Chapter 23 Self-test questions

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. In which of these groups was Ayman al-Zawahiri a key figure?

Hezbollah correct incorrect

Black September correct incorrect

Al Qaeda correct incorrect

Hamas correct incorrect

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. Who was the leader of South Africa's National Party in the April 1994 election?

Dick Cheney correct incorrect

Donald Rumsfeld correct incorrect

Condoleezza Rice correct incorrect

Richard Clarke correct incorrect

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. How did the Bush Administration justify the denial of protection under the Geneva Convention to enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan?

The Geneva Convention only applied in large-scale, conventional wars like the Second World War correct incorrect

Al Qaeda fighters belonged to a stateless entity and the Taliban to a failed state, so they were unlawful combatants correct incorrect

Al Qaeda and the Taliban were terrorist organisations correct incorrect

The United States ceased to be a signatory of the Geneva Convention on setting up the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay correct incorrect

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. Who won the November 2004 Afghan Presidential election?

Hamid Karzai correct incorrect

Mullah Omar correct incorrect

Mohammed Najibullah correct incorrect

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed correct incorrect

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. In which Afghan province did British forces experience serious difficulties in conducting counter-insurgency operations?

Peshawar correct incorrect

Kabul correct incorrect

The North-West Frontier correct incorrect

Helmand correct incorrect

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. Who was sacked as US commander in Afghanistan in 2010 because of an article that appeared in Rolling Stone magazine?

Joe Biden correct incorrect

David Petreaus correct incorrect

David McKiernan correct incorrect

Stanley McChrystal correct incorrect