What former National Security Advisor chaired an organization dedicated to promoting the anti-Russian Wahhabi Insurgency in Chechnya?
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American Committee for Peace in Chechnya Founded in 1999, the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya is the only private, non-governmental organization in North America exclusively dedicated to promoting the anti-Russian Wahhabi insurgency in Chechnya (Second Chechen war). Chaired by former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, former Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig and former Congressman Stephen J. Solarz, the committee is composed of more than one hundred distinguished Americans representing both major political parties and nearly every walk of life.
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Zbigniew Brzezinski Zbigniew Kazimierz "Zbig" Brzezinski ( ; ] ; March 28, 1928 – May 26, 2017) was a Polish-American diplomat and political scientist. He served as a counselor to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968 and was President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981. Brzezinski belonged to the realist school of international relations, standing in the geopolitical tradition of Halford Mackinder and Nicholas J. Spykman.
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Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation
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Congress of the Peoples of Ichkeria and Dagestan The Congress of the Peoples of Ichkeria and Dagestan (Russian: Конгресс народов Ичкерии и Дагестана ; abbreviated CPID) was an Islamist terrorist organization under the joint control of Chechen rebel leaders, founded in 1998. One of its subordinates was the Islamic International Brigade, a mujahideen movement that was a major combatant in the War of Dagestan. The objective of the CPID was to establish an Islamic caliphate in the North Caucasus.
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Muhammad Rizieq Shihab Muhammad Rizieq Shihab (; "] ") also known as Habib Rizieq (born in Jakarta, August 24, 1965) is an Indonesian Islamic scholar, demagogue, the founder and leader of the Islamist group Islamic Defenders Front (Arabic: الجبهة الدفاعة الاسلميه‎ ‎ ; Indonesian: "Front Pembela Islam" , abbreviated as FPI).
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Charles H. Swannack Jr. Charles H. "Chuck" Swannack Jr. is a former general officer in the United States Army who, once retired, called for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
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Adil Shayakhmetov Adil Shayakhmetuly Shayakhmetov (; born 20 January 1956) was the head of Kazakhstan's National Security Committee (NSC) from December 2009 to August 2010.
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Robert G. Gard Jr. Robert Gibbins Gard Jr. (born January 28, 1928) is a retired United States Army lieutenant general and former chairman of the board of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation where his work focuses on nuclear nonproliferation, missile defense, Iraq, Iran, military policy, nuclear terrorism, and other national security issues.
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Barry Posen Barry Ross Posen (born July 13, 1952) is Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT and the director of MIT's Security Studies Program. An expert in the field of security studies, he currently serves on the editorial boards of the journals "International Security" and "Security Studies" and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and served as a study group member for the Hart-Rudman Commission.
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Igor Sechin Igor Ivanovich Sechin (Russian: Игорь Иванович Сечин , born 7 September 1960 in Leningrad, Soviet Union) is a Russian official, considered a close ally and "de facto deputy" of Vladimir Putin. Sechin is often described as one of Putin's most conservative counselors and the leader of the Kremlin's "Siloviki" faction, a lobby gathering former security services agents. Until 21 May 2012, he served as Deputy Prime Minister of Russia in Vladimir Putin's cabinet and he is currently the Executive Chairman of Rosneft, the Russian state oil company.
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National Security Council of Georgia The National Security Council (NSC) of Georgia is an advisory body for the President of Georgia dealing with matters of national security. The current Secretary of the National Security Council of Georgia is Davit Rakviashvili.
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Center for Security Policy The Center for Security Policy (CSP) is a conservative, Washington, D.C.-based think tank. The organization's founder and current president is Frank Gaffney Jr. The organization's mission statement is "To identify challenges and opportunities likely to affect American security", where main activities are focused on exposing and researching what it believes to be jihadist threats to the United States. The Center has been accused of engaging in conspiracy theorizing by a range of individuals, media outlets and organizations. It has been described as "not very highly respected" by BBC News. In 2016, the Southern Poverty Law Center described the CSP as a hate group and a "conspiracy-oriented mouthpiece for the growing anti-Muslim movement", a characterization disputed by the CSP.
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John Nicholas Brown Chair of Counterterrorism Following al Qaeda's attacks on 9-11 the Naval War College Foundation established the John Nicholas Brown Chair of Counterterrorism.
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Ehab Al Shihabi Ehab Al Shihabi (born 1970) is a Jordanian-American media professional, advisor to the Director General at Al Jazeera Media Network. He was the network's former Executive Director of international operations, Chief Executive Officer of Al Jazeera America, and deputy managing director of Al Jazeera English. Shihabi is an Edward R. Murrow Center Senior Fellow at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and writes opinion pieces for "The Huffington Post", "Inc. Magazine", and other outlets.
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Massoud Foundation The Massoud Foundation (founded as the Ahmad Shah Massoud Foundation; Dari Persian: بنیاد شهید احمد شاه مسعود ) is a non-profit and non-governmental organization operating in Afghanistan. It was established in Kabul in 2003 to preserve and spread the values, leadership, and ideals of the late Ahmad Shah Massoud, the Lion of the Panjshir, who was a founding father of the resistance against the Soviet invasion in the 1980s and then against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in the 1990s until he was assassinated by Al-Qaeda just two days prior to 9/11.
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Michael Ledeen Michael Arthur Ledeen (born August 1, 1941) is an American historian, neoconservative foreign policy analyst, and author with a PhD in philosophy. He is a former consultant to the United States National Security Council, the United States Department of State, and the United States Department of Defense. He held the Freedom Scholar chair at the American Enterprise Institute where he was a scholar for twenty years and now holds the similarly named chair at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
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Georges Sada General Georges Hormiz Sada (aka Gewargis or George Hormis; Arabic: كوركيس هرمز ساده, Syriac: ܓܘܪܓܝܣ ܗܪܡܙ ܣܕܐ; born 1941) is an Iraqi of ethnic Assyrian descent, an author, former Iraqi National Security Advisor and retired general officer of the Iraqi Air Force. He currently lives in Oklahoma.
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Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism
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Project 2049 Institute The Project 2049 Institute is an American think tank focused on security issues and public policy in Central-Asia and the Asia-Pacific region.
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Najmiddin Jalolov Najmiddin Jalolov (Russian: Наджмуддин Камолитдинович Джалолов "Nadzhmuddin Kamolitdinovich Dzhalolov" , a.k.a. "Abu Yahya Muhammad Fatih"; April 1, 1972 – September 14, 2009) was the leader of the Jama'at al-Jihad al-Islami (Islamic Jihad Union), a militant organization affiliated with Al Qaeda that operates in Central Asia, Russia and Western Europe.
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Ismail Qasim Naji General Ismail Qasim Naji (Somali: "Ismaaciil Qaasim Naaji" , Arabic: إسماعيل قاسم ناجي‎ ‎ ) was the chief of staff of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia and currently the Somali ambassador in Oman. He has served as a senior officer of the Somali army since the administration of Siad Barre, who was removed from power in 1991. Before the formation of the TFG, he also commanded the army of the predecessor Transitional National Government (TNG) of Somalia between 2002–2004.
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Jonathan Howe Jonathan Trumbull Howe (born August 24, 1935) is a retired four-star United States Navy Admiral, and was the Special Representative for Somalia to United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali from March 9, 1993, succeeding Ismat Kittani from Iraq, until his resignation in February 1994. Howe was also the former Deputy National Security Advisor in the first Bush Administration. He currently is Executive Director of The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations. Howe is a 1957 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, and earned M.A., M.A.L.D. (Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy), and Ph.D. degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University from 1968-1969. He retired from the United States Navy in 1992.