Chapter 3 Flashcards
An islamic pronouncement or ruling– considered a scholarly opinion on Islamic law
Fatwa
The process of condemning and punishing a person by mob rule without any trial– dates back to the 18th century, when william Lynch self-instituted tribunals
Lynch Law
The USA_____ Act was signed into law by President George Bush Immediately after the 9-11 terror attacks
The Patriot Act
In Britain, the attacks in 2005 were the work of ________, so make no mistake, the same threat exists in the United states
Homegrown Terrorist
What was Dot No. 1 in “Connecting the Dots”
1993– World trade Center Bombing in New York City
During the 1993– World Trade Center Bombing in New York City Approximately _________ Tons of concrete and steel were displaced by the massive Blast
6,800
When Did the World Trade Center bombing in New York City happen?
At Approximately 12:18 p.m. February 26, 1993.
What happened during the World Trade Center Bombing in 1993?
An improvised explosive device in the back of a rental vehicle detonated on the second level of the parking basement. The resulting blast produce a crater approximately 150 feet in diameter and five floors deep in the parking basement
The World Trade Center Bombing killed _____ people and injured more than_____ people
Killed 6
Injured more than a thousand
World Trade Center bombing consisted of a Fusing system that was made from_____ lengths of nonelectric, burning-type fuses. The Fuse material ended up in lead azide acting as the_______
220- minute
Terminator/Initiator
What was Dot No. 2. in connecting the dots?
The Oklahoma City Bombing
True?False
The Oklahoma city Bombing was only one Bomb
False— it was 5
In the Oklahoma City Bombing A huge____ bomb destroyed most of the federal building
Truck
In the Oklahoma city Bombing left ____ dead and more than ___ injured
168 dead
500 injured
True/False
The Oklahoma City Bombing was caused by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols.
True
What was dot number 3 in connecting the dots?
1998 the u.s embassies targeted in Africa
Explosions rocked________ U.S. Embassies in _______ Africa
Two
East
1998 U.S. Embassies in Africa attacks were the result of?
Car bombs detonated near the two embassies, one in the capital of Kenya, Nairobi, and the other in Dar Es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania
1998 U.S. Embassies bombings took the lives of_______. And truck bombs were packed with _____ pounds of TNT
224 including 12 Americans
1,000
What was dot number 4 in connecting the dots?
200 the suicide bombing of the USS Cole
How many people were killed in the suicide bombing of the USS Cole?
Killed 17 sailors on a U.S Navy vessel that was docked in Yemen it was caused by a small inflatable packed with explosives that rammed in the port side of the ship above the waterline
What was dot number 5 in connecting dots?
2009 the underwear bomber Detroit
Underwear bomber was an attempt to blow up an____ over Detroit on what day?
Airliner
Christmas Day 2009
_______________ his an explosive device in his underpants
Omar Farouk Abdulmutallab
What is SLA?
Symbol near Liberation Army
What are the traditional attacker characteristics through our history
- Revolutionary nationalist groups
- extreme right-wing ideological groups (kkk)
- extreme left-wing ideological groups (weather underground)
- foreign groups operating in the U.S.
Religious extremist groups
How many hate groups are there active in the U.S.
926
True/False
The FBi identified a further decline in traditional led-wing domestic extremism and an increase in activities among extremists associated with right-wing groups and special-interest , radical organizations
True
The patriot act allows us_______ significant leeway in dealing with terrorist investigations and rarely if ever has the term _______ terrorism been applied to militia or extremist groups
Law enforcement
Terrorism
What was weather underground?
A activist group formed originally as a splinter group that believes that peaceful protests were ineffective. They began advocating violence as a means to social and political change.
Who bernardino Dohrn?
A mainstream leader for weather underground who proclaimed a declaration of war in March 1970 and three days later three weatherman were killed by one of their own bombs that accidentally detonated in their basement apartment in Manhattan
True/false
Over several decades left-wing-orient d extremist groups posed the predominant domestic terrorist threat in the U.S.
True
True/False
Right wing extremist groups are antigovernment or racist ideology
True
What are special interest extremist
Special interest extremist continue to conduct acts of politically oriented crime and terrorism
What is the TFVAAP
The department of justices task force on violence against abortion providers
Who was the black panthers?
The new black panther party for self-defense takes its name from the original black panther party formed by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, Cali. In 1966.
Black panthers
The original panthers combined militant black nationalism with Marxism and advocated black empowerment and self defense often through violent confrontation
Black panthers by 1969 the group had ________ members
5,000
