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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. Government lawyers debated for months under what circumstances lethal force was legal and when it constituted what?

2. How did Coll describe the relationship between Black and Pillar?

3. Tenet was frustrated by what attention the Clinton Cabinet provided the al Qaeda threat?

4. Massoud's group was suspicious of the U.S. and its relationship to the Taliban, but who was his one CIA link?

5. The CIA's Counterterrorist Center established a new office dedicated to bin Laden in what year?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was autumn in 1999 rough for managers at the Counterterrorist Center who were reporting possible terrorist threats?

2. What was the view of CIA staff members regarding Cofer Black's enthusiastic view for armed Predator drones?

3. Why was it the CIA's working idea to attempt to keep bin Laden outside "KKJ"?

4. How did John Deutch become the CIA chief?

5. How was bin Laden described as having viewed himself in Chapter 21?

6. What took place in the Oval Office meeting on 2 December 1998 in the early afternoon?

7. How was Clinton's visit to Pakistan among the strangest that presidential history has to offer?

8. How was Unocal introduced?

9. What support did CIA field operatives reportedly seek from the White House team of Richard Clarke?

10. How did the "bin Laden Issue Station" evolve?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

What was Cull referring to in Chapter 7 when he quoted Frank Anderson as having said, "The Reagan administration had attracted to Washington 'an awful lot of Soldier of Fortune readers'"?

Essay Topic 3

The book's title specifies the span of time in which the Ghost Wars transpired, but who were the ghosts and what were these conflicts referenced?

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