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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), Ninth edition of the N&O column / Spooks newsletter, December 19, 1998

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