Crime Analysis & Investigative Intel Exam #1

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In the security bunker beneath the White Housecomplex, top government officials including VP Cheney heard that one of thehijacked aircraft appeared to have crashed. It was shortly after 10:20 in the morningwhen they had just finished speaking to President Bush aboard Air Force One.The report referred to United Airlines Flight 93, which had recently crashed ina Pennsylvania field. What did they initially think this crash represented?

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They thought that the President had authorizedthe military to destroy these aircraft; they thought that it had been shot

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The crime intelligence analysis process thatworks most effectively consists of several sequential steps, and these aredepicted in the schematic diagram below.

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Data --> Information --> Knowledge --> Results --> Collection --> Analysis --> Dissemination --> Action

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The leader of the 911 attacks was an Egyptianmember of Al Qaeda. His name is what?

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Mohamed Atta

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He and an accomplice began their journey on themorning of September 11, 2001 at the airport ____________________? (Name of thecity & state)

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Portland, Maine

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The holy book of the Islamic faith is the Qur’an(sometimes Anglicized as the Koran), and the ___________ is another fundamentalreligious text that details the sayings and deeds of the Prophet Mohammed?

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Hadith

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In chapter 3 of the 911 Commission Report, onpage 90, the English noun “nadir” is used. What does this word mean?

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Lowest point or rock bottom

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How did most federal agencies and the seniorleaders learn that the hijackers had crashed an airliner into the World TradeCenter at 8:46 am? They learned about it from _____________________________?

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Television news on CNN

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President Bush was visiting an elementary schoolin Sarasota, Florida. At first, he was told that a small twin-engine aircraftor an airliner has smashed into one of the towers in New York City, probablydue to pilot error. The President initially responded by______________________________?

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Continuing his school visit

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Usama Bin Laden (the spelling Osama is probablymore common in English texts) began to threaten the United States in 1992. In1996 he issued a statement that mentioned the Soviet defeat in the country of___________________?

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Afghanistan

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Osama Bin Laden was a declared self-styled___________ calling on Muslims to drive the Americans out of Saudi Arabia.

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Fatwa

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In 1996 and again in an ABC TV interview in1998, Osama Bin Laden referred to the U.S. battles and withdrawal fromcountries of Lebanon and ___________ as heroic examples oh how Muslim forcescould prevail.

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Somalia

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The word “Islam” refers to a category of Muslimreligious beliefs and literally means what?

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Surrender one’s self or surrenders to the willof god

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After the death of the Prophet Mohammed in 632A.D., the task of selecting a new leader, or caliph, for the faith wasundertaken. This took an extended period of time, and it led to the developmentof two different forms of the religion based on the rules of succession.Battles were fought over this issue, and the _________ became the majoritysect, while the __________ became dominant in Iran.

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Sunni, Shia

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The National Security Agency (NSA) interceptsforeign communications that are not intended for Americans and studies foreignaspects of technical communications systems, codes, and organizationalstructures. This process is known as ______________.

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Traffic analysis (communication)

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The NRO is also a federal government intelligenceagency, and it operates the American spy satellite system. Those assets couldhave been used to inspect the punctured and broken wing on the Space Shuttle,but NASA managers stopped efforts to move this equipment into position,decisions that ultimately led to the Colombia disaster and the loss of seven(7) astronauts. Those assets can be used to image crime-related locations ifthe offenses are serious enough and the satellites can be readjusted to imagethose areas. What does NRO stand for?

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National Reconnaissance Office

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In 1995, President Bill Clinton proposedmeasures to improve the federal investigative capabilities in the aftermath ofthe bombing of the government Murrah Building in Oklahoma City. One provisionrequired manufacturers to use “taggants”, which are what?

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Tags used to trace the origin of the explosives

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In 1998, the American intelligence establishmentfailed to adequately predict the unexpected nuclear weapons tests conducted bywhom?

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India and Pakistan

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The apparent plan for the hijackings called forfour (4) teams of five (5) men each, yet only nineteen (19) hijackers managedto board their assigned target aircraft. The team that took over UnitedAirlines Flight 93 only has four men on board. This plane was the last of thefour aircraft to take off, in this case from Newark Airport in New Jersey. Itis the flight that ultimately crashed in a Pennsylvania field after thepassengers apparently attacked the hijackers. The missing member of thehijacker team is thought to have been stopped by immigration inspectors where?

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Orlando, Florida

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Once the millennium began, UBL’s Al Qaedamembers launched one more attack against American interests before thespectacular 911 strikes. That attack occurred on October 12, 2000, and itconsisted of the assault on _________________ that occurred in __________________.

