Second Short Quiz

[johnkarls]

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1. Were the 2009 Christmas-Day bomber and the Times-Square bomber last May (and, indeed, the Shoe Bomber in 2002) considered successful by the U.S. intelligence services?

2. What is the relationship of the Christmas-Day bomber to the U.S. government's "kill list" in Yemen?

3. What is the relationship of the Christmas-Day bomber to President Obama's inability to close the terrorist-detention facility at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba?

4. Did the Co-Chairs of the 9-11 Commission (Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton) release a new report on 10 September 2010?

5. What was the principal reason for the report?

6. The two lawsuits we are studying concern the inclusion on the U.S. government's "kill list" of an American citizen because his father, a Yemeni citizen, was in the U.S. during his student days on a Fulbright Scholarship when his son was born -- is there any other country in the world that confers citizenship to everyone born within its borders?

7. Who said - "I'll have you arrested if you touch my junk"?

8. What has been the reaction to this famous quotation?

9. Does the reaction make sense?

10. As speculated in Suggested Answer No. 10 to last week's Short Quiz, was the acquittal in a New York federal court of an Al Qaeda terrorist on 284 out of 285 criminal charges the result of the judge's retroactive application of President Obama's Executive Order making water boarding and/or sleep deprivation torture?

11. What was the purpose of this trial if, as Hillary Clinton stated on Meet the Press last Sunday, the U.S. government would not have released the defendant even if he had been acquitted of all 285 criminal charges?

12. Are there prisoners at Guantanamo Bay that the Obama Administration has decided will not be released under any circumstances?