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	Iraqi Intelligence Service - IIS [Mukhabarat] - Iraqi Intelligence Agencies
		It was also believed that several separate intelligence networks were incorporated within the department, and that Iraqi intelligence agents operated both at home and abroad in their mission to seek out and eliminate opponents of the Baghdad regime.
		The Chief of the Iraqi intelligence service Rafa Daham El-Tikriti met with the PUK leader Celal Talabani.
		The Chief of the Iraqi Intelligence service Rafa Daham El-Tikriti met with members of the PUK politburo and Celal Talabani in the city of Suleymaniye.
	www.globalsecurity.org /intell/world/iraq/mukhabarat.htm (1129 words)

	Iraqi Intelligence Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Iraqi Intelligence Service (Jihaz Al-Mukhabarat Al-A'ma), also known as the Mukhabarat, General Directorate of Intelligence, or Party Intelligence, was the main state intelligence organization in Iraq under Saddam Hussein.
		The Secret Service was tasked with infiltrating both foreign and domestic goverments, unions, embassies, and opposition groups.
		The IIS often times worked closely with the Iraqi General Security Directorate (the Iraqi equivilent of the FBI) when conducting domestic activities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iraqi_Intelligence_Service (196 words)

	Media Lies: Who to believe?
		The Iraqi intelligence service director, General Mohamed Abdullah Shahwani, claims that the "insurgency" is 200,000 strong.
		Though intelligence service officials declined to be interviewed, Iraqi security sources who spoke on condition of anonymity said about two-thirds of the new intelligence service is made up of former members of the Muhkabarat and other intelligence groups that worked under the old regime.
		The Iraqi citizens are caught in a maelstrom between the terrorists who will kill them if they cooperate with the government and an intelligence service that harks back to the bloody days of Sadaam.
	antimedia.blogspot.com /2005/01/who-to-believe.html (495 words)

	Amidst Doubts, CIA Hangs on to Control of Iraqi Intelligence Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Iraqi leaders complain that the arrangement violates their sovereignty, freezes them out of the war on insurgents and could lead to the formation of a rival, Iraqi-led spy agency.
		The Iraqi intelligence service "is not working for the Iraqi government - it's working for the CIA," said Hadi al Ameri, an Iraqi lawmaker and commander of the Badr Brigade, formerly the armed wing of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq.
		The Iraqi official said the CIA recruited agents from SCIRI, Dawa, the two main Kurdish factions, and two secular Arab parties: the Iraqi National Congress led by Ahmad Chalabi and the Iraqi National Accord led by Ayad Allawi, who later became the interim prime minister.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/iraq/occupation/2005/0508cia.htm (1415 words)

	The Hindu : New masters, old spies?
		RELYING ON the help of an Iraqi political party, the United States has moved to resurrect parts of the former Iraqi intelligence service, with the branch that monitors Iran among the top priorities, former Iraqi agents and politicians say.
		The Iraqi National Congress, which is led by Ahmad Chalabi, the long-time exile who is now a member of the Iraqi Governing Council, says its senior officials have met with senior members of the `Iran' and `Turkey' branch of the Mukhabarat, or Iraqi intelligence, over the last several weeks.
		Iraqi intelligence officers who have been asked to rejoin the branch contend that the U.S. is orchestrating the effort.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2003/07/23/stories/2003072301461000.htm (900 words)

	Iraq Spy Service Planned by U.S. To Stem Attacks (washingtonpost.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Intelligence experts said Chalabi and his sponsors also fear some former government officials would use the new apparatus to undermine the influence of Chalabi, who wants to play a central role in a new Iraq.
		The service will focus largely on domestic intelligence and is seen by some administration officials as a critical step in the administration's effort to hand over the running of the country to Iraqis.
		"Intelligence services are the heart and soul of a new country," said one former CIA operative who helped several post-communist countries establish new services.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A54518-2003Dec10¬Found=true (1138 words)

	INTELLIGENCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Iraqi National Congress, which is led by Ahmad Chalabi, the longtime exile who is now a member of the Iraqi Governing Council, says its senior officials have met with senior members of the so-called Iran and Turkey branch of the Mukhabarat, or Iraqi intelligence, over the last several weeks.
		Iraqi intelligence officers who have been asked to rejoin the branch contend that the United States is orchestrating the effort.
		But the former Iraqi agents who had discussions with the Iraqi National Congress and with members of the Iran branch say the unit is already working in a building in central Baghdad.
	www.iran-interlink.org /files/News/newyorktimes210703.htm (1047 words)

