After the Soviets began leaving Afghanistan in 1988, the UNited States
- paid more attention to potential profits than the region's political problems
- ignored issues and events in the region
- celebrated the end of the cold war
Head of Counterterrorism Richard Clarke, in the mid-1990s, failed to convince
high ranking officials of the dangers the US faced from a then obscure
- Osama Bin Laden
Some key deficiencies in the current US agriculture emergency-management
system include
- an overall decline in the pool of diagnostics
- a lack of resources
- inadequate forensic coordination among government entities
A large family operating in the tribal area of Pakistan, with ISI and militant group
relations, who can plan and administer complex terrorist attacks is the
- Haqqani network
Chechen female suicide bombers are known as
- Islamic martyrs
- women who suffered during Russian-Chechen conflicts
- Black widows
Guatanamo Detention Center is
- located on a 45 square mile navy station
- located on the southeastern coast of Cuba
- a prison divided into nine camps
The 1993 World Trade Center bombing had links to
- Egyptian IG
The phrase "the poor man's nuclear weapon," although misleading, is often used
to refer to a
- dirty bomb
Who was instrumental in convincing Osama Bin Laden of the need for an
umbrella-style organization that would be difficult to penetrate
- Ayman al Zawahiri
A raid by Indian troops in 1984 on theGoldeTemple (Temple of God), the sacred
shrine of Sikhism in Amristar (in response to a Sik faction seeking independence)
led to
- Sikhs forming terrorist cells
- targeting of Indian Security forces
- the assassination of India's Prime Minister
A deadly suicide mission by jihadists that took place in September 2004, resulting
in 330 deaths that included 156 children, occurred in
- North Ossetia
Examples of animal pathogens that are zoonotic include
- Rift Valley Fever
- screwworm
- avian influenza