The Iraqi Intelligence Service (Jihaz Al-Mukhabarat Al-Ama, also known as Mukhabarat, General Directorate of Intelligence, or Party Intelligence was the main state intelligence organization in Iraq under Saddam Hussein. ...
Mukhabarat is responsible for watching the other police networks and controlling the activities of state institutions and the armed forces.
Mukhabarat activities include: intelligence gathering and processing, weapons testing and development, assassinations and sabotage, propaganda and psychological warfare, interrogation of suspects, detecting and countering foreign agents, and training of agents for clandestine operations abroad.
Mukhabarat was responsible for an attempted assassination of President George Bush and the Emir of Kuwait, and the assassination of Talib Al Suheil.
At the top of the pyramid, the Mukhabarat was responsible for watching the other police networks and controlling the activities of state institutions, the army, government departments and "non-governmental" organisations (youth, women, labour, etc.).
Mukhabarat agents operated in State structures, in the various organisations and associations, in the diplomatic corps and abroad.
With the Mukhabarat, in 1983, Barzan Al Tikriti organised the massacres of the villagers of Al Dujail and Jezan Al Chol, the disappearance of the Barzanis from the Qushtapa camp and the assassination of 90 members of Ayatollah Al Hakim's family.
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