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ADJ - Exam 4 - Review Flashcards

1
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When ____ ran for president and promised to end Pablo Escobar’s drug network; Escobar ordered his assassination.

A

Luis Carlos Gulán

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Perhaps the greatest threat posed to the _____ and the other narcoterrorists was the implementation of an extradition treaty between the ______.

A

Medellin

United States and Colombia

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In 1989, Pablo Escobar ordered the bombing of a commercial airline ____ killing all ____ people on board

A

Avianca Flight 203

107

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4
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After Pablo Escobar’s death in 1993, several of _____eventually went on to become the heads of a national paramilitary alliance in Colombia, the ____

A

Los Pepes leaders

United Self-Defense forces of Colombia (A.U.C.)

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5
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Soon the ____ began a guerrilla war in the highlands of Peru in an attempt to draw a regional war.

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Shining Path

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In a spectacular display of support and solidarity for ____; ____ stormed the Japanese ambassador’s residence in Lima, Peru during a diplomatic Christmas celebration.

A

Victor Polay

Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA)

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7
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The relatively lawless ____, is the area where the borders of Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina meet has developed into a hotbed for international terrorist activity.

A

Tri-Border region

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8
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Argentina accused the Government of Iran of directing the ____ bombing and Hezbollah terrorists of carrying out the attack.

A

Association of Mutual Israeli Argentinians (AMIA)

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9
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Strong Evidence was found which suggested Iraq under Saddam Hussein paid _____

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the families of Palestinian suicide bombers $25,000 for each attack

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10
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It is estimated Iraq had paid out ____ from 2000-2003

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$35 million to Palestinian terrorist families

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Saddam Hussein harbored ____ who was responsible for the Achille Largo attack and death of American disabled man

A

Abu Abbas, Secretary general of the PLF

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The Mahdi Army also known as ____ and is responsible for numerous attacks on the united states forces during the Iraq invasion

A

Jaish al-Mahdi led by Muqtada Sadr

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ISIL has recruited ____ into its ranks.

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Iraqi children as young as 9 years old

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ISIL current leader is ____ has a $10 million reward for his capture

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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

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15
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In 2015 ISIL bombed a Shia Mosque in Yemen which ____

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killed 142 people

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Operation ____ was the first time the US openly overthrew an elected civilian government of another sovereign state ____.

A

Ajax

via a coup

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17
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The ____ was the secret police domestic security and intelligence service established by Iran’s _____

A

SAVAK

Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

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18
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Reasons for the revolution in Iran include

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  1. Conservative backlash against westernizing of society and institutions
  2. Liberal backlash to social injustice by the Shah and SAVAK
  3. The 1973 oil revenue windfall and the slow economic conditions within Iran
  4. The corruption of the Shah’s government.
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____ then took the position of Supreme leader if the Iran at the end of _____ was in firm control

A

Ayatollah Kohmani (ARK)

1979

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Under ARK Iran’s foreign policy would change including: involved anti-American ____; ____; ____; _____

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anti-Israeli and anti-British stances

the elimination of foreign influence from Iran

the export and support additional Islamic revolutions around the world

the support Shia Muslim minorities in other countries.

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21
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Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States which ____

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52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days

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22
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Motives for the Iran Hostage Crisis included: ____; ____; ____

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the return of the Shah to Iran for trial

an apology from the United States govt. for its interference in Iranian affairs

the elimination of frozen Iranian assets in the united states which the Govt. froze after the revolution.

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23
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The ____ was a political scandal in ____ where senior administration officials
secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, the subject of an arms embargo as well as money to
Nicaragua which was also prohibited by law

A

Iran Contra affair

1986

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24
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Congress then passed the ____ which ____

A

Boland Amendment

prohibited funding for Contra’s in Nicaragua

25
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On September 28, ____ the US Department of State formally removed ____ from its official list of terrorist organizations

A

2012

MEK

26
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____ is defined as terrorist acts carried out by groups ____

A

Narcoterrorism

directly or indirectly involved in cultivating manufacturing transporting or distributing illegal drugs

27
Q

From 1821 to 1860 Mexico had at least ____ separate presidencies, each lasting an average of ____

A

50

28
Q

The dominant political party is known as ____in Mexico which ruled Mexico for close to ____

A

the PRI

70 years

29
Q

The Tlateloco Massacre named for the square at which the protestors, ____

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mainly students were killed by government forces

30
Q

Approximately _____ and a thousand were arrested

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100-300 people were killed`

31
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Details of what happened during the Igualaa kidnapping remain unclear but the official investigation concluded once the students were in custody _____ and presumably killed

A

the 43 students were handed over to the local United Warriors crime syndicate

32
Q

A death squad is ____

A

a group armed which conducts killings

33
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____ is a small extreme left wind terrorist group in Honduras which violently opposed the United States intervention and support of the right wing political government.

