Deck 11: Jihadist Networks

Question 1

Dr.Ayman al Zawahiri was born into a prominent Egyptian family in 1951.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Al Qaeda,ISIS,and a number of other militant groups follow a puritanical strain of Islam known as Jihadi Salafism.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Most Muslims,including a large number of Jihadi Salafists,have denounced ISIS.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The United States helped Saudi Arabia develop a funding mechanism and underground arms network to supply the mujahedeen during the Soviet-Afghan War.

Question 5

The Muslim Brotherhood formed in Afghanistan.

Question 6

Who of the following is a religious reformer who wanted to purge Islam of anything beyond the traditions accepted by Mohammed and the four Rightly Guided caliphs?

A)Mohammed ibn Abdul Wahhab
B)Abu Basir al Tartusi
C)Sayyid Qutb
D)Taqi al Din ibn Taymiyyah

Question 7

Who of the following was a Muslim religious reformer in the time of the Crusades and a massive Mongol invasion?

A)Mohammed ibn Abdul Wahhab
B)Abu Basir al Tartusi
C)Sayyid Qutb
D)Taqi al Din ibn Taymiyyah

Question 8

Which organization was founded in 1928 to recapture the religious purity of the period of Mohammed and the four Rightly Guided caliphs?

A)ISIS
B)al Qaeda
C)Moro National Liberation Front
D)Muslim Brotherhood

Question 9

The emergence of ISIS was not a surprise to people in the West.

Question 10

Jihadi Salafism represents the majority of Muslims' interpretation of Islam.

Question 11

Only religious fanatics follow the Jihadi Salafist path.

Question 12

The present-day revolt in Thailand is smaller but more united than the failed revolt that occurred 40 years ago.

Question 13

Who of the following was an Egyptian educator who called for the overthrow of non-Islamic governments and the imposition of purified Islamic law based on the previous puritanical reformers?

A)Mohammed ibn Abdul Wahhab
B)Abu Basir al Tartusi
C)Sayyid Qutb
D)Taqi al Din ibn Taymiyyah

Question 14

In practice,AQI was an extension of al Qaeda.

Question 15

Al Qaeda's origins can be traced to the Cold War.

Question 16

The nature of Jihadi Salafism changed as bin Laden and Zawahiri lost operational power.

Question 17

Although the Taliban is most closely associated with Afghanistan,its core emerged from Saudi Arabia.

Question 18

Diverse al Qaeda movements have appeared in different parts of the world,and their effectiveness is growing.

Question 19

see themselves as the only "true" Muslims,and they have assumed the authority to denounce fellow Muslims "heretics" if they disagree with the theology.

A)Shi'ites
B)Sunnis
C)Salafis
D)Caliphs

Question 20

Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)seems to be emerging as a new global jihadist organization working in conjunction with al Qaeda.

Question 21

Al Qaeda's origins can be traced to __________________.

A)World War II
B)the Korean War
C)the Cold War
D)the Lebanese Civil War

Question 22

What is the military code name for the January-February offensive in the 1991 Gulf War?

A)Desert Storm
B)Desert Shield
C)Operation Iraqi Liberation
D)Gulf War

Question 23

Also known as Dr.Fadl,was one of Egypt's leading militants in the 1970s.

A)Sayyid Qutb
B)AbdullahAzzam
C)Sayyid Imam al Sharif
D)Abu Mohammed al Maqdisi

Question 24

What is the Islamic group that governed Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001?

A)ISIS
B)Taliban
C)PIJ
D)Al Qaeda

Question 25

Which of the following,written by Abu Bakr Naji,is a guide for recreating the caliphate while terrorizing enemies without and within?

A)The Management of Savagery
B)The Mini-Manual for the Urban Guerilla
C)The Turner Diaries
D)A Call to Global Islamic Resistance

Question 26

The Soviet Union invaded in 1979.

A)Afghanistan
B)China
C)Somalia
D)Iran

Question 27

Which of the following is a do-it-yourself manual for global terrorism,written by Abu Musab al Suri?

