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	Justice, Freedom and Security - Introducing
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		The Justice, Freedom and Security DG is the newest and smallest Commission department, with approximately 320 officials out of a total of 17 000 Commission officials.
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	Ibrahim Al-Marashi, Iraqi Intelligence Operations and Objectives in Turkey
		Directorate 24, the Northern District, is responsible for monitoring Turkish military operations against the PKK in northern Iraq.
		According to Lebanese security forces, three agents of al-Mukhabarat were responsible for the assassination of Iraqi exile, Shaykh Talib al-Suhayl in 1994.(41) Such assassination operations are conducted by Directorate Nine and Directorate 14 of al-Mukhabarat.(42) Similar operations are focused in Amman, Jordan, which became a hub of Iraqi exiles and anti-Saddam opposition groups after 1991.
		The security apparatus that emerged as a small unit under the guidance of Saddam Hussein during the 1960s has emerged as a vast and complex network that has kept him in power by swiftly dealing with threats to his regime, both real or imagined.
	www.alternativesjournal.net /volume2/number1/marashi.htm (3450 words)

	"Syria's Intelligence Services: A Primer" (July 2000)
		The internal security division is responsible for internal surveillance of the population in general--a duty which clearly overlaps with that of the PSI.
		The director of the GSD is Maj. Gen Ali Houri, a member of the Ismaili sect of Shi'ite Islam.
		The current head of internal security for the GSD is Bahjat Suleiman, a key political advisor to Bashar Assad who was appointed to this position last year.
	www.meib.org /articles/0007_s3.htm (1216 words)

	Welcome World
		Iraq’s security apparatus, commonly referred to as the Mukhabarat, is one of the main instruments of state control for Saddam’s regime and has been instrumental in its survival despite two costly wars plus numerous internal insurrections, coup attempts and crippling international sanctions.
		General Security is essentially a political security police force whose activities are: 1) detecting dissent among the Iraqi general public; 2) reacting to political "criminal behavior"; and 3) preventing economic criminal activity.
		Directorate 21, the residency located in Baghdad, is in charge of security issues in the capital as well as issuing residence permits to foreigners in Iraq.
	www.webworkit.com /world/security.htm (4999 words)

	The Coalition Provisional Authority's Experience with Public Security in Iraq by Robert Perito: Special Reports: U.S. ...
		Special Security Directorate (SSD; al-Amn al-Khas): Under the leadership of Saddam's youngest son, Qusai, the directorate's 5,000 members belonged to the president's Tikriti clan and were handpicked for their loyalty.
		General Security Directorate (GSD; al-Amn al-‘Amm): The oldest and largest of the security services, the GSD was concerned with internal security and responsible for detecting public dissent and monitoring Iraqi citizens, particularly prominent personalities.
		Security officers, intelligence personnel, and Baath Party operatives went into hiding, while police officers and members of the regular army took their weapons and went home.
	www.usip.org /pubs/specialreports/sr137.html (7241 words)

	General Security Directorate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was announced by interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi at a press conference in July 2004, in a climate of widespread violence by terrorist groups and the Iraqi insurgency.
		Although details on its organisation were not made clear at the time, the General Security Directorate's designated mission was to "infiltrate and annihilate Iraq's tenacious insurgency".
		As the security situation within Iraq deteriorated and Iraqi resistance to the occupation became stronger and more violent, the need for a secret service became more pressing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/General_Security_Directorate (474 words)

	CNS - Saddam's Security and Intelligence Network
		Iraq's security apparatus is the most important instrument of state control in Saddam's regime and has been fundamental in the preservation of his rule.
		Al-Amn al-'Amm (General Security),[7] the oldest security agency in the country, dates back to 1921, when it was created during the British Mandate era.
		Its activities are: (1) detecting dissent among the Iraqi general public; (2) reacting to political criminal behavior; and (3) preventing economic criminal activity.
	cns.miis.edu /research/iraq/iraqint.htm (1624 words)

	Unraveling Iraq’s Secret Militias
		The Directorate of General Security was one of the main security services Saddam Hussein used to maintain an iron grip on Iraq.
		The insurgents have responded by shifting their targets to the Iraqi security forces and intensifying economic sabotage by crippling the electrical and petroleum infrastructure.
		One U.S. general recently noted that it takes on average nine years to defeat an insurgency.
	zmagsite.zmag.org /Images/gupta0505.html (2922 words)

	DGSE - General Directorate for External Security - Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure - French Intelligence ...
		General Directorate for External Security, subordinate to the Ministry of the Defense, is responsible for military intelligence as well as for strategic information, electronic intelligence, and it is also responsible for the counterespionage outside the borders of the national territory.
		In 1962, following the Ben Barka affair, General De Gaulle decided to subordinate the SDECE to the minister of the defense, and the institution adapted to the military environment.
		On 04 April 1982 the SDECE was replaced by the Directorate of the External Security (DGSE).
	www.fas.org /irp/world/france/defense/dgse (718 words)

