Deck 6: Western Europe

Question 1

General Franco suppressed the Basque Nationalists by:

A) Incorporating the region within Spain.
B) Incorporating the region into France.
C) Executing the leaders of the Nationalist movement.
D) Deporting dissidents.

Answer 1

Incorporating the region within Spain.

Question 2

In which year was the ETA terrorist organization designated under the U.S. Executive Order 13224?

A) 2001
B) 2005
C) 2002
D) 2003

Answer 2

2001

Question 3

Under Executive Order 13224, French authorities froze 54 million dollars, the assets of the former________ government.

A) Libyan
B) Iraq
C) Taliban
D) Sudanese

Answer 3

Taliban

Question 4

The French Directorate of Territorial Security repeatedly informed its counterparts in Britain that,________ who was residing in London in the early 1990s, had made trips to both Afghanistan and
Pakistan.

A) Zacarias Moussaoui
B) Abu Hamza al Masri
C) Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
D) Ahmed Ressam

Question 5

The Union of Islamic Communities and Organizations in Italy (UCOII) is heavily influenced by:

A) Iran.
B) Syria.
C) Islam.
D) Hezbollah.

Question 6

ETA members are known to have received training from which terrorist organization at camps in southern Yemen?

A) The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
B) Armed Islamic Group (GIA)
C) Al Qaeda
D) Front de la Liberation Nationale de la Corse (FLNC)

Question 7

This group of committed Marxists sought to engage the United States in a combative role by extending the Vietnam War to German soil.

A) Baader Meinhof Gang
B) Red Army Faction
C) Action Direct
D) ETA

Question 8

The ________ stormed a Lufthansa aircraft at Mogadishu, Somalia, killing three hijackers and rescuing the ninety passengers.

A) GSG-9
B) GIGN
C) SAS
D) GEO

Question 9

The 9-11 Commission Report published in 2004 makes considerable mention of the involvement of the ________ and its growth and training in Afghanistan.

A) Hamburg cell
B) Hofstradt cell
C) Hoffberg cell
D) Al Qaeda cell

Question 10

Two prominent members of the 9-11 hijackers, Mohammed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi, who are believed to have been the pilots that flew the aircraft into the two World Trade Center towers, spent A significant amount of time in:

A) Spain.
B) Turkey.
C) Germany.
D) Italy.

Question 11

The Milli Görüs, which has a translation meaning of "," is the largest Muslim organization in Germany:

A) Nationalist Islam.
B) A million Muslims.
C) Islamic Vision.
D) National Vision.

Question 12

The Partisan Action Group (GAP) originated in Milan at about the same time (1969) as the:

A) Red Brigade.
B) Red Army Faction.
C) ETA.
D) Action Direct.

Question 13

November 17's first action, and the first time it came to world attention, was the assassination of U.S. diplomat, ________ in 1975.

A) Aldo Moro
B) Richard Reid
C) Richard Welsh
D) James Dozier

Question 14

The November 17 group fervently holds ________ responsible for complicity with Turkey over the Cyprus crisis, thus making the United States a legitimate military target in its relentless war for the Oppressed.

A) Greece
B) The United Nations Security Council
C) Italy
D) United States

Question 15

The ________ is the largest Muslim organization in Germany.

A) Milli Gorus
B) Kaplan Organization
C) al Qaeda
D) Takfir wal Hirja

Question 16

Revolutionary Cells, also known as Revolutionary Nuclei (RN), has its beginnings from a wide spectrum of anti-NATO, anti-United States, and pro-European Union left-wing groups in the mid-1990s.

Question 17

Similar to the operations of the Stern Gang in Palestine, the National Organization of Cypriot Combatants (EOKA) terrorist organization and its followers began to strike at the occupying influences of Great Britain.

Question 18

During the 1980s, Dev Sol restricted its area of operation to the domestic scene, mainly in Izmir, Istanbul, and Ankara.

Question 19

Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of PKK now behind bars in Ankara but still the leader…set up the organization with the specific aim of liberating the Turks.

Question 20

The PKK has also been the recipient of aid from state sponsors, such as Libya and Iraq.

Question 21

The Corsican Army has its roots in the left wing political movement on the island of Corsica.

Question 22

The Baader Meinhof Gang were trained in Palestinian training camps.

Question 23

The Gang of Roubaix was formed as an ultra right wing group to target Islamic extremists in the Netherlands.

Question 24

The Italian Red Brigade began by targeting the symbols of the Italian state by attacking senior politicians and company executives.

Question 25

General James Dozier was kidnapped by the Red Brigade, was tortured and then murdered. His body was found by the Italian police outside Genoa.

Question 26

Over the last two decades of the twentieth century the Greek police have managed to arrest almost all members of the November 17th terrorist group.

Question 27

November 17 Group takes its name from the date of the assault by troops from the Greek military junta on the National Technical University in Athens.

Question 28

ELA is a Greek terrorist group that split from November 17 organization in 1998.

Question 29

The Stern Gang and EOKA were both active in Cyprus and actively supported by Arch Bishop Makarios.

Question 30

The Revolutionary Front for Proletarian Action (FRAP) conducted its first action on April 20, 1985, a date universally celebrated by European Nazis as the birthday of Adolf Hitler.