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A. In the longest war in its history, the United States has been fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan since 2001. Pakistan is bordered by Afghanistan on the north and northwest, China on the northeast, India on the southeast, the Arabian Sea on the south and Iran on the southwest.
D. More than 96 percent of Pakistan’s approximately 205 million people follow Islam. The Taliban are Sunni Muslim militants who follow the Salafi jihadism of Osama bin Laden.
C. Salafism is the dominant religious sect in Saudi Arabia and is supported by the House of Saud royal family, which rules the nation as an absolute monarchy. It also was the religion of Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born leader of the Al-Qaeda terrorist group that attacked the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001.
B. The United States did not inform Pakistan before the May 2, 2011 raid on the fortified complex of buildings that was probably built for bin Laden. The compound was located less than a mile from Pakistan Military Academy and about a 60-mile drive from Pakistan's capital, Islamabad.