ADJ - Exam 4 - Review Flashcards
When ____ ran for president and promised to end Pablo Escobar’s drug network; Escobar ordered his assassination.
Luis Carlos Gulán
Perhaps the greatest threat posed to the _____ and the other narcoterrorists was the implementation of an extradition treaty between the ______.
Medellin
United States and Colombia
In 1989, Pablo Escobar ordered the bombing of a commercial airline ____ killing all ____ people on board
Avianca Flight 203
107
After Pablo Escobar’s death in 1993, several of _____eventually went on to become the heads of a national paramilitary alliance in Colombia, the ____
Los Pepes leaders
United Self-Defense forces of Colombia (A.U.C.)
Soon the ____ began a guerrilla war in the highlands of Peru in an attempt to draw a regional war.
Shining Path
In a spectacular display of support and solidarity for ____; ____ stormed the Japanese ambassador’s residence in Lima, Peru during a diplomatic Christmas celebration.
Victor Polay
Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA)
The relatively lawless ____, is the area where the borders of Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina meet has developed into a hotbed for international terrorist activity.
Tri-Border region
Argentina accused the Government of Iran of directing the ____ bombing and Hezbollah terrorists of carrying out the attack.
Association of Mutual Israeli Argentinians (AMIA)
Strong Evidence was found which suggested Iraq under Saddam Hussein paid _____
the families of Palestinian suicide bombers $25,000 for each attack
It is estimated Iraq had paid out ____ from 2000-2003
$35 million to Palestinian terrorist families
Saddam Hussein harbored ____ who was responsible for the Achille Largo attack and death of American disabled man
Abu Abbas, Secretary general of the PLF
The Mahdi Army also known as ____ and is responsible for numerous attacks on the united states forces during the Iraq invasion
Jaish al-Mahdi led by Muqtada Sadr
ISIL has recruited ____ into its ranks.
Iraqi children as young as 9 years old
ISIL current leader is ____ has a $10 million reward for his capture
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
In 2015 ISIL bombed a Shia Mosque in Yemen which ____
killed 142 people
Operation ____ was the first time the US openly overthrew an elected civilian government of another sovereign state ____.
Ajax
via a coup
The ____ was the secret police domestic security and intelligence service established by Iran’s _____
SAVAK
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Reasons for the revolution in Iran include
- Conservative backlash against westernizing of society and institutions
- Liberal backlash to social injustice by the Shah and SAVAK
- The 1973 oil revenue windfall and the slow economic conditions within Iran
- The corruption of the Shah’s government.
____ then took the position of Supreme leader if the Iran at the end of _____ was in firm control
Ayatollah Kohmani (ARK)
1979
Under ARK Iran’s foreign policy would change including: involved anti-American ____; ____; ____; _____
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.
Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States which ____
52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days
Motives for the Iran Hostage Crisis included: ____; ____; ____
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.
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
Iran Contra affair
1986
Congress then passed the ____ which ____
Boland Amendment
prohibited funding for Contra’s in Nicaragua
On September 28, ____ the US Department of State formally removed ____ from its official list of terrorist organizations
2012
MEK
____ is defined as terrorist acts carried out by groups ____
Narcoterrorism
directly or indirectly involved in cultivating manufacturing transporting or distributing illegal drugs
From 1821 to 1860 Mexico had at least ____ separate presidencies, each lasting an average of ____
50
The dominant political party is known as ____in Mexico which ruled Mexico for close to ____
the PRI
70 years
The Tlateloco Massacre named for the square at which the protestors, ____
mainly students were killed by government forces
Approximately _____ and a thousand were arrested
100-300 people were killed`
Details of what happened during the Igualaa kidnapping remain unclear but the official investigation concluded once the students were in custody _____ and presumably killed
the 43 students were handed over to the local United Warriors crime syndicate
A death squad is ____
a group armed which conducts killings
____ 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.
The Mozanist Patriotic Front FPM
In El Salvador the military sought to purge the country of peasants and went on a killing spree ____
accounting for more than 30,000 deaths
El Salvadorian officials say gangs are responsible for ____
80% of homicides in the country
Both the United States and the Soviet Union placed special interest into ____
Nicaragua during the 1970’s – 1980’s
However, in the 1980’s the ____ was found to be involved in ____
Contra government
narcotics trafficking in order to purchase weapons to fight opposing groups
In ____ a Florida grand jury indicted Panamanian leader ____ on charges of ____.
1988
Manuel Noriega
racketeering and drug running
The operations of ____ are funded by ____
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
kidnapping for ransom, gold mining and the production and of course the distribution of illegal drugs
According to Human Rights Watch, approximately ____ of the recruits are minors, most of whom are ____
30%
forced to join the FARC
____ 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
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (L.T.T.E.) or “Tamil Tigers”
a cyanide capsule
The ____ bombing was committed by members of the Sikh militant group Babbar Khalsa in retaliation of Indian Army’s attack during ____
Air India Flight 182
Operation Blue Star.
The terrorist group responsible for the 2008 Mumbai, India attacks has been identified as _____
Lashkar-e-taiba (LeT).
The _____ in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad is home to ____
Red Mosque
fundamentalist teachers with links to global terrorism and jihad.
The Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.) is of the belief ____ may have been peddling ____ to unfriendly countries such as, ____
Dr. Abdul Khan
nuclear technology
Iran and North Korea and terrorist groups like al-Qaeda.
____ ruled Afghanistan from ____
The Taliban (“Students of Islamic Knowledge Movement”)
1996 until 2001.
Al-Qaeda has close ties to the following terrorist groups in Afghanistan:
Egyptian Islamic Jihad (E.I.J.) Jemaah Islamiyah (J.I.) Abu Sayyaf Group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) Haqqani Network
An August 2007 report by the United Nations found Afghanistan’s opium production ____ and the country supplies ____
doubled in two years
over ninety percent of the world’s heroin supply.
The ____ ideology includes forming an Islamic state in ____
Abu Sayyaf’s
the Philippines.
The government of Singapore discovered in 2001 ____ was planning to attack ____
JeMaah IslaMiyah (J.I.).
the British and United States embassies.
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 ____
2002 Bali nightclub bombings.
____ was responsible for the Tokyo subway sarin gas attack.
Aum Shinrikyo
____ is a small, but extreme group founded by ____, whose mandate is an independent state called “East Turkestan.”
The East Turkestan Islamic Movement (E.T.I.M.)
the Uighurs
North Korean’s have been referred to as ____ by Human Rights Watch, because of the severe restrictions placed on ____
“some of the world’s most brutalized people”
their political and economic freedoms.
Saudi royal family has well over _____ princes
6,000
Despite political pressure Saudi Arabia offered political asylum to:
- Ido Amin of Uganda
- SZine El Abdine Beh Ali of Tunesia
- Hosn Mubarek of Egypt
- Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan
Wahabism
: 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
Modern Kuwait govt. is a is a ____
constitutional monarchy