A

The Mozanist Patriotic Front FPM

34
Q

In El Salvador the military sought to purge the country of peasants and went on a killing spree ____

A

accounting for more than 30,000 deaths

35
Q

El Salvadorian officials say gangs are responsible for ____

A

80% of homicides in the country

36
Q

Both the United States and the Soviet Union placed special interest into ____

A

Nicaragua during the 1970’s – 1980’s

37
Q

However, in the 1980’s the ____ was found to be involved in ____

A

Contra government

narcotics trafficking in order to purchase weapons to fight opposing groups

38
Q

In ____ a Florida grand jury indicted Panamanian leader ____ on charges of ____.

A

1988

Manuel Noriega

racketeering and drug running

39
Q

The operations of ____ are funded by ____

A

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)

kidnapping for ransom, gold mining and the production and of course the distribution of illegal drugs

40
Q

According to Human Rights Watch, approximately ____ of the recruits are minors, most of whom are ____

A

30%

forced to join the FARC

41
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____ group’s elite “Black Tiger Squad” conducted suicide bombings against many important targets in Sri Lanka, and mandated all rank-and-file members carried ____ to kill themselves rather than be caught

A

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (L.T.T.E.) or “Tamil Tigers”

a cyanide capsule

42
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The ____ bombing was committed by members of the Sikh militant group Babbar Khalsa in retaliation of Indian Army’s attack during ____

A

Air India Flight 182

Operation Blue Star.

43
Q

The terrorist group responsible for the 2008 Mumbai, India attacks has been identified as _____

A

Lashkar-e-taiba (LeT).

44
Q

The _____ in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad is home to ____

A

Red Mosque

fundamentalist teachers with links to global terrorism and jihad.

45
Q

The Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.) is of the belief ____ may have been peddling ____ to unfriendly countries such as, ____

A

Dr. Abdul Khan

nuclear technology

Iran and North Korea and terrorist groups like al-Qaeda.

46
Q

____ ruled Afghanistan from ____

A

The Taliban (“Students of Islamic Knowledge Movement”)

1996 until 2001.

47
Q

Al-Qaeda has close ties to the following terrorist groups in Afghanistan:

A 
Egyptian Islamic Jihad  (E.I.J.)
Jemaah Islamiyah (J.I.)
Abu Sayyaf Group
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)
Haqqani Network
48
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An August 2007 report by the United Nations found Afghanistan’s opium production ____ and the country supplies ____

A

doubled in two years

over ninety percent of the world’s heroin supply.

49
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The ____ ideology includes forming an Islamic state in ____

A

Abu Sayyaf’s

the Philippines.

50
Q

The government of Singapore discovered in 2001 ____ was planning to attack ____

A

JeMaah IslaMiyah (J.I.).

the British and United States embassies.

51
Q

On October 12, 2002, various members of Jemaah Islamiyah (J.I.) with links to al-Qaeda, a violentIslamist group, were convicted in relation to the ____

A

2002 Bali nightclub bombings.

52
Q

____ was responsible for the Tokyo subway sarin gas attack.

A

Aum Shinrikyo

53
Q

____ is a small, but extreme group founded by ____, whose mandate is an independent state called “East Turkestan.”

A

The East Turkestan Islamic Movement (E.T.I.M.)

the Uighurs

54
Q

North Korean’s have been referred to as ____ by Human Rights Watch, because of the severe restrictions placed on ____

A

“some of the world’s most brutalized people”

their political and economic freedoms.

55
Q

Saudi royal family has well over _____ princes

A

6,000

56
Q

Despite political pressure Saudi Arabia offered political asylum to:

A
  • Ido Amin of Uganda
  • SZine El Abdine Beh Ali of Tunesia
  • Hosn Mubarek of Egypt
  • Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan
57
Q

Wahabism

A

: Religious movement among fundamentalist Islamic believer with and aspiration to return to the earliest fundamental Islamic sources of the Quran and is popular in Saudi Arabia

58
Q

Modern Kuwait govt. is a is a ____

A

constitutional monarchy

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