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		BEIRUT (Agencies): Lebanon appointed a new head of a powerful security agency on Tuesday, replacing the former pro-Syrian chief who was arrested for a suspected role in the killing of former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri.
		Information Minister Ghazi Aridi said Brigadier General Wafik Jizeeni was named to replace Major General Jamil al-Sayyed who quit the General Security Directorate two months after the Hariri Feb 14 killing, which plunged Lebanon into political turmoil and insecurity.
		Sayyed and three other pro-Syrian generals were arrested in August on the orders of UN investigators on suspicion of planning the Hariri killing, which many in Lebanon blame on Syria and its Lebanese allies.
	www.alseyassah.com /arabtimes/world/view.asp?msgID=6034 (521 words)

	ISN Security Watch - Iraqi PM puts hope in secret police
		ISN SECURITY WATCH - Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi warned on Thursday that insurgent attacks would increase in the coming weeks, and announced the formation of a centralized secret service to suppress the resistance.
		The General Security Directorate will co-ordinate several Iraqi spy networks already at work and will be the first centralized agency since Saddam Hussein's infamous Mukhabarat secret police.
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	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?ID=9244 (443 words)

	How Iraq conceals and obtains its Weapons of Mass Destruction
		Da’irat Al-Mukhabarat al-‘Amma, The General Intelligence Directorate is roughly divided into two departments, responsible for internal and international operations respectively, and consequently deals with covert operations relating to WMD materials inside Iraq, as well as clandestine procurement of weapons material abroad.
		Directorate 19 is tasked with covert procurement of necessary WMD materials and components from foreign countries.(73) In this process, Directorate 19 used Iraqi diplomatic missions and established front companies.
		Directorate 4 of this agency, known as the Secret Service, is responsible for domestic operations involving the WMD program, such as interpreting signals intelligence from the Al-Hadi unit.
	meria.idc.ac.il /journal/2003/issue1/jv7n1a5.html (5063 words)

	Let a Thousand Militias Bloom
		But there is a deeper concern that purging the security forces could feed into sectarian tensions and explode in civil war.
		According to a slew of reports, the U.S. military is encouraging tribal vendettas, freeing kidnappers to spy on insurgents, incorporating ethnic-based military units into the security forces, and encouraging the development of illegal militias that draw in part from Hussein-era security forces.
		The Directorate of General Security was one of the main security services Hussein used to maintain an iron grip on Iraq.
	www.commondreams.org /views05/0422-24.htm (3373 words)

	National Security Council - Iraqi Intelligence Agencies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Situated in the Presidential Palace, it is under the command of Saddam's second son Qusay, and staffed by officers from the Special Security Organisation (SSO).
		The deployment and movement of a number of units within the city of Baghdad is controlled by the JOR according to a daily schedule drafted by the National Security Council under the chairmanship of Saddam.
		These units are connected to the JOR through a Wide Area Network of computers which were smuggled to Iraq from Jordan in the spring of 1996 in contravention of the UN sanctions on the regime.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/iraq/nsc.htm (198 words)

	EUROPA - Justice and Home Affairs - Freedom, Security and Justice - Fundamental rights
		Protecting fundamental rights and creating a European area of freedom, security and justice are two intrinsically linked tasks, which are actually two sides of the same coin.
		As the European Union's (EU) internal borders were gradually abolished, the need to create a genuine European area of freedom, security and justice became apparent.
		The Union is founded on the principle of liberty, democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms and the rule of law, principles which are common to the Member States.
	europa.eu.int /comm/justice_home/fsj/rights/fsj_rights_intro_en.htm (1184 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The regime’s General Security Directorate sent an official memorandum to the Lawyers Union demanding to be supplied with a list of lawyers with doubtful loyalty to the regime.
		Security forces inspected offices and headquarters of the Lawyers Union and its branches in the various Iraqi governorates.
		Reports affirmed that security forces uncovered a large amount of leaflets and literature inside courts and branches of the Lawyers Union.
	www.kurdmedia.com /printarticles.asp?id=1600 (354 words)

	[ War in Iraq ]
		Ali Hassan al-Majid, who was first thought killed on 5 April by a coalition bomb at his home in Al-Basrah, was said by the Pentagon on 21 August to be in U.S. custody.
		During his posting in northern Iraq, al-Majid was given extraordinary powers over all other state, party, military, and security agencies, including the Iraqi Army and Air Force, the Republican Guard, the General Military Intelligence Directorate, the General Security Directorate, and the National Defense Battalions, among others.
		What began as arbitrary arrests and detentions against Kurds in the north, led to the forced resettlement and destruction of approximately 2,000 Kurdish and 150 Assyrian villages in 1987-88.
	www.rferl.org /specials/iraqcrisis/chem_ali.asp (520 words)

