President?

7. What are the obstacles in planning a snatch for Abu Hafs al-Muratani, an associate of bin Laden, in Khartoum?

8. What is a Pol-Mil Plan? How does it get started?

9. How is Clarke able to get funds for embassy hardening? What stops him and who helps him?

10. Who is Jamal al -Fadl, how does he help U.S. intelligence, and why?

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