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What is ELF?

Earth Liberation Front

What is ALF?

Animal Liberation Front

What is ELF's parent organization?

Earth First

What are the core goals of ELF?

a. To cause maximum economic damage to targets perceived to be profiting fromdestruction of the environment, educate the public about such atrocities, and instill fear in targets and otherlike entities.


b. To cause as much economicdamage as possible to a given entity that is profiting off the destruction ofthe natural environment for selfish greed and profit


c. To educate the publicabout the atrocities committed against the environment and to take allNECESSARY precaution to avoid harming life.


How does ELF describe itself?

An international underground organization that usesdirect action in the form of economic sabotage to stop the exploitation anddestruction of the natural environment.


What is a Special-Interest Intelligence Group?

A group that forcibly seeks to resolve the specificissue of perceived environmental harm rather than effect widespread politicalchange.

Most ELF members are...

a. Educated teenagers or young adults from themiddle class.


b. Nearly all have a known history ofenvironmental activism.

What is the primary modeof attack for domestic terrorists?

Arson

Who or what is SHAC?

Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC)

What does the acronym "PETA" stand for?

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

Who/what is ARM?

Animal Rights Militia

How many attacks havebeen committed by Domestic Terrorists since 1990?

1200

What is Green Anarchy?

A concern with theeffects of civilization on the global environment.

What is the general precept of Green Anarchy?

NOT that civilizationneeds to be reconstructed, but rather that it needs to be overthrown in itsentirety and never replaced.

Whatis a new tactic for the animal rights movement?aced.

Flooding

What was the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act(AETA) intended to accomplish?

a. Strengthen protection for animal researchers.

What was Walter Bond’s “Nom de guerre”?

ALF Lone Wolf

Louis Beam identified two tiers of Leaderless resistance; They are?

First tier: Adheres to the laws of the land and serve as the above ground propaganda service for the Cause.




Second tier: Composed of anonymous individual (lone wolves) and small group of activists (phantom cells) who are responsible for conducting attacks – “direct action”

Three general characteristics of ELF/ALF personnel are?

1) Intentionally nebulous and promote leaderless resistance,


2) Transient and nomadic


3) Activists tend to be young Caucasians

What was not a target of ELF’s first operation onColumbus Day (October 14th), 1996

Genetically engineered tree farm

True orFalse: ELF targets have always beenproperty?

True

True or False: ELF is a global movement with cells active inmore than twenty countries.

True

What is a deep ecology? (biocentrism)

Abelief that all living entities, human and non-human, have equal worth andvalue and an inherent right to exist and prosper

20.) The Earth Liberation Front can best be definedas?

Anti-capitalist

20.) How many periodicals regularly published in theUS document and promote ELF sympathies?

Eight

What four reasons do terrorist networks need a failed state?

1. Providethe opportunity to acquire territory on a scale much larger than a collection of scattered safehouses.


2. Acquirede facto control.


3. Allowsgroups to develop business interests and generate income.


4. Transshipmentpoints-can legitimately purchase weaponry.

What arethe four main categories of sanctions resulting from a U.S. State Departmentdesignation of a nation being a State Sponsor of Terrorism?


1. Restrictions on U.S. foreign assistance;


2. Ban on defense exports and sales;


3. Certain controls over exports of dual use items; and


4. Miscellaneous financial and other restrictions.

Who arethe four countries identified as “state sponsors of terrorism” for the UnitedStates?

1. Cuba (1982)


2. Iran (1984)


3. Syria (1979)


4. Sudan (1993)

What arethe two main theories of international relations:

1. Realism


2. Idealism

True or False: If you believe in the Bismarck (Realpolitcs) style of international relations you are an Idealist?

False

Define "Irregular Warfare"

A violent struggle among state andnon-state actors for legitimacy and influenceover the relevant population(s).

True or False: the Islamic Republic of Iran has alwaysconsidered terrorism a legitimate tool of foreign policy?


True

Whatdoes Ommol-ghora translate into?

The heart of the Islamic world

What is the primary mission of the Republic of Iran?

The establishment of anIslamic state worldwide and the conversion of allpeoples to its Islamic ideology.


Whohave been the two Supreme Leaders during the entirety of the Islamic Republicof Iran?

1. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini


2. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Whenwas the U.S. Marine Barracks in Lebanon attacked by a suicide bomber?