	Iraqi assassination unit outlined in file - baltimoresun.com
		Found on the floor of a looted Intelligence Service villa on the east bank of the Tigris River here, the six-page file described the program and contained suggestions for improving its effectiveness — including obtaining poisonous gas disguised as perfume or explosives that would detonate when the car of the target passed by.
		The head of the Intelligence Service at the time was Tahir Abdal Jalil Habbush Tikriti, who remained in his post until the fall of the Hussein government this month.
		Former Iraqi officer Mohammed Ali Ghani told London's Sunday Telegraph newspaper that Iraqi intelligence agents had tried to force him in July 1999 to try to assassinate the leader of the Iraqi National Accord, one of the main anti-Hussein groups.
	www.baltimoresun.com /news/nationworld/iraq/bal-assassins0425,0,532646.story?coll=bal-home-headlines (950 words)

	Amidst Doubts, CIA Hangs on to Control of Iraqi Intelligence Service
		Both ministries' intelligence departments are led by Kurds, the most consistently U.S.-friendly group in Iraq, and report to the Iraqi prime minister.
		Its Iraqi director is Mohammed Abdullah Shahwani, a Sunni general whose three sons were executed by Saddam in retaliation for his involvement in a botched, CIA-backed coup attempt in the mid-1990s.
		The Iraqi intelligence official said agents have complained the ex-Baathists use the word "resistance" instead of "terrorists" when describing Sunni insurgents in internal memos, raising serious doubts about the agents' loyalties.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines05/0509-02.htm (1490 words)

	JS Online: Iraq had assassination squad
		Found on the floor of a looted Intelligence Service villa on the east bank of the Tigris River, the six-page file described the program and contained suggestions for improving its effectiveness, including obtaining poisonous gas disguised as perfume or explosives that would detonate when the car of the target passed by.
		Former Iraqi officer Mohammed Ali Ghani told London's Sunday Telegraph that Iraqi intelligence agents had forced him in July 1999 to try to assassinate the leader of the Iraqi National Accord, one of the main anti-Hussein groups.
		The documents said that the missions of the Al Ghafiqi project were fulfilled by individuals from within the Intelligence Service and by those outside it, including the paramilitary Fedayeen and the Directorate of Military Intelligence, most recently headed by Gen. Zuhayr Talib Abd al-Sattar al-Naqib.
	www.jsonline.com /news/gen/apr03/136067.asp?format=print (998 words)

	Republican insider spied for Saddam : AZ IMC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In an indictment unsealed in federal court in Manhattan, Lindauer was charged with acting and conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of the Iraqi Intelligence Service.
		She is accused of traveling to Baghdad as a guest of the Iraqi Intelligence Service.
		After her return, the indictment charges that in June, 2003, Lindauer met with an FBI agent posing as a member of the Libyan intelligence service seeking to support resistance groups in post-war Iraq and discussed the need for plans and foreign support of such groups.
	arizona.indymedia.org /print.php?id=16401 (642 words)

	Ex-Senate aide charged with giving Iraq secrets - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com
		She was charged with conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of the Iraqi Intelligence Service and with engaging in prohibited financial transactions with the Iraqi government.
		The Iraqi Intelligence Service is the foreign intelligence arm of the government of Iraq and allegedly had a role in terrorist operations.
		There, she met with several members of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, the foreign intelligence arm of the government of Iraq that allegedly played a role in terrorist operations, including an attempted assassination of former President George H.W. Bush, the indictment alleged.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4506229 (1311 words)

	Iraqi Charged With Lying on Petition For U.S. Citizenship (washingtonpost.com)
		An Iraqi-born man was arrested yesterday for allegedly lying on his application to become a naturalized U.S. citizen and failing to disclose that he was a member of the former Iraqi intelligence service.
		He also did not disclose that he had been a member of the Iraqi intelligence service, the Mukhabarat, for five years before July 22, 1999, and he told immigration authorities that three overseas trips he made between 1994 and 1997 were vacations.
		He was "an Iraqi intelligence spy sent to this country to be a sleeper agent," with instructions to "assimilate himself into our culture," Assistant U.S. Attorney James M. Conway said after the hearing, the Associated Press reported.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A47263-2004Aug30.html (409 words)

