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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. The new National Security Decision Directive in 1985 made it harder to keep CIA involvement secret and there was concern the Soviets would retaliate against what nations?

2. What did Massoud's group protect?

3. When was the ISI captured and sold a Russian SU-25 to the CIA?

4. When was the CIA's Counterterrorist Center formed?

5. What was the Taliban trying to clear Afghanistan of?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How had the city of Peshawar evolved by late 1986?

3. How did the Prologue to Ghost Wars open?

4. Why did Ahmed Shah Massoud join the Muslim Youth Organization while he was a student at Kabul Polytechnic Institute?

5. How was Paul Pillar described when he arrived at the Counterterrorist Center in Chapter 14?

6. What were some of Benazir Bhutto's goals when elected for a second term as Pakistan's prime minister?

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

8. What joke quickly circulated about James Woolsey, the CIA director, being unable to get an appointment with Clinton?

9. How did Haq's relationship with the CIA begin?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was the new crop of terrorists that American intelligence recognized had emerged by mid-1995?

Essay Topic 2

How did the Taliban begin in 1994 and evolve?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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