Deck 6: Terrorism and Organized Crime

Question 1

An early evaluation of criminal gangs in New York determined that groups coming together for the sole purpose of committing criminal activity didn't last long if they lacked what?

A) flexible rules and regulations
B) competition
C) money
D) ethnic solidarity

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Which of the following federal agencies and offices holds the database of information on potential terrorists and people suspected of narcotics trafficking or other law enforcement violations?

A) Department of State-Consular Lookout and Support System
B) Department of State-TIPOFF Database
C) Federal Bureau of Investigation-Violent Gang and Terrorist Organization File
D) Immigration and Customs Enforcement-Border Inspection System

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which of the following cyberterrorist attacks was employed in Operation Desert Storm?

A) physical attack
B) computer network attack
C) electronic attack
D) electromagnetic attack

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which of the following factors plays a role in the solidification of norms and expectations of the members of an organized crime group?

A) culture and tradition
B) earlier affiliations
C) economy or financial status
D) educational background

Question 5

Which social network has become a popular site for online communities of al Qaeda sympathizers?

A) Facebook
B) MySpace
C) Tumbler
D) Orkut

Question 6

Which of the following groups serve as the basis of the formation of organized crime groups?

A) religious fanatics
B) criminal gangs
C) social activists
D) national terrorists

Question 7

Which of the following was NOT a factor that made Estonia particularly vulnerable to a cyberattack in 2007?

A) Most of the nation's banking transactions and parliamentary elections are affected through the Internet.
B) Main media outlets could be shut down, effectively isolating residents and preventing them from appealing to a global audience.
C) The nation's nuclear facilities were run on a Windows operating system that was uniquely vulnerable to Stuxnet.
D) The country has an extensive network of free Wi-Fi.

Question 8

Which of the following is an example of monopolization by an organized crime group?

A) the trade and commerce in Madrid
B) the garbage industry in New York
C) the mass media industry in Beijing
D) the food businesses in Rome

Question 9

What type of terrorism is exemplified by the Irish Republican Army and Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna?

A) religious terrorism
B) political-social terrorism
C) environmental terrorism
D) nationalist terrorism

Question 10

Who among the following define(s) terrorism as an attempt to communicate messages through the use of orchestrated violence?

A) Schmid and Jongman
B) UN Resolution Language
C) Tsfati and Weimann
D) League of Nations Convention

Question 11

Which of the following refers to the illegal duplication of credit cards achieved by running the card through a reader that captures information stored in the magnetic strip on the back?

A) skimming
B) hacking
C) spamming
D) carding

Question 12

Which of the following attacks involve directing conventional weapons against a computer facility for its transmission lines?

A) electronic attacks
B) electromagnetic attacks
C) physical attacks
D) computer network attacks

Question 13

What did a Western intelligence service seize from Kamel Daoudi, an al Qaeda computer engineer, during his arrest?

A) a codebook to decrypt e-mails and telephone conversations
B) a pile of hard copies of Google maps used by al Qaeda
C) a codebook for making bombs and bulletproof vests sent as ebooks
D) a list of the names foreign officials targeted by al Qaeda

Question 14

In which of the following points does a strong dissimilarity between terrorism and organized crime manifest?

A) rules and regulation
B) beliefs and motivation
C) adaptability and resilience
D) punishments for noncompliance

Question 15

Which of the following has been described as a "military-grade cybermissile"?

A) Estonia
B) Orkut
C) Skype
D) Stuxnet

Question 16

Which of the following facilitated Muhammad Siddique Khan's coordination of the 2005 London bombings?

A) online training videos
B) electronic dead drops
C) satellite imaging
D) online social networking sites

Question 17

Which of the following types of terrorists often openly embrace and promote human suffering, and glorify violence as divine ordination?

A) political terrorists
B) environmental terrorists
C) national terrorists
D) religious terrorists

Question 18

What was the basis of the wide acceptance of tyrannicide during the Age of Absolutism?

A) the writings of Juan de Mariana
B) the ideology of conservation of natural resources
C) the staging of anti-royalty plays in public theaters
D) the assassination of Julius Caesar

Question 19

Which of the following types of justification is employed by terrorists who superficially proclaim an abhorrence of violence and stress the urgency for a diplomatic settlement?

A) "no choice" justifications
B) peaceful, nonviolent rhetoric
C) demonizing and delegitimization justifications
D) emphasis of weakness

Question 20

What is the nature of the criminal activity undertaken by groups such as Darkprofits and Shadowcrew?

A) selling or sharing information about stolen credit cards and bank account numbers
B) smuggling of humans across international borders
C) printing counterfeit denominations of American currency
D) distribution of pornographic films

Question 21

Theorists argue that terrorism may be characterized as theater in which the audience is far more important than the actors.