	Iraqi Intelligence Service Chief Interviewed on Terrorism, Related Issues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Major General Muhammad Abdallah al-Shahwani, director of the Iraqi National Intelligence Service, has estimated the number of gunmen in all parts of Iraq who are carrying out the attacks and bombings at between 20,000 and 30,000.
		In a telephone interview with "Al-Sharq al-Awsat" conducted with him in his office in Baghdad yesterday, he said former Iraqi Vice President Izzat al-Duri, former Regional Command member Muhammad Yunis, and Saddam's half brother Sab'awi Ibrahim al-Hasan are supervising the implementation of qualitative operations because of their huge financial influence.
		Part of the Iraqis will not be able to reach the voting centers and this will have a major negative effect on the elections.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/iraq/resist/2005/0105intellint.htm (1475 words)

	ParaPundit: Iraqi Intelligence Files And Officials Round-Up
		He has an excellent story about the extent to which the Iraqi intelligence officers were burning intelligence files as US forces advanced across Iraq.
		At the General Directorate of Intelligence, Iraq's equivalent of the FBI and CIA combined, one file room with 2-foot-thick concrete walls was still smoldering this week, and 3 feet of shredded papers blanketed another room.
		The capture of Farouk Hijazi, who is accused of involvement in the unsuccessful plot by Iraqi intelligence to kill the first President Bush in 1993, came a day after the surrender of Tariq Aziz, the Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister.
	www.parapundit.com /archives/001182.html (948 words)

	Iraqi prime minister plans intelligence service - The Washington Times: World - June 11, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		BAGHDAD — Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said yesterday that he plans to resurrect domestic-intelligence services to combat the country's persistent lawlessness and violence.
		His comments came amid continuing violence, with Shi'ite gunmen ransacking an Iraqi police station in Najaf and a clash between American soldiers and Shi'ite militants in Baghdad, in which at least one Iraqi was killed.
		He also said he would reintegrate 40 percent to 55 percent of the old Iraqi army — which was dissolved in a proclamation by L. Paul Bremer, chief administrator of the U.S.-led coalition, in May 2003 — into a new armed forces.
	www.washtimes.com /world/20040611-122136-6291r.htm (700 words)

	The New Yorker: From the Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Nonetheless, on June 24th the F.B.I.'s intelligence report was accepted at face value by the President and his senior aides, and some of those aides told me that the mere existence of the report and the expectation that it would be leaked to the press were what drove the President to act.
		Most Iraqi car bombs that have been recovered by the American intelligence community are extremely primitive devices—essentially, the analyst said, "sticks of dynamite wrapped together, with a timer and a detonator." The bomb found in Kuwait, he added, used a state-of-the-art plastic explosive that, while safer than dynamite to handle, was far more powerful.
		Being a smuggler, al-Assadi, not unexpectedly, knew many Iraqi police and intelligence officials, and he testified that he was paid about four hundred and twenty dollars in advance and given merchandise—five cases of whiskey and six kilos of what he was told was hashish—in return for participation in the al-Ghazali mission.
	www.newyorker.com /archive/content?020930fr_archive02 (7877 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| terrorism \| iraq Alleged top Iraqi operative seen in Syria
		A suspected high-ranking operative of the Iraqi intelligence service, who is believed to have played a key role in a 1993 plot to assassinate former US president George Bush, has been spotted in Syria after arriving there from Tunisia, US officials said.
		Following the capture of several key people involved in the plot by Kuwaiti authorities and an analysis of the bombs, the US Central Intelligence Agency and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation concluded that the explosives were Iraqi-made and that Saddam's intelligence service was behind the conspiracy.
		According to a US official, Hijazi was the third-ranking member of the Iraqi intelligence service at the time of the plot.
	iafrica.com /news/us_terror/iraq/229544.htm (700 words)

	Mukhabarat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mukhabarat (مخابرات) is the Arabic term for intelligence, as in intelligence agency.
		Jihaz al-Mukhabarat al-Amma (Iraqi Intelligence Service or General Intelligence Directorate, formerly Jihaz al-Khas)
		Agency profile: Iraqi intelligence, Ninth edition of the NandO column / Spooks newsletter, December 19, 1998
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mukhabarat (77 words)

