Drone attack kills al-Qaeda leader in Yemen

Oct. 03, 2011

Q: The CIA launched a drone airplane strike last week that killed U.S.-born al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki and his companions in a car in Yemen. Where is Yemen?

Circle the area on this map

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Q: The name of Awlaki's al-Qaeda group includes which geographic term?

A. Horn of Africa

B. Arabian Peninsula

C. Middle East

D. Southern Hemisphere

Q: Besides Saudi Arabia and Yemen, Awlaki's group also has operated in Somalia. What separates Yemen and Somalia?

A. Persian Gulf

B. Dead Sea

C. Gulf of Aden

D. Mississippi River

Q: Yemen and Somalia are both . . .

A. Very poor

B. Monarchies

C. Heavily urbanized

D. All of the above

Q: An Islamic cleric, Awlaki was accused of recruiting and preparing a Nigerian man who tried but failed to set off a bomb in his underpants on a 2009 Christmas Day flight to which American city?

A. New York

B. Washington

C. Chicago

D. Detroit

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