A)The Management of Savagery
B)The Mini-Manual for the Urban Guerilla
C)The Turner Diaries
D)A Call to Global Islamic Resistance

Question 28

The Commission is the bipartisan National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States.

A)Domestic Terror
B)9/11
C)al Qaeda
D)1995

Question 29

Bin Laden officially declared war on the United States in what year?

A)1996
B)2001
C)1982
D)1990

Question 30

Central leadership of al Qaeda currently operates in the tribal areas of .

A)Afghanistan
B)Sudan
C)Saudi Arabia
D)Pakistan

Question 31

What is the name of the organization created by Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri that represents a variety of Jihadist groups?

A)ISIS
B)World Muslim Front against Heretics
C)World Islamic Front against Jews and Crusaders
D)Jihadi Salafism

Question 32

Who was the leader of the Taliban?

A)Sayyid Qutb
B)Osama bin Laden
C)Mullah Omar
D)Abu Mohammed al Maqdisi

Question 33

The militant theology of al Qaeda derives from the political-religious writings of .

A)Marighelli
B)Marx
C)Mao Zedong
D)Qutb

Question 34

In the 1980s and 1990s,American right-wing extremist Louis Beam championed a concept called .

A)centralized leadership
B)leaderless resistance
C)umbrella leadership
D)focused resistance

Question 35

Who was the spiritual mentor of bin Laden?

A)Sayyid Qutb
B)AbdullahAzzam
C)Mullah Omar
D)Abu Mohammed al Maqdisi

Question 36

What was the name of the defensive phase of the international coalition created by President George H.W.Bush after Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2,1990?

A)Desert Storm
B)Desert Shield
C)Operation Iraqi Liberation
D)Gulf War

Question 37

,also known as Dr.Fadl,was one of Egypt's leading militants in the 1970s.

A)Mullah Omar
B)Sayyid Imam al Sharif
C)Abdullah Azzam
D)Ayman al Zawahiri

Question 38

Egyptian police arrested dissidents from all over Egypt after the assassination of in 1981.

A)Anwar Sadat
B)Gamal Abdel Nasser
C)Hosni Mubarak
D)Muhammad Naguib

Question 39

In August 1998,bin Laden's terrorists bombed the U.S.embassies in and Tanzania.

A)Kuwait
B)Sudan
C)Kenya
D)Saudi Arabia

Question 40

The is the Pakistani domestic and foreign intelligence service,created by the British in 1948.

A)CIA
B)ISI
C)AQIM
D)ISIS

Question 41

The AQAP is a splinter group of what terrorist organization?

A)Al Qaeda
B)Hezbollah
C)Hamas
D)LeT

Question 42

Abu Bakr al Baghdadi entered the Syrian civil war in 2010 and changed ISI to what?

A)ISIS
B)al Qaeda
C)AQI
D)AQIM

Question 43

Indonesia gained its independence from after World War II.

A)France
B)The United States
C)The Netherlands
D)Great Britain

Question 44

The Pattani United Liberation Organization (PULO)is focused within which country?

A)Ireland
B)Sudan
C)Somalia
D)India

Question 45

Although Thailand is dominated by Buddhism,is the primary religion of the three most southern states.

A)Hinduism
B)Islam
C)Shinto
D)Christianity

Question 46

Which of the following is a family in the tribal area of Afghanistan that has relations with several militant groups and the ISI?

A)Salafism Network
B)ISIS Network
C)Haqqani Network
D)Benghazi Network

Question 47

Al Baghdadi transformed ISI into a - style guerilla army.

A)Guevara
B)Marighella
C)Marx
D)bin Laden

Question 48

Scholarly research has shown that ___________ is important for recruitment to ISIS.

A)social media
B)education
C)socioeconomic status
D)gender

Question 49

is one of the newest jihadist groups grown from the tangled political situation in Yemen,and it maintains cross- border ties with radicals in Saudi Arabia.

A)AQIM
B)FATA
C)AQAP
D)ISI

Question 50

The ,located in Islamabad,taught militant theology.

