Several of Baghdadi's lieutenants were officers and intelligence officials in the party. ... US intelligence estimated an increase to around 20,000 foreign fighters in February 2015, including 3,400 from Western countries. ... A report by Sky News exposed documents showing that passports of foreign Islamists wanting to join ISIS by crossing into Syria had been stamped by the Turkish government. ... The conflicts in Syria and Iraq have attracted foreign fighters by the thousands. Middle Eastern and Western intelligence agencies have raised concern that their citizens who have joined the ...

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The current Secretary-General of the UN is Kofi Annan. He was born in Ghana, on the 8th of April 1938, and assumed his current post in January 1997, and was reappointed in January 2001. His career highlights have been a mission to ensure transfer to democratic rule in Nigeria in 1998, brokering an a...

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One person who backs the president's plan is Secretary of State Colin Powell, who is going to the United Nations on February 5 to share intelligence with its Security Council about Saddam Hussein not accounting for many biological and chemical weapons. ... One of these was hydrogen-based fuel cells, which would not only be cleaner than current fuels, but it would also decrease dependence on foreign oil, specifically Iraqi. ...

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March 2003 was a turning point in modern American and world history; it marked a change in foreign policy of America, moving from a defensive military policy, to one of pre-emptive war. ... Given the intelligence President Bush had, and the audacious crimes committed by the regime, President Bush was correct in sending our troops to Iraq. ... (Strobel) When discussing the military options in Iraq, President Clinton said, "Military bombing could remove Saddam's chemical, biological and nuclear weapons", which hints that he had strong intelligence that Iraq had a cache of banned weapons...

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Our government has become accustomed to solving our foreign policy disputes through military force rather than diplomacy. The legitimacy of this political ideology is that it makes us safer through a command of fear and up to date intelligence of the battle space; however, there is evidence to disprove this method of enforcing our policies. ... Our foreign policy makers have failed us entirely, leading us not to the road of prosperity but rather the road to Armageddon. ...

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With this law we have given sweeping new powers to both domestic law enforcement and international intelligence agencies and have eliminated the checks and balances that previously gave courts the opportunity to ensure that these powers were not abused. Most of these checks and balances were put into place after previous misuse of surveillance powers by these agencies, including the revelation in 1974 that the FBI and foreign intelligence agencies had spied on over 10,000 U.S. citizens, including Martin Luther King Jr. ...

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