1983

True or False: Every attack, carried out by Iran’s proxieswas approved by Iran’s Supreme Leader?

True

Whenwas Imad Mughniyah finally killed?

February, 2008

Whowas finally prosecuted for the Bojinka plot (to bomb a dozen U.S. civilaircraft over the Pacific Ocean)

Ramzi Yousef

True orFalse: Iran has long been one of themost important and dangerous sponsors of terrorism in the world?

True

True orFalse: Terrorism has continued andremains an important foreign policy instrument for Iran in its confrontationwith its neighbors


True

What is not one of the strategic options thatIran uses terrorism for?

Providing shelter and training

What countries did Iran NOT attempt a terroristact in 2012

Columbia

Religiousmotivated terrorism is the Fourthwave in the evolution of terrorism. What were the first three?

1. Breakup of empires


2. De-colonization


3. Anti-Westernism

MarkJuergensmeyer identified three elements that Islamist, radical Christians, andother religious terrorists share, what are they?

1. Perceive their objective as a defense of basic identity and dignity


2. Losing the struggle would be unthinkable 3. The struggle is in deadlock and cannot be won in real time or in real terms

Cultural features among new international terrorists groups are?

1. Concept of righteous “killing-as-healing”


2. Totalsocial destruction as part of a process of ultimate purification


3. Preoccupationwith weapons of mass destruction


4. Cultof personality where one leader dominates his followers who seek to become perfectclones.

One of the majorconsequences of globalization has been?

The deterioration of the power of the state

What is not one of the organizations mentionedby Anthony Celso as examples of quazi – religious extremism?


Aryan Nations

What organization did Kaplan argue was thegenesis of the fifth wave of modern terrorism?

Khmer Rouge

What is not one of David Rapoports four waves ofterrorism?

Cyber

Name five of the seventeen distinctive qualities of fifth wave terrorism.

a. A devolution from a preexisting terror wave


b. A “hopeful extreme idealismc. A physical withdraw into the hinterland


d. A desired aim to recreate a past “golden age” bybeginning the calendar anew


e. An intent to destroy the old world and create apure new society


f. An inability to compromise and the use of forceagainst internal dissidents


g. A belief in perfectibility f humans and thecreation of a new man


h. A quest for anew society leading to genocidalviolence


i. Violence as a way of group life


j. An emphasis on the subjugation of women andchildren


k. Recruitment of child soldiers an child brides


l. The use of rape as a terror tactic


m. A continuous cycle of violence engaged by the groupacross generation


n. A particularistic emphasis on racial purity andethno-tribal centrism


o. Pragmatic reliance on foreign allies to enhancegroups survival


p. Charismatic and authoritarian leadership


q. An apocalyptic world view buttressed by intensereligious commitment

True orFalse: Arabic and Islamist animus towardKurds, Berbers, Coopts, Sudanese black Muslims reflect nostalgia for renewedrule over ethno-religious minorities.

True

Who developed the “el foci” insurgency theory?

Che Guevara

What are the three characteristics of a Black Swan Attack?

a. Highimprobability


b. Highimpact


c. Explicableonly after the event


True orFalse: Transnational terrorism willcontinue to be treated as an existential threat rather than a criminal activitybecause of the way in which human being confront low probability burpotentially large loss events.

True

Define the two types of thinking that DanielKhaneman discussed.

a. Type 1 = Emotive, intuitive, non-reflective


b. Type 2 = Rational and calculating

What are the two new directions that terrorshows every sign becoming more sophisticated?

1. More funds to provide hypermodern devices to be “capitalists of death.”


2. Ability to operate easy remote control mechanisms and state-of-the-art communication

What is the main advantage of Chemical weapons overbiological weapons?


Chemical weapons are easier to produce.

Since 1968 how many of the 8000 terrorist attackwere attempted to make use of chemical or biological weapons?


60

What are the most effective defenses against theterrorist threat to use mass destruction weapons?

1. Good intelligence


2. Efficient procedures to control the entry of people in material


3. Means to respond effectively to incidents

How many Tunisian citizens have fought in Syria?

2560

True orFalse: Rival jihadist groups seemed tofavor the younger, more vibrant ISIS supporters.

True

True orFalse: The preservation of public orderjustifies the dissolution of a political party calling to violence or praisingterrorism.

