Mukhabarat

Mukhabarat is the Arabic term for intelligence, as in intelligence agency. Organisations using the name include:

• Iraq: Da'irat al-Mukhabarat al-Amah[?] or Jihaz al-Mukhabarat al-Amma[?], the Iraqi Intelligence Service[?] (IIS) or General Intelligence Directorate[?] (GID), formerly Jihaz al-Khas[?], commonly known as Mukhabarat.

External links and references

• Agency profile: Iraqi intelligence (http://www.cvni.net/radio/nsnl/nsnl9iraq.html), Ninth edition of the N&O column / Spooks newsletter, December 19, 1998