Exam 14: Countering Terrorism

JTF-2 was set up as the central terrorist analysis center in support of the British security services.

The futility of using military combat units in a policing role was graphically demonstrated by the U.S. military in which country?

In November 2004, the U.S. Transportation Security Agency (TSA) began testing a new form of passenger prescreening called:

Avian Flue or "Bird Flu" is a highly contagious disease caused by viruses that normally only infects birds. The virus when it jumps from animals to human beings is identified as the ________ virus.

Prior to 9-11, the numbers of containers being screened as they enter the United States amounted to less than half of 1 percent of all container traffic.

Cutaneous anthrax occurs when anthrax spores come in direct contact with what?

Arabic news media, ________, is the largest and most controversial Arabic news channel in the Middle East.

The Army Ranger Wing is the elite counter terrorist force of the Republic of Ireland.

Operation Bojinka was planned in 1995 and was uncovered by ________ they stumbled by accident on a bomb making factory in an apartment block that had caught fire.

Six months after the crash of Pan Am 103 and FAA inspector reported that …the posture of Pan Am is considered safe; all passengers flying out of Frankfurt are no longer considered at risk.

In the 1990s the viewpoint of the FAA was basically that; it won't happen here, hijacking aircraft is not a North American problem.

The Stinger Missile is approximately 5 feet in length and weighs thirty-four pounds. It is manufactured by Raytheon and can be fired from a distance of five miles and has a vertical range of 10,000 feet.

An attack on a ship operating close to shore, often an opportunist attack, by pirates in small, high-speed, seagoing craft, with the intent to steal cash and personal valuables from the crew and the ship's safe. This is defined as a High-Level Armed Robbery (HLAR).

Israel was one of the first states to provide ________ on all its flights?

The Oxford English Dictionary defines "piracy" as "Murder, kidnapping, or violence committed at sea or from the sea without lawful authority, especially by one vessel against another."

The TSA began Secure Flight by compiling a "Terrorist No-Fly list" to be compared to names on an airline passenger manifest.

GSG-9 was formed following the disaster at:

The Israeli national airline El Al has been ________ passengers attempting to board its flights for the past thirty plus years with considerable success.

Civil libertarians and extreme left-wing agitators argue that the network of closed circuit television cameras throughout the major cities and the motorway systems of Great Britain has proved to be successful in tracking down terrorists who abandon vehicles packed with explosives.

At a global Threat Reduction Initiative conference in Vienna in 2004 the head of the U.N. Atomic Energy Agency stated that there are about 350 sites in 58 countries that possess highly enriched uranium and about two dozen of them with enough material to build a nuclear device.