Adding to the alarm, a report by Dr Foster Intelligence, a public-private outfit that analyses health-care data, suggested that Basildon was not alone in being unsafe.

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"These leaks have been occurring more and more, " he said, adding that they were the worst he had seen in nearly 10 years on the intelligence panel.

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"They're adding a great bit of ability to the troops over there and a great bit of intelligence, " he said in the video, but added that finding Kony is difficult due to the terrain and poor infrastructure of the area in which he is believed to be located.

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Some agencies in the U.S. intelligence community, perhaps not realizing that MICE is already a plural word, insist on adding an S to the end for sex.

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"There are folks who are currently in the LRA who we are trying to ... encourage to leave the LRA and this might provide some additional incentive both for current or former LRA fighters to leave" and "provide critical recent intelligence about their movements, their practices and Kony's recent whereabouts, " Coons said, adding that providing this kind of information often means risking their lives.

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