Iraqi Intelligence Service

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The Iraqi Intelligence Service was the main intelligence and secret police agency of Saddam Hussein’s regime, responsible for internal repression, surveillance, and foreign espionage in Iraq.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf intelligence agency
secret police organization
accusedOf extrajudicial killings
forced disappearances
human rights abuses
politically motivated arrests
alsoKnownAs Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS)
Jihaz al-Mukhabarat al-‘Amma
Mukhabarat
country Iraq
dissolvedBy Coalition Provisional Authority
dissolvedFollowing 2003 invasion of Iraq
headquartersLocation Baghdad
ideology Ba'athism
languageOfName Arabic
loyalTo Ba'ath Party (Iraq)
Saddam Hussein
notableActivity coordination with other Iraqi security services
foreign espionage in neighboring countries
monitoring political opposition
operations against Iraqi exiles
suppression of dissent
surveillance of ethnic and religious minorities
operatedUnderRegimeOf Saddam Hussein
operationalPeriod Saddam Hussein era
opposed Iraqi opposition movements
Kurdish political groups
Shi'a Islamist movements
partOf Iraqi security apparatus
primaryFunction counterintelligence
domestic intelligence
espionage abroad
foreign intelligence
political repression
surveillance of Iraqi population
regionOfOperation Middle East
replacedBy Iraqi National Intelligence Service
status defunct
subjectOf human rights reports
supervisedBy Office of the President of Iraq
timePeriod early 21st century
late 20th century
usedMethods assassination operations abroad
detention
infiltration of opposition groups
interrogation
surveillance
torture

Referenced by (3)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Iraqi Intelligence Service ("Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS)")
alsoKnownAs
Al-Anfal campaign ("Iraqi intelligence services")
securityForcesInvolved
Saddam Hussein
securityOrganizationControlled

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