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The USS Cole, Yemen

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What is the undesirable practice that keepsimportant information from being appropriately disseminated, and depicted inthe flow chart referred to in class?

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Protection

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What did Peterson add to the intelligenceanalysis flow chart that actually starts out the whole process before thecollection activity begins?

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Planning and Directions

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Slowly during the 1990’s, it became clear toAmerican intelligence officials that Usama Bin Laden (UBL) was a threat to thenational security of the United States. On August 7, 1998 [or 7 August 1998 inthe European and U.S. military date format], two nearly simultaneous bombingattacks were launched against the U.S. embassies in _________________ and_______________.

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Kenya, Tanzania

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The fanatical Islamic regime that controlledmost of Afghanistan in the late 1990’s was asked by the United States and otherconcerned nations to expel UBL. Their ruler was a Muslim cleric named______________________. He and his followers refused to evict UBL and hisassociates. This group that ruled Afghanistan at the end of the late 1990’s wascalled the __________________.

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Mullah Omar, Taliban

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Under the dedicated leadership of UBL, the AlQaeda organization began to join forces with other jihadist groups in the late1990’s. Planning for what became the 911 attacks then began in the earnestunder the tactical discretion of its leader and architect. The plan wasdesigned to overcome problems experienced in an earlier attack, which was__________________ in _____________________.

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The bombing attack on the World Trade Center,1993

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The scope of Al Qaeda operations was becomingclear to U.S. intelligence agencies as the 1990’s drew to a close. Terroristcells with links to Al Qaeda were identified in Western and Eastern Europeancountries in addition to their presence throughout the Middle East and Africa.One cell was discovered in the city of Tirana in ________________ connectedwith a criminal __________ operation. With the assistance of authorities fromthat country, operatives from the CIA raided that facility and took some AlQaeda members into custody.

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Albania, Forgery

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During the final years of the 1990’s, the U.S.official with the most intense focus on the UBL threat from Al Qaeda was incharge of the interagency CSG, the Counterterrorism Security Group. Thatofficial has admitted to being “obsessed” with Bin Laden. His name is__________________.

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Richard Clarke

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Although a lot of unconfirmed intelligence wascoming in during those last years before the new millennium, one reportincluded the Presidential Brief on December 4, 1998, warned of UBL plans to_____________________.

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Hijack U.S. aircraft and to use anti-aircraftmissiles against U.S. aircraft

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The effort to get UBL in his Afghan sanctuaryfurther developed in 1999, when the CSG and other counter-intelligenceofficials in the U.S. decided to promote the formation of a partnership with anafghan resistance group that was fighting the ruling regime. That group wasknown as the __________________.

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Northern Alliance

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As the new millennium got under way, animportant tactical leader for Al Qaeda was consulting with UBL and acting asthe architect for the 911 attacks. His name was ___________________.

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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM)

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Text mining and indexing of typed records onpaper must add an OCR capability, which stands for what?

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Optical Character Recognition

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Peterson mentions that the intelligence protocolshould be “share by _______________” and withhold by ________________.

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Rule, Exception

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Peterson’s advice on effective intelligenceanalysis points out that there should be a good relationship between whom?

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Analysts and agents (cops, police officers)

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Flint firmly believes that it’s important toassign police analysts to operational ________________ and not to analyst_______________.

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Squads (units, groups, teams), Pools

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The Al Qaeda organization frequently moved moneyit raised from wealthy donors in Arab Gulf states by an informal and ancienttrust-based system fro transferring funds without involving banks, known as thewhat?

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Hawala

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The 911 Commission estimated that the two yearsspent planning and executing the largely successful 911 attacks cost Al Qaedaapproximately how much?

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$400,000 to $500,000

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On December 14, 1999, a Canadian resident in thecountry illegally from Algeria, who was well trained in bomb and gas attacksand committed to jihad, took a ferry with his rental car from Vancouver inCanada to Port Angeles in the American state of Washington. His name was AhmedRassam, and he was 23 years old. What happened next?

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He was profiled by U.S. Customs officers for hisnervous behavior on the ferry, and he was subjected to a secondary inspection.These officers began to pat him down, and he tried to break free and run away,but was unsuccessful. Bomb making materials destined for LAX on January 1stwere found.

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The leader of the Afghan forces that were fightingagainst a government that supported the presence and activities of Bin Ladenwas a man named Ahmed Shah ______________?

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Massoud