	~:: General Directorate of General Security ::~ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		His passport will be traced by the departure stamp and after paying all the fees needed due to regulations.
		Therefore, he should present himself to the Arab and Foreigners department in the General Directorate of the General Security or one of the regional offices.
		Lebanon, is subjected to a premature approval from the general directorate of the General Security.
	www.surete-generale.gov.lb /english/evisa4.htm (659 words)

	"Dossier: Jamil al-Sayyid" (March 2000)
		amil al-Sayyid, the director-general of Lebanon's Sureté Générale (General Security Directorate), is widely considered to be the most powerful (Lebanese) political figure in Lebanon.
		He was stationed in Beirut until March 1976 when he joined the First Brigade in the Bekaa valley, headed by Brigadier General Ibrahim Shaheen, who at that time established the "Vanguards Of The Arab Lebanese Army" under Syrian supervision.
		In 1989-1990, Sayyid was in charge of security for the Syrian-appointed Lebanese president, Elias Hrawi, in the Bekaa valley and later at his temporary residence in West Beirut.
	www.meib.org /articles/0003_ld.htm (836 words)

	Let A Thousand Militias Bloom
		He is also the uncle of Iraq’s interim minister of the interior, under which the commandos operate.
		The insurgents have responded by shifting their targets, concentrating attacks more on Iraqi security forces and they have intensified economic sabotage, crippling the electrical and petroleum infrastructure.
		Even if the rebellion is contained to “manageable” levels for the Pentagon, meaning a low rate of combat deaths, that does not mean the resistance will end.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article8628.htm (1095 words)

	Ya Libnan \| Finally Lebanon arrests pro Syrian security officials \| Live News from Lebanon
		The source said Jamil al-Sayyed, former chief of the General Security Directorate, Ali Hajj, ex-head of police, and Raymond Azar, ex-head of military intelligence, were arrested in raids at their homes at dawn by police.
		They added the chief of the Republican Guard Mustafa Hamdan, the only remaining pro-Syrian security official still in his post after parliamentary elections produced an anti-Syrian majority, was said to be wanted for questioning.
		Jamil al-Sayyed, the Director-General of Lebanon's Sureté Générale (General Security Directorate), is widely considered to be the most powerful (Lebanese) political figure in Lebanon.
	yalibnan.com /site/archives/2005/08/finally_lebanon.php (665 words)

	Saddam's Half-Brother Captured, Accused Of Helping Fund And Coordinate The Insurgency - CBS News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		(AP) Iraqi security forces captured Saddam Hussein's half brother and former adviser, government officials said Sunday, dealing a blow to an insurgency that some Iraqi officials claim the most-wanted fugitive was helping organize and fund.
		Under Saddam, al-Hassan led the dreaded General Security Directorate, which was responsible for internal security, especially cracking down on political parties opposing Saddam.
		Qassem Dawoud, Iraq's minister in charge of national security, claimed that al-Hassan was supporting insurgents in Iraq from Syria, according to remarks published last year in Kuwait's Al-Rai Al-Aam daily.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/02/27/iraq/main676724.shtml (1154 words)

	The Syrian Connection
		The United States received, and continues to receive, "critical information on the genesis of the plot to attack New York and Washington" from the debriefing by Syrian intelligence of a suspected al Qaeda organizer, according to a report in the Washington Post (June 18, 2002).
		The subject of these debriefings is Mohammed Haydar Zammar, a German citizen, who had been seized in Morocco, secretly flown to Syria and questioned by interrogators of Syria's General Security Directorate (GSD).
		It is prudent to assume that the reports passed on from Syria's General Security Directorate (GSD) about September 11th are disinformation.
	www.edwardjayepstein.com /2002question/syrian.htm (528 words)

	FOXNews.com - Iraqi Intelligence Organizations - U.S. & World
		• The General Security Service (GSS), which is the Secret Police or the General Security Directorate, monitors the daily lives of Iraqi citizens for signs of dissent.
		Apart from an internal security role and the mission of suppressing insurrection, the GSS also deals with crimes such as smuggling and banditry.
		The Special Location Group is responsible for Saddam's security in the various premises used by him and his family.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,74730,00.html (1194 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		To induce the clergy from the Assyrian community and use them in ways that weaken the activities of this group [Assyrian Democratic Assembly] and to undermine the directives of this group.
		Also, assign some of them [clergy] to [illegible words] and obtain more information on the deserters from the relatives of the families, which have deserters and to coordinate with the Intelligence Service apparatus and the Office of General Military Intelligence.
		[You are further charged] to establish relationship with it for the purpose of engaging it [Or its members] secretly in the service of national security.
	www.zindamagazine.com /iraqi_documents/documents/Z-10005.html (459 words)

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