Mukhabarat el-Jamahiriya
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| Dissolved | 2011 |
| Jurisdiction | Government of Libya |
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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, and the agency ceased to exist when the Jamahiriya was toppled in October 2011.
The agency is believed to have been involved in the 1986 West Berlin discotheque bombing, alongside the Libyan embassy.[2]
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
- ^ 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.
- ^ Erlanger, Steven (14 November 2001). "4 Guilty in Fatal 1986 Berlin Disco Bombing Linked to Libya". New York Times. Archived from the original on 15 September 2017. Retrieved 19 August 2013.
External links
- Libyan Intelligence from GlobalSecurity.org