Iraqi Intelligence Service

The Iraqi Intelligence Service (Arabic: جهاز المخابرات العامة العراقية, romanized: Jihaz Al-Mukhabarat Al-Eiraqii, lit. 'General Intelligence Directorate of Iraq') also known as the Mukhabarat, General Intelligence Directorate, or Party Intelligence, was an 8,000-man agency that served as the main state civilian intelligence and security agency in Iraq under Saddam Hussein. The Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) was primarily concerned with advancing national security through collecting and analyzing intelligence from around the world and conducting analysis and development intelligence gathering and counterintelligence systems to create national security, clandestine and covert operations, counterinsurgency, counterintelligence, counter-revolutionary, creation a civilian security network intelligence, executive protection (especially senior IIS officials and visiting dignitaries), psychological warfare operations, political warfare against target countries, support irregular warfare operations, surveillance and suppression those who disagree with the government, and threat assessment to national security. But also performed many activities inside Iraq in conjunction with the Directorate of General Security (DGS) as a secret police organization. The most important section of the IIS was Directorate 4: the Secret Service. One of the well known Directors was Rafi Daham al-Tikriti (Arabic: رافع دحام مجول التكريتي) the former Iraqi Ambassador to Turkey and the last Chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service. The Secret Service was tasked with infiltrating both foreign and domestic governments, unions, embassies, and opposition groups. IIS often worked closely with the Iraqi Directorate of General Security (the Iraqi equivalent of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)) when conducting domestic activities. IIS is alleged to be responsible for a number of assassinations and attempted assassinations abroad. These include the assassinations of former Iraqi prime minister Abdul Razzaq an-Naif in London (July 1978), Salih Mahdi Ammash in Helsinki (January 1985), Sheikh Talib al-Suhail al-Tamimi in Beirut (April 1994), Ayatollah Mehdi al-Hakim in Sudan (January 1988) and Dr. Ayad Habashi in Rome...