	Iraqi 'secret plan' orders mayhem - The Washington Times: World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		KUWAIT CITY — A document from the Iraqi intelligence service in Basra — which was captured in April as coalition forces gained control — orders agents to start campaigns of sabotage, looting and murder should Iraq lose the war.
		It is typed under the symbols of the government — an eagle — and of its intelligence service — an eye.
		In an ambush Saturday night in the city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, an Iraqi civilian was killed by U.S. troops during an ambush along with a gunman who attacked a U.S. patrol with automatic weapons and a rocket-propelled grenade, the coalition's Central Command said yesterday.
	www.washtimes.com /world/20030608-111144-1219r.htm (855 words)

	Exclusive: Saddam Possessed WMD, Had Extensive Terror Ties -- 10/04/2004
		They detail the Iraqi regime's purchase of five kilograms of mustard gas on Aug. 21, 2000 and three vials of malignant pustule, another term for anthrax, on Sept. 6, 2000.
		Many are described as having "finished the course at M14," a reference to an Iraqi intelligence agency, and to having "participated in Umm El-Ma'arek," the Iraqi response to the U.S. invasion in 1991.
		The senior government official and source of the Iraqi intelligence memos, explained that the reason the documents have not been made public before now is that the government has "thousands and thousands of documents waiting to be translated.
	www.cnsnews.com /ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=\SpecialReports\archive\200410\SPE20041004a.html (2035 words)

	DefenseLINK News: Justice Department Helps Coalition Intel Effort
		The second was to eliminate the Iraqi Intelligence Service's presence in the United States, and the third was to disrupt potential attacks by other terrorists.
		FBI Director Robert Mueller said the response of the Iraqi- American community was "overwhelmingly positive." He said FBI agents developed around 250 reports that the agency delivered to the Defense Department.
		The second prong of the Justice strategy was to expel or arrest all known Iraqi intelligence officials within the United States.
	www.defenselink.mil /news/Apr2003/n04182003_200304184.html (621 words)

	Iraqi National Intelligence Service
		The Iraqi National Intelligence Service, according to the "Law of Administration for the State of Iraq for the Transitional Period", Chapter 3, Article 27D, dated 08 March 2004, "shall collect information, assess threats to national security, and advise the Iraqi government.
		Iraqi Interior Minister Nouri Badran, a secular Shiite Muslim, was initially selected to head the new agency.
		The intelligence agencies of the previous regime were routinely used to quash dissent, arrest those who disagreed with Saddam Hussein and terrorize the Iraqi people.
	www.globalsecurity.org /intell/world/iraq/inis.htm (637 words)

	Team B Topic #1
		Yet until 9-11, the US government took very seriously the role of hostile states using intelligence services to covertly sponsor bombings and other activities that could be attributed to free-lance terrorists.
		They could use their foreign intelligence officers to recruit operatives abroad under false flags or use their internal security services to threaten and compromise relatives of operatives to control their action.
		Under the theory of state sponsored terrorism, the intelligence service of a hostile state would be considered as the supplier of such resources and planning.
	www.edwardjayepstein.com /teamb/1.htm (1045 words)

	NSNL 9 - Iraqi intelligence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mukhabarat is the most important intelligence agency of Iraq and consists of 3 bureau's and sub-divided in 28 directorates, each with its own specific tasks.
		Northern District; responsible for Mukhabarat operations in northern Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan, and infiltrating the opposition in Iraqi Kurdistan.
		The intelligence collected by Project 858 is passed on to the other agencies for their utilization.
	www.cvni.net /radio/nsnl/nsnl9iraq.html (766 words)

	Feds Nab "Sleeper" Spy for Iraqi Intelligence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Federal authorities arrested a Des Plaines man Monday, saying he entered the country as a "sleeper" spy for the Iraqi intelligence service and charging him with lying on his U.S. citizenship application to conceal his role.
		The indictment said that in addition to failing to disclose his ties to Iraqi intelligence, Latchin, a Baath party member, lied about overseas trips he made in 1994, 1996 and 1997.
		Latchin, who was born in Dohuk, Iraq, and has lived in the United States for nearly 11 years, told authorities he was traveling on vacation when, in fact, he met with his Iraqi intelligence handler and received payment for his services, the indictment alleges.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=14939 (708 words)

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