Question 22

________ is defined as the introduction of illegally obtained funds into the legitimate financial marketplace.

A) Extortion
B) Currency counterfeiting
C) Fencing
D) Money laundering

Question 23

Directing conventional weapons against a computer facility is an example of a physical attack.

Question 24

According to Tsfati and Weimann, a resurgence in terrorist rhetoric in Europe has led to a marked increase in both the development of European-based terrorist groups and their presence on the Web.

Question 25

Which of the following cybercrimes, traditionally involving real estate transactions and straw purchases, now uses contemporary methods like electronic layering, international commodities, and online businesses?

A) fraud
B) money laundering
C) gambling
D) counterfeiting of currency

Question 26

Which of the following refers to scams designed to delude a victim into thinking that he or she had been singled out to be the beneficiary of millions of dollars being given away by a company or government agency?

A) skimming
B) pump and dump
C) carding
D) 4-1-9

Question 27

Which of the following, according to a recent report to Congress, has now surpassed international drug trafficking as a terrorist financing enterprise?

A) cargo heists
B) cybercrime
C) weapons manufacturing
D) pornography

Question 28

The Taliban forbids the use of modern innovations.

Question 29

A critical data threat involves the compromise of a critical computer system to alter, manipulate, or destroy critical data with the potential of death, destruction, and/or economic turmoil.

Question 30

The U.S.Border Patrol and the U.S.Customs Service are now under the large umbrella of the Department of State.

Question 31

Traditional methods of ATM/credit card fraud were largely successful due to the lack of computerized databases and lax security measures.

Question 32

The word "terror" comes from the Arabic term hashashin, which means "to arouse fear."

Question 33

The Nigerian Advance Fee Scheme is known internationally as "4-1-9."

Question 34

The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a document which attempts to ensure equality for all and eradicate terrorist groups.

Question 35

The success of a terrorist's agenda largely depends upon the size of the audience selected.

Question 36

All organized crime groups began as criminal gangs.

Question 37

All of the following are similarities among terrorism and organized crime EXCEPT which?

A) Both have rules and regulations.
B) Both require absolute obedience.
C) Both have formal goals and objectives.
D) Both are politically motivated and economically driven.

Question 38

One drawback to the use of dead drops is that communications are not anonymous.

Question 39

Organized crime groups want to remain unrecognized and have no impact within their communities.

Question 40

Traditional methods of human smuggling involve unsecured border crossings via the use of private transportation.

Question 41

Explain the difference between the traditional and contemporary methods used by organized crime groups.

Question 42

Groups of individuals brought together through the Internet which commit nonviolent criminal acts facilitated by the exploitation of networked or interconnected systems are known as ________.

Question 43

The ________ Act requires all information gathered during a criminal investigation, related to foreign or counterintelligence, be shared with other federal agencies.

Question 44

________ attacks are those that involve malware, computer or network intrusion, or other cyberattacks on critical computer systems.

Question 45

The introduction of ________ has vastly expanded the potentiality of organized crime groups and enhanced their methods of operation.

Question 46

The Chicago Crime Commission's early definition of organized crime in the United States referred to it as ________ crime.

Question 47

Expound on the points where terrorism and organized crime meet and divert.

Question 48

The ________ of terror is less important than the emotional or psychological repercussions resulting from the act.

Question 49

Discuss the justifications used by terrorists to maximize ideological appeal.

Question 50

________ terrorism is often overlooked in discussions of the phenomenon, as there is a collective perception that they have limited impact and do not constitute a significant threat.

Question 51

The site of initial infection of ________ was identified as a USB port in Iran.

Question 52

Organized crime groups enhance their profitability through monopolization, which is possible through their use of violence and ________ racketeering.

Question 53

Terrorist groups are ideologically or politically motivated while organized crime groups are ________ driven.

Question 54

To profit from their various criminal schemes, organized crime groups transform commodities into cash, an activity known as ________.

Question 55

________ is a new type of fraud that uses account numbers and counterfeit identity documents to complete identity theft and defraud banks and retailers.

Question 56

The ________, formally known as the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, helped to prove the existence of the Italian mafia as the international conspiracy trafficking narcotics in the United States.

Question 57

The practice of ________ to organizational leaders or elders furthers the interests of the organization in the form of political bribery or the support of criminal defense.

Question 58

A ________ is initiated through an unsolicited electronic communication in which the perpetrators claim to be members of the Nigerian government's unit designed to make restitution to victims of Nigerian scams.

Question 59

Based on the information presented in the chapter, evaluate the potential future of organized crime in the United States.

Question 60

Explain the different definitions of terrorism given and analyze which one is most accurate and applicable in today's situation.