Subject: Morning Brief: Obama To Request Authorization for Iraq and Syria War
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Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 08:15:06 -0500 (EST)

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Obama To Request Authorization for Iraq and Syria War

Obama To Request Authorization for Iraq and Syria War

 <p>  <b>Top news: </b>In his  first public statement after the midterm elections, President Barack Obama <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71yrbc.2i72/VFtsVsPodVt8hXsXA4c1f style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">said</a>  he would ask Congress for a new authorization of force to fight the Islamic  State, the jihadist group currently operating in Iraq and Syria. The  authorization the White House is seeking will replace the 2001 Authorization  for the Use of Military Force against al Qaeda that provided the legal basis  for the invasion of Afghanistan and the 2002 authorization that gave legal  cover for the invasion of Iraq. The administration had relied on the previous  authorizations for the current campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and  Syria despite protests from members of both parties in Congress.  </p><br><p>  "We now have a different type of enemy. The strategy is  different, and how we partner with Iraq and other Gulf countries and the  international coalition, that has to be structured differently," Obama <a href="/..:..:..:Applications:Microsoft%20Office%202011:Microsoft%20Word.app:Contents:%2522We%20now%20have%20a%20different%20type%20of%20enemy.%20The%20strategy%20is%20different,%20and%20how%20we%20partner%20with%20Iraq%20and%20other%20Gulf%20countries%20and%20the%20international%20coalition,%20that%20has%20to%20be%20structured%20differently,%2522%20Obama%20said." style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">said</a>  at a press conference at the White House. It remains <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71yrbc.2i72/VFty6MPohQdh1YqWA2c3d style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">unclear</a>  if lawmakers will be willing to approve such an authorization.  </p><br><p>  In the same press conference the president also said his  administration would ask Congress for $6 billion to help <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71yrbc.2i72/VFty6MPohQdh1YqZA5a49 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">combat</a>  Ebola both in the United States, where there have been nine cases of the virus,  and in West Africa, where over 4,000 people have died from the outbreak. House  Speaker John Boehner said that Congress would review the funding request.  </p><br><p>  <b>Syria:  </b>U.S. airstrikes targeted the Khorasan Group, an  al Qaeda cell, near the Syrian city of Idlib, <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71yrbc.2i72/VFtsVsPodVt8hXsYAbf31 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">Foreign  Policy's Kate Brannen reports</a>. The strikes used both manned and unmanned  aircraft. According to <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71yrbc.2i72/VFty6cPohQdh1YqbA029e style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">Fox  News</a> a Predator drone strike killed David Drugeon, a 24-year-old French  convert to Islam who is believed to be Khorasan's chief bomb maker. The  Khorosan Group was one of the initial targets when the United States extended  its bombing campaign into Syria in September.  </p><br> 
 
  Africa  

<ul><p> &bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;Burkina Faso's political parties have <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71yrbc.2i72/VFty6sPohQdh1YqdA0cd5 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">agreed</a> to a year-long   political transition plan following the ouster of the president by protesters   last week. Elections will be held in 2015 but who will rule in the interim   period remains unclear.</p><br>   <p> &bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;Unknown assailants shot and <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71yrbc.2i72/VFty68PohQdh1YqgA29be style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">killed</a>   a Kenyan Muslim cleric who had been helping the government discourage   radicalization.</p><br>   <p> &bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;China's government will <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71yrbc.2i72/VFty68PohQdh1YqkA2d02 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">send</a>   around 1,000 medical workers and public health experts to West Africa to help   fight the Ebola outbreak there.</p><br>  </ul>     
  Europe  

<ul><p> &bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;German railway workers have <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71yrbc.2i72/VFty7MPohQdh1YqnAdf55 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">launched</a> a four-day   strike demanding higher pay just before national commemorations of the 25-year   anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.</p><br>   <p> &bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;A prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the   actor Alexei Devotchenko, was <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71yrbc.2i72/VFty7cPohQdh1YqqA4a33 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">found</a>   dead in his Moscow apartment in what his friends say was a murder.</p><br>   <p> &bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;Georgia's foreign minister <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71yrbc.2i72/VFty7cPohQdh1YqtA8207 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">quit</a>   the government following the firing of the defense minister the day before. One   of the six parties has now left the governing coalition.</p><br>  </ul>     
  Asia  

<ul><p> &bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71yrbc.2i72/VFty7sPohQdh1YqxAd819 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">clashed</a>   with police at one of the three remaining protest camps, the first such clashes   in over two weeks.</p><br>   <p> &bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pakistan <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71yrbc.2i72/VFty78PohQdh1YqzA1fff style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">arrested</a>   dozens of people after a mob beat to death and burned a Christian couple   accused of burning a Quran.</p><br>   <p> &bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71yrbc.2i72/VFty8MPohQdh1Yq4Ada52 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">said</a>   that Western governments shouldn't yet praise democratization in her country.</p><br>  </ul>     
  Middle East  

<ul><p> &bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;The International Criminal Court's top prosecutor <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71yrbc.2i72/VFty8MPohQdh1Yq-A9ef8 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">said</a> that   although she believes Israel may have committed war crimes during a deadly raid   on a Gaza-bound boat of activists, she will not pursue the case.</p><br>   <p> &bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;In its annual review, the United Nations Human Rights   Council strongly <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71yrbc.2i72/VFty8cPohQdh1YrDAaad1 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">criticized</a>   the government of Egypt. U.S. and U.K. representatives urged Egypt to   investigate abuses by its security forces.</p><br>   <p> &bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;Armed men <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71yrbc.2i72/VFty8sPohQdh1YrGA82a1 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">stormed</a>   El Sahara oil field in southern Libya. It is the largest oil field in the   country.</p><br>  </ul>     
  Americas  

<ul><p> &bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;The body of Jes&uacute;s Antonio Gamboa Ur&iacute;as, a Mexican journalist   who went missing a week ago, was <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71yrbc.2i72/VFty8sPohQdh1YrIAe228 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">found</a>   dead in the northwestern Sinaloa state.</p><br>   <p> &bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;Brazil's environment minister <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71yrbc.2i72/VFty88PohQdh1YrLA0510 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">said</a>   that her government will hold richer countries accountable for making strong   carbon reduction commitments during upcoming climate change summits.</p><br>   <p> &bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;Brazilian authorities are <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71yrbc.2i72/VFty9MPohQdh1YrOA80b4 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">investigating</a>   reports that a police officer killed nine civilians in a revenge attack in a   small town in the country's north.   </p><br>  </ul>     
- By Max Strasser 

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