True

Whatarticle in The European convention on Human Rights (ECHR) prohibits torture?

Article 3

True or False? Anarchy was born from the philosophical beliefthat people could prosper without government, and that the lack of governmentauthority would result in equality and justice for all people.


True

Who wasthe most famous group to embrace illegalism?

Bonnot Gang

What is the key feature of the "Briggs Plan"?

That the best way to defeat an insurgency was tocut the insurgents off from their supporters amongst the population.

Theacronym “DIME” equates to instruments of national power. What does this acronym stand for?


a. Diplomatic


b. Information


c. Military (force)


d. Economic

What do the following words mean:


a. Jus ad Bellum


b. Jus in Bello


c. No maullum in se

a. just cause for war


b. just, or lawful, acts in war


c. soldiers may not use weapons or other methods of warfare which are considered evil.

What is the ultimate goal of a terrorist nationalideology?

To achieve independence for the nation.

What is an important component of deterrence?

Theperception by the terrorist organization that the deterring state enjoys“intelligence dominance”

Trueor False: A nationalist movement isusually rooted in the interests of its constituency host population?

True

What is not one of the main pillars of deterring terrorist organizations?

Decreasing immigration pressures on the host population

What is a surrogate terrorist organization?

Terrorist organizations which are not separate from the state that supports them


Define the term "Lawfare"

The exploitationof real, perceived, or even orchestrated incidents of law-of-warviolations being employed as an unconventional means of confronting a superiormilitary power.


What was not one of the reforms of the 2004Intelligence Reform and Terror Prevention Act (IRTPA)

Authorized extraordinary techniques on high value detainees

Whendid the National Security Act become law?

1947



When was the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act(FISA) passed?

1978

Whatdid the 2006 USA PATRIOT Re-Authorization and Improvement Act create?

Created within the Department of Justice a National Security Division

Howlong did the Protect America Act of 2007 last?

195 days

Whatdid the three updated elements of FISA Amendments Act of 2008 provide forNational security and law enforcement?

1. Provided protection for corporations cooperating with the Federal government in compliance with FISA Warrants issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.


2. Served as a national security exception to the provisions of the general ban on wiretaps under Federal Criminal Law.


3. Authorized surveillance and collection against a U.S. person outside the United States, without a warrant (issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in accordance with the FISA), for up to one week.

Howmany years did President Obama extended the provisions of the 2008 FISAAmendment Act?

5 years

True or False: Terrorist incidents doubled inthe second half of the1990’s?

False

What are two areas that we should focus on incounter-terrorism?

1. LEO techniques


2. Military techniques

What are the best two elements to build afoundation of international cooperation overtime?

1. sustained military campaign


2. law enforcement

Whenwas Osama bin Laden killed?

May 2nd

Whatwere the three major events in 1979 that profoundly upset relations between democratic nations and the Muslimworld?

1. Revolution in Iran


2. Armed Muslim extremists set siege to theGrand Mosque to “cleanse” theholiest site in Islam


3. USSR Invaded Afghanistan

What is fard ayn?

Anindividual obligation – for all Muslims, rich or poor, to self-mobilizeand deploy as a warrior of God.

Whofounded the Maktab al Khidamat (MAK), the Afghan Services Bureau?

Abduallah Azzam

Trueor False: Ayman al –Zawahiri wrote Milestones?


False

Whowas the greatest ideological and strategic thinker of greatest significance to Global Jihad?


Brigadier S.K. Malik

Accordingto Dr. Thomas Marks what are the two schools of insurgent thought?


1. Focoist


2. People’s War school of insurgency

According to Dr. Gorka what is notone of the four principles that should be used inthe U.S. Strategic re-evaluation?

The United States Congress needs to provide the United States Intelligencecommunity the legal framework for enhanced interrogationtechniques.

According to ourConstitution who is responsible for the conduct of War?

The political branches

Whostated: “Any kind of services necessaryto the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.”

Captain Nathan Hale

Whatreport recommended that “We must develop effective espionage andcounterespionage services…”?


Doolittle Report on Communism

True or False: The public should know about specific operations or sensitive sourcesand methods?

False

True or False: Congress and the Executivebranch should make the rules?

True

What four thing must an agency (or person) do with intelligence?

1. Zealously collected


2. Meticulously analyzed


3. Rapidly disseminated


4. Efficaciously acted on