Gjest jentamedinnspill Skrevet 5. januar 2004 Skrevet 5. januar 2004 Question 1: Which country was the primary "sponsor" - in terms of weapons, training and funding - of Osama Bin Laden and his fighters during the 1980s? Answer: The United States of America. Question 2: Which country's spokesman saw "nothing objectionable" in the Taliban's seizure of power in Afghanistan in 1996? A: The United States of America. Question 3: Which country unilaterally withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty in December 2001? A: The United States of America. Question 4: Which country renounced the efforts to negotiate a verification process for the Biological Weapons Convention and brought an international conference on the matter to a halt in July 2001? A: The United States of America. Question 5: Which country unilaterally withdrew from the Kyoto treaty on global warming in March 2001? A: The United States of America. Question 6: Which country is the world's biggest polluter? A: The United States of America. Question 7: Which country prevented the United Nations from curbing the gun trade at a small arms conference in July 2001? A: The United States of America. Question 8: Which country is the world's largest exporter of arms? A: The United States of America. Question 9: Which country was responsible for a car bomb which killed 80 civilians in Beirut in 1985, in a botched assassination attempt, thereby making it the most lethal terrorist bombing in modern Middle East history? A: The United States of America. Question 10: Which country's illegal bombing of Libya in 1986 was described by the UN Legal Committee as a "classic case" of terrorism? A: The United States of America. Question 11: Aside from Somalia, which is the only other country in the world to have refused to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child? A: The United States of America. Question 12: Which is the only country in the West which still permits the execution of children (i.e. "persons under the age of 18")? A: The United States of America. Question 13: Which is the only G7 country to have refused to sign the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, forbidding the use of landmines? A: The United States of America. Question 14: Aside from China, which is the only other nuclear power to have refused to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)? A: The United States of America. Question 15: Which country rejected the order of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to terminate its "unlawful use of force" against Nicaragua in 1986, and then vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling on all states to observe international law? A: The United States of America. Question 16: Which is the only G7 country to have voted against the creation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 1998? A: The United States of America. Question 17: Which country refuses to hand over a variety of indicted war criminals, terrorists and mass murderers - all residing within its borders - to Cuba, Venezuela and Haiti? A: The United States of America. Question 18: Which country has provided approximately $100 billion in aid to a country [israel] which has maintained a 34-year occupation of land in defiance of international law? A: The United States of America. Question 19: Which was the only other country to join with Israel in opposing a 1987 General Assembly resolution condemning international terrorism? A: The United States of America. Question 20: Which country refuses to fully pay its debts to the United Nations yet reserves its right to veto United Nations resolutions? A: The United States of America. Question 21: Which country only ratified the Convention on the Prevention of Genocide in 1988, forty years after its passage at the United Nations? A: The United States of America. Question 22: Which country was accused by a UN-sponsored truth commission of providing "direct and indirect support" for "acts of genocide" against the Mayan Indians in Guatemala during the 1980s? A: The United States of America. Question 23: Which country is the driving force behind the current economic embargo on Iraq - responsible for the death of over half a million Iraqi children and described by one of its own legislators as "genocide masquerading as policy"? A: The United States of America. Question 24: Which is the only country in the world to have dropped bombs on twenty other countries since 1945? A: The United States of America. Question 25: Which is the only country in the world to have used all three types of "weapons of mass destruction" (chemical, biological and nuclear)? A: The United States of America. 0 Siter
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