Directions: Complete the following tasks.

• Be prepared to take a quiz on Thurs. questions.
• Read The Upheaval in Egypt and be able to discuss the potential impact of regime change in Egypt.

Directions: Watch Part One of Bush’s War on Frontline and be able to answer the following questions in class.

• What were the Bush’s administration’s reason for going to war in Iraq?

• How did the Bush administration “sell” the war to the American public?

Directions: Read the articles below and answer the questions. Please type your work.

The Salafist Movement

• What is Salafism? How is it connected to Al Qaeda?

Al Qaeda Today

• How has Al Qaeda evolved since 9/11?

Directions: Watch Al Qaeda’s New Front, take notes and be able to answer the questions below in class.

1. From what you saw in the program, what role does poverty, unemployment, marginalization and despair play in the recruitment of young Muslim men into jihadist movements in Europe? What do these movements provide for these recruits?
2. What did you learn in the film about Salafist and Takfir Islamic ideologies?
3. What are some reasons why terrorists choose to use Europe as a training ground?
   

Directions: Complete the following tasks.

• Know the 5 W’s about your desk.
• Have some ideas about your particular area of focus.
• Make sure there are some notes in noodle tools.

Directions: Complete the tasks below.

• Watch The Al Qaeda Code and answer the following questions.

1. What are the three pillars of Al Qaeda’s media strategy?
2. How does Al Qaeda use the internet to radicalize Muslim youth?
3. How can the West counter Al Qaeda’s message?

• Read the Al Qaeda Training Manuel and be able to discuss the groups targets and means of financing their operations.

Directions: Read the articles below and answer the following questions. Please type your work.

• Interview Osama Bin Laden
• Greetings America..
• Jihad Against Jewish and Crusaders

Why does Bin Laden hate the West and in particular US? Support your response with quotes from the documents.

Directions: Watch the Road to 9/11 take notes and be able to answer the following questions in class.

• What was the Muslim Brotherhood? Explain its message.
• Why was 1979 a pivotal year in the rise of Islamic Radicalism?
• Describe the origins of Al Qaeda? What are the reasons for its continued appeal?

Directions: Watch The Dark Side and take notes.  Be able to answer the following questions in class.

“A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies,” Cheney told Americans just after 9/11. He warned the public that the government would have to operate on the “dark side.”

• What did Cheney mean by the “Dark Side”? Give Examples.
• How did the Vice President take control of the war on terror?

Directions: Finish reading and annotating Chapter One: The Bush Revolution from the Daadler and Lindsay’s book America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy. Answer the following question (in a well-developed paragraph) for homework.  Support your response with quotes from the document and type your work.

• Why do many analysts believe Bush’s foreign policy was revolutionary? (How did it represent a break with the American foreign policy since WWII?)