Mukhabarat_el-Jamahiriya

Mukhabarat el-Jamahiriya

Mukhabarat el-Jamahiriya

Former Libyan national intelligence agency


Mukhabarat el-Jamahiriya (Arabic: مخابرات الجماهيرية) [1] (Intelligence of the Jamahiriya) was the national intelligence service of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi. During the First Libyan Civil War, agency director Abuzed Omar Dorda was captured by anti-Gaddafi forces, the agency ceased to exist when the Jamahiriya was toppled in October 2011.

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In 1988, the agency was accused of causing the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people.

Successor

The Intelligence Community under Interim Government:[citation needed]

  • External Security Service
  • Internal Security Service
  • General Directorate of Military Intelligence

References

  1. Simons, Geoffrey (2003). Libya and the West: from independence to Lockerbie. United Kingdom: I. B. Tauris. p. 106. ISBN 1-86064-988-2. Retrieved 10 September 2009.



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