Deck 11: Southern and Southeast Asia

Question 1

He was killed in a clash with British and U.S. Special Forces in Helmand Province on May 13, 2007.

A) Mullah Omar
B) Hamid Karazi
C) Mullah Dadullah
D) Maulana Shirani

Answer 1

Mullah Dadullah

Question 2

For years the most ruthless Islamic and other terrorist organizations have been known to use ________ as a base for recruiting, training, and harboring terrorist to carry out attacks abroad:

A) Afghanistan
B) The Khyber Pass
C) Kashmir
D) Sri Lanka

Answer 2

Afghanistan

Question 3

In 1997 four U.S. employees of Union Texas Petroleum and their driver were murdered in Karachi when their vehicle was attacked near the U.S. Consulate. What two separate groups claimed responsibility for the killings?

A) Harakat -ul-Ansar and Akali Dal
B) Aimal Khufia Action Committee and Islami Inqilabi Mahaz
C) Amal and SGPC
D) Babba Khalsa and the LTTE

Answer 3

Aimal Khufia Action Committee and Islami Inqilabi Mahaz

Question 4

The Indian military and police assault on the Golden Temple in Amritsar in 1984 caused an unprecedented bloodletting between:

A) Sikhs and Punjabis.
B) Indians and Pakistanis.
C) Kashmiri's and Afghans.
D) Hindus and Muslims.

Question 5

Sikh terrorism is sponsored by expatriate and Indian Sikh groups that want to carve out an independent Sikh state called Khalistan from Indian Territory. Which of the following are active
Groups?

A) Dal Khalsa
B) Sikh Youth Federation
C) Babbar Khalsa
D) All of the above

Question 6

Relying on Afghan mercenaries to do the fighting on the ground resulted in Osama bin Laden's escape from:

A) Kandahar.
B) Afghanistan.
C) Hilmand Province.
D) the Tora Bora mountains.

Question 7

In early 2008 the Taliban changed their official name to the ________ in communiqués.

A) Ansar al Islam Afghanistan
B) LeT
C) Islamic Caliphate of Afghanistan
D) Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

Question 8

The impressions (real or imagined), that the United States is now actually working to undermine ________ is being strengthened by U.S. support of regimes in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.

A) Saudi Arabia
B) Pakistan
C) Iran
D) Islam

Question 9

Most of the Taliban's leaders were educated in ________, in refugee camps where they had fled with millions of other Afghans after the Soviet invasion.

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

Question 10

The merger between the Cambodian Peoples Armed Forces and the Communist resistance armies formed into which organization?

A) Cambodian Armed Resistance (CAR)
B) Khmer Rouge
C) Pol Pot
D) Khmer Royal Armed Forces

Question 11

Cambodia under the rule of the Khmer Rouge was called by what name?

A) Myanmar
B) Peoples Republic of Cambodia
C) Sri Lanka
D) Kampuchea

Question 12

The Khmer Rouge used executions, starvation and labor camps to subdue the people of Cambodia. What is the estimate of the numbers killed the Khmer Rouge campaign during its four year reign
On the 1970s?

A) 1 million
B) 3 million
C) 5 million
D) 2 million

Question 13

The Dera had openly supported the ________ in the State Assembly elections in March 2007.

A) Dal Khalsa
B) Indira Gandhi
C) Congress Party
D) Akali Dal

Question 14

India has identified terrorist training camps and terrorists trained to conduct attacks in India in which neighboring countries?

A) Pakistan and Afghanistan
B) Afghanistan and Kashmir
C) Pakistan and Bangladesh
D) Kashmir and Pakistan

Question 15

Osama bin Laden has made mention of India in previous proclamations, when in 2006 he called on the ________ to rise up against India.

A) Liberation Tigers
B) Kashmiri Sikhs
C) Hindus
D) Kashmiri Muslims

Question 16

Present-day relations between India and Pakistan improved significantly when both acquired nuclear weapons capability.

Question 17

Following Ghandi's concepts of non violent resistance the Indian National Congress Party used both parliamentary means and non-cooperation to compel the British to award India its independence.

Question 18

For years, the most ruthless of the Islamic and other terrorist organizations have been known to use Afghanistan as a base for recruiting, training, and harboring terrorists to carry out operations abroad.

Question 19

Aircraft hijackings have also been a popular modus operandi for Pakistani terrorists.

Question 20

Saudi-born terrorist financier, Osama bin Laden, was originally recruited by the CIA in efforts against the Soviet occupation and war in Afghanistan.

Question 21

Pakistan has long held its own claims on Kashmir but saw no benefit from encouraging the formation of a Sikh state, Khalistan in the Punjab.

Question 22

Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence sponsors and promotes separatism primarily in Kashmir as a strategic long term program.

Question 23

On many occasions, India has drawn attention to the presence of training camps in neighboring Kashmir and Afghanistan. Terrorists are trained and equipped to carry out operations in India, particularly in the states of Jammu and Kashmir.

Question 24

Former President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan had been a strong supporter of Islamic militants in the region and had not pledged his country's support for the War on Terror.

Question 25

The Naxalite movement has created multiple operations and command centers for the revolution, which clearly means more attacks are to come.

Question 26

Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, who was extradited from Afghanistan to the United States in 1995, was also convicted in New York in November 1997 for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York City.

Question 27

The Pakistan Peoples Party, is a center right-leaning party that eschews religious extremism but had recognized in the Taliban the new opportunity to secure trade routes across southern Afghanistan.

Question 28

The Red Mosque in the Pakistani capital Islamabad has been in place since 1965, and home to fundamentalist teachers with links to global terrorism.

Question 29

The SGPC forced Sikh traditionalism and conservatism on Punjabi society.

Question 30

HUA members have participated in insurgent and terrorist activities primarily in Sri Lanka.