Deck 14: Countering Terrorism

Question 1

U.N. Security Council Resolution 1373 was unanimously adopted on ________, under Chapter VII of the UN Charter

A) December 7^th 1955.
B) September 5^th 2001
C) November 11^th 1945.
D) September 28, 2001

Answer 1

September 28, 2001

Question 2

Arabic news media, ________, is the largest and most controversial Arabic news channel in the Middle East.

A) Abu Dhabi
B) Al Jazeera
C) Al Hamza
D) Iran News Service

Answer 2

Al Jazeera

Question 3

The "Sky Marshal" program has in fact been around since the late ________, when armed U.S. Customs agents operated in plain clothes on U.S. flagged international flights.

A) 1980s
B) 1970s
C) 1960s
D) 1950s

Answer 3

1960s

Question 4

The futility of using military combat units in a policing role was graphically demonstrated by the U.S. military in which country?

A) Sudan
B) Somali
C) Iraq
D) Iraq.

Question 5

Israel was one of the first states to provide ________ on all its flights?

A) 100% baggage match
B) Secure cockpit doors
C) Sky Marshals
D) Passenger profiling

Question 6

The Israeli national airline El Al has been ________ passengers attempting to board its flights for the past thirty plus years with considerable success.

A) Profiling
B) Interviewing
C) Pre-screening
D) Body scanning

Question 7

In November 2004, the U.S. Transportation Security Agency (TSA) began testing a new form of passenger prescreening called:

A) Watch Lists.
B) Secure Flight.
C) CAPS I.
D) CAPS II.

Question 8

In June 2007, a full frontal attack using a vehicle as a means to deliver an incendiary bomb took place at:

A) Glasgow International Airport.
B) Munich.
C) Tel Aviv.
D) Heathrow International Airport.

Question 9

What term best describes the effects on the body of vesicants?

A) Blood agent
B) Blistering agent
C) Nerve agent
D) Choking agent

Question 10

Operation Bojinka was planned in 1995 and was uncovered by ________ they stumbled by accident on a bomb making factory in an apartment block that had caught fire.

A) The FBI
B) Philippine authorities
C) Australian authorities
D) German police

Question 11

Cutaneous anthrax occurs when anthrax spores come in direct contact with what?

A) The lungs
B) An open cut or broken skin
C) The nasal tissues
D) Lining of the esophagus

Question 12

What is the term given to those agents often found in tear gas used for riot control situations?

A) Vesicants
B) Nerve agents
C) Irritating agents
D) Choking agents

Question 13

The SAS has also been used effectively against the IRA in Europe. In 1988, the SAS followed an IRA unit to ________, where intelligence sources indicated the terrorists would detonate a bomb during A military parade.

A) Gibraltar
B) Malta
C) Ibiza
D) Spain

Question 14

Avian Flue or "Bird Flu" is a highly contagious disease caused by viruses that normally only infects birds. The virus when it jumps from animals to human beings is identified as the ________ virus.

A) Tularemia
B) Severe acute respiratory
C) HN51
D) H5N1

Question 15

GSG-9 was formed following the disaster at:

A) Gibraltar.
B) The World Trade Center.
C) Munich Olympic Games.
D) Entebbe.

Question 16

Sayeret Mat'kal is also known as the General Staff Reconnaissance Unit 69, and was founded in 1957.

Question 17

Civil libertarians and extreme left-wing agitators argue that the network of closed circuit television cameras throughout the major cities and the motorway systems of Great Britain has proved to be successful in tracking down terrorists who abandon vehicles packed with explosives.

Question 18

SEAL Team Six is the Navy's equivalent to the Delta Force and is responsible for handling counter-terrorism in any maritime environment.

Question 19

Six months after the crash of Pan Am 103 and FAA inspector reported that …the posture of Pan Am is considered safe; all passengers flying out of Frankfurt are no longer considered at risk.

Question 20

Suicide as a means to impress terrorism on an unsuspecting civilian population has been used effectively in the Middle East by Hamas, The Red Brigade and Hezbollah.

Question 21

The Stinger Missile is approximately 5 feet in length and weighs thirty-four pounds. It is manufactured by Raytheon and can be fired from a distance of five miles and has a vertical range of 10,000 feet.

Question 22

In the 1990s the viewpoint of the FAA was basically that; it won't happen here, hijacking aircraft is not a North American problem.

Question 23

The TSA began Secure Flight by compiling a "Terrorist No-Fly list" to be compared to names on an airline passenger manifest.

Question 24

The Oxford English Dictionary defines "piracy" as "Murder, kidnapping, or violence committed at sea or from the sea without lawful authority, especially by one vessel against another."

Question 25

An attack on a ship operating close to shore, often an opportunist attack, by pirates in small, high-speed, seagoing craft, with the intent to steal cash and personal valuables from the crew and the ship's safe. This is defined as a High-Level Armed Robbery (HLAR).

Question 26

Prior to 9-11, the numbers of containers being screened as they enter the United States amounted to less than half of 1 percent of all container traffic.

Question 27

The Army Ranger Wing is the elite counter terrorist force of the Republic of Ireland.

Question 28

JTF-2 was set up as the central terrorist analysis center in support of the British security services.

Question 29

At a global Threat Reduction Initiative conference in Vienna in 2004 the head of the U.N. Atomic Energy Agency stated that there are about 350 sites in 58 countries that possess highly enriched uranium and about two dozen of them with enough material to build a nuclear device.

Question 30

Chemical agents are relatively easy to manufacture and just as easy to disperse.