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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 the Taliban trying to clear Afghanistan of?

2. Hart also met regularly with Akhtar due Rahman, who directed the ISI, Pakistan's intelligence agency known as what?

3. What action did Massoud take when the Soviets planned to attack the Panjshir Valley?

4. When was there a meeting in Moscow in which the Soviets decided to pull out of Afghanistan within a year or two?

5. What term did Paul Pillar, a chief analyst at the CIA Counterterrorist Center, use when he described individuals like Yousef?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the major concerns of the U.S. embassy at Kabul in early 1988?

2. What weapons systems did the CIA Afghan program provide in late 1985?

3. Why did Schroen roll the jeep into the lake at the end of Chapter 1?

4. How did Robert Gates view Bill Clinton when he flew to meet the president-elect?

5. How was it, as related in Chapter 9, that the Pakistani ISI allied with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar as a means of isolating and defeating rival commanders about Kabul?

6. How did Ahmed Badeeb sneak through Pakistani customs with over $1.8 million in U.S. cash?

7. Where were Schroen's assignments in the decade subsequent to the embassy riots in Islamabad in 1979?

8. How did the 1994 assassination attempt on bin Laden transpire?

9. How did the Prologue to Ghost Wars open?

10. From which stations did the CIA maintain the greatest amount of detailed intelligence collected regarding Middle Eastern radical Islamic movements during the early 1990s?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What reasonably should have been expected to have been done differently regarding American policy to al-Qaeda during the months that led up to 11 September 2001?

Essay Topic 2

What were the methods and means employed by this CIA to disrupt, capture, and kill Osama bin Laden subsequent to his return to Afghanistan in the late 1990s?

Essay Topic 3

What was the Hekmatyar-Tanai coup attempt? Does the evidence indicate bin Laden's involvement was as a semi-official Saudi intelligence liaison or an independent?

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