Exam 9: The Persian Gulf

In 2002 President George W Bush denounced anyone who would appease terrorists or ignore threats to Europe.

Thirty nine U.S. servicemen were injured and seventeen killed in a suicide bombing of the USS Cole on October 12^th 2000 in the port city of:

In the late 1960s, the British presence in southern Yemen was ________, outside of Aden itself.

Like most Arab states Kuwait supported Iran during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988).

An insurgency requires the active or tacit support of at least a majority of the general population.

Al Qaeda's actual strength in Saudi Arabia may be small and limited to around 100 hard core members but it has sympathy with ________ of the population.

The Mahdi army is a Sunni militia movement led by Muqtada Sadr, a young, radical cleric.

The 2007 military surge by the U.S. military into Baghdad further loosened the Mahdi army's control of the streets.

Bin Laden has also encouraged Muslim Iraqis and non-Iraqis of all ethnic stripes to cooperate with the Iraqi government.

During the 1990s Iraq had established a third paramilitary force called the:

The Shah of Iran was restored to the Peacock Throne of Iran in 1953 with the assistance of:

The State of Kuwait is nominally a:

Immediately after the events of 9-11, the U.S. considered that the efforts by the Saudi regime to curtail and track down supporters of al Qaeda were sufficient.

Bin Laden and Zarqawi had based their calls for revolutionary change in Islamic societies on a stated belief in a model of governance where Muslim citizens would be empowered to choose and depose their leaders according to strict Islamic principles and traditions of consultation.

At the end of 2007 there was a growing Shiite revolt against the Yemeni government, led by the:

The al-Mahdi Army actively supports the Iraqi Police with security operations directed by the U.S. military.

Terrorists routinely claim that were they to adhere to any "law of war" or accept any constraints on the scope of their violence, it would place them at advantage vis-à-vis the establishment.

In early 2006, al Qaeda in Iraq posted an Internet statement saying it had joined five other insurgent groups in Iraq to form a new umbrella organization, the Mujahideen Shura Council.

The term Wahhabism is an ________ designation for the religious movement within Islam founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703-1792).

Saddam Hussein provided safe haven to Abu Abbas, a former Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Front.