A)Ghazi Mosque
B)Red Mosque
C)Aziz Mosque
D)Red Temple

Question 51

Abu Bakr al Baghdadi sent to Syria with instructions to create an ISI front in Syria.

A)Sayyid Qutb
B)Osama bin Laden
C)Abu Mohammed al Jawlani
D)Abdul Rehman

Question 52

went on a shooting spree at Ford Hood,Texas,on November 5,2009.

A)Aby Sulyman al Jazairi
B)Nidal Malik Hasan
C)Abdullah Azzam al Saudi
D)Mokhtar Belmokhtar

Question 53

AQIM formed from disaffected jihadists from a long civil war in what country?

A)Algeria
B)The Philippines
C)Somalia
D)India

Question 54

On May 1,2011,whose compound was attacked by U.S.Navy SEALs?

A)Aby Sulyman al Jazairi
B)Osama bin Laden
C)Abdullah Azzam al Saudi
D)Abdul Rehman

Question 55

Who of the following founded al Qaeda in Iraq?

A)Mullah Omar
B)Osama bin Laden
C)Abu Musab al Zarqawi
D)Sayyid Imam al Sharif

Question 56

The Ghazi Brigades are more closely allied with than any of Pakistan's other terrorist groups.

A)The Pakistani Taliban
B)The Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)
C)The Pakistan People's Party
D)The Asian Tigers

Question 57

There is tension between Pakistan and India all along their border,especially in the areas of Jammu and _________________,where both countries claim sovereignty.

A)Dublin
B)Punjab
C)Kashmir
D)Karachi

Question 58

Which of the following groups is responsible for the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai?

A)Al Qaeda
B)AQAP
C)LeT
D)Al Shabab

Question 59

The Pattani United Liberation Organization (PULO)was formed in 1968 to create a Muslim state through armed struggle in what country?

A)India
B)Pakistan
C)Sri Lanka
D)Thailand

Question 60

Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)began as an offshoot of what war?

A)The Algerian Civil War.
B)The Soviet-Afghan War
C)The Iraq-Iran War
D)The Six-Day War

Question 61

The Management of Savagery by justifies rule by terror and mass murder of "heretics" and nonbelievers.

Question 62

Many Indonesian jihadist movements had been trained in the mujahedeen camps of:

A)Egypt
B)Afghanistan
C)Saudi Arabia
D)Thailand

Question 63

AQIM operates in and surrounding areas.

Question 64

The historical path of Jihadi Salafism can be traced from ibn Taymiyya through .

Question 65

Which of the following was formed with the purpose of bringing Indonesia under strict Islamic law?

A)MNLF
B)Jamaat Islamiyya
C)Lashkar Jihad
D)Abu Sayyuf

Question 66

evolved from the ISI and declared its independence from al Qaeda's core.

Question 67

Modern militancy grew with the teachings of in the 20th century.

Question 68

ISIS has called on Muslims throughout the world to come to the .

Question 69

currently presents the greatest international threat.

Question 70

The is leading the insurgency in Thailand,and carries a jihadist agenda.

A)BRN-C
B)AQIM
C)LeT
D)GMIP

Question 71

Complementing the BRN-C is the with 40 active cells in Thailand,as well as contacts with Jamaat Islamiyya in Indonesia and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in the Philippines.

A)BRN-A
B)AQIM
C)LeT
D)GMIP

Question 72

Al Qaeda was created during the War.

Question 73

Regional al Qaeda organizations started with the core's and assistance.

Question 74

Which of the following is not a major crisis point for Jihadi Salafist groups?

A)Japan
B)Thailand
C)Pakistan
D)Indonesia

Question 75

AQAP operates in ____________.

Question 76

was created as an al Qaeda franchise in Iraq after the 2003 American invasion.

Question 77

's A Call to Global Islamic Resistance is a lengthy Jihadi Salafist treatise.

Question 78

The governed Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001.

Question 79

Training in Pakistan and Afghanistan under 's spiritual mentoring,Osama bin Laden financed mujahedeen operations and taught the guerillas how to build field fortifications.

Question 80

is a puritanical strain of Sunni Islam.