Answers to questions posted yesterday... 1. B. Oil-rich Qatar occupies a small peninsula in the Persian Gulf. Its sole land border is with Saudi Arabia to the south. Qatari officials negotiated the prisoner exchange. 2. C. The Talibans stronghold is along both sides of the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Islamic fundamentalist Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in the mid-1990s with military support by Pakistan and financial support by Saudi Arabia. U.S.-led forces ousted the Taliban in 2001. 3. D. At the time of the war, Afghanistans northern neighbors - Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan - were part of the Russian-dominated Soviet Union. The Soviets left Afghanistan in 1989, and some of the fighters supported by the U.S. went on to lead the Taliban and the terrorist group Al-Qaeda. 4. A. The Reagan administration secretly arranged to sell arms to Iran to win the release of seven Americans held by a Lebanon militants with Iranian ties. Some money from the sale was used to fund rebels in Nicaragua. U.S. law banned both arms sales to Iran and aid to the Nicaragua rebels.
Posted on: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 13:26:42 +0000
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