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non-state actors
background to 9/11
Afghanistan
Iraq
Consequences
100
international terrorist group 'the base' (formed in the mid 90s)
What is al Qaeda?
100
Leader of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
Who is Saddam Hussein?
100
Name given by US military for their invasion of Afghanistan with special forces beginning in late 2001...
What is Operation Enduring Freedom?
100
The name of the ruling party in Iraq until the American invasion
What is the Ba'ath party?
100
'Daesh' or "Da'ash"
What is the Arab street name for the Islamic State (in Syria and Iraq)?
200
Second in command of al Qaeda and still believed to be alive somewhere.
Who is Ayman al Zawahiri?
200
This nation sent in an army to take over its much richer and smaller nation in the summer of 1990
What is Iraq?
200
President of the United States during the rise of al Qaeda in the 1990s...
Who is Bill Clinton?
200
US deaths as a result of war in Iraq up to Nov. 2015 (+/- 200)
What is 4,495?
200
Last publicly seen in Mosul, the man who would be Caliph
Who is abu-Bakr al Baghdadi?
300
Born in Yemen, spent time in Afghanistan fighting Soviets in 80s, fled Saudi Arabia in 1992 for Sudan and then back to Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001; then sometime to Pakistan where he died in May 2011.
Who was Osama bin Laden?
300
The several defeats of Arabs by the hands of this new state in the Middle East (in 1948, 1967, 1973, 1980...) helped create a sense of failure by secular Arab leaders among the broad Arab public in many Arab countries.
What is Israel?
300
Once the Taliban (in Afghanistan) had retreated under intense attack in 2002, this man was put in charge of the country.
Who is Hamid Karzai?
300
Name of the man who became a paranoid and so pro-Shiia that he 'lost' Iraq by pushing out the Sunni and the Kurds in 2010-2012
Who is Nouri al Maliki?
300
Approximately 2,000 of these fighters have recently moved from Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon in Syria.
What is Iran's latest move in the Syria conflict?
400
Name of the Caribbean special camp where prisoners swept up in the Afghan war and later the Iraq war were held.
What is Guantanamo? (a port town on the western coast of Cuba which the United States Marines and Navy have controlled since 1898)
400
US troops stayed in this country after the Gulf War from 1990 to 2007.
What is Saudi Arabia?
400
Name of the area in Afghanistan where Bin Laden's fighters were engaged in fire fights in late 2001 before slipping away into Pakistan.
What is Tora Bora?
400
This was 'declared' by the Bush Administration early in the war in 2003 when US troops reached Baghdad and the Republican Iraqi army had 'melted away'.
What is "mission accomplished"?
400
Approximately $2 trillion since 2001.
What is total cost of America's war programs across the world in the 'global war on terror'?
500
The leader of this branch of al Qaeda in Mesopotamia from 2003 to 2006?
Who is Abu Musab al Zarqawi?
500
The mosque in this city was taken over by militant apocalyptic Salafi Muslims in 1979.
What is Mecca?
500
Name of the leader of the Taliban (both in power and as an insurgency) until his recent death in 2013.
Who is Mullah Omar?
500
"...we seek to prevent the spread of terrorist activity through intervention....[including] preventive war against states that harbor and support terrorism."
What is the Bush Doctrine?
500
The relative success in 2007 to 2009 at building a workable government that included Kurds, Shiia and Sunni together in Iraq was squandered, or so says many who knew the situation on the ground in parts of Iraq. By late 2012, it seemed clear that the withdrawal of Americans had largely given this country a clear 'victory' in the Middle East as the single greatest influence in Iraq...
What is the ISLAMIC REPUBLIC of IRAN?