Mukhabarat el-Jamahiriya

Mukhabarat el-Jamahiriya (Arabic: مخابرات الجماهيرية‎) ^[1] (Intelligence of the Jamahiriya) was the national intelligence service of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi. During the 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 August 2011.

Operations

Mukhabarat el-Jamahiriya allegedly kept Libyan society under surveillance, preventing even open demonstrations^{[citation needed]}. It also carried out murder and espionage against Libyan dissidents living abroad^{[citation needed]} and also infiltrated attempted military coups against the Gaddafi government^{[citation needed]}.

It is publicly known^{[citation needed]} to have carried out these three operations against the West:

• 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing - On 5 April 1986, Libyan agents detonated a bomb a discotheque popular with U.S. soldiers in West Berlin, killing three soldiers, a Turkish woman, and wounding 50 soldiers and 180 civilians.

• Pan Am Flight 103 - On 21 December 1988, Libyan agents detonated a bomb aboard a Pan American Airlines jet over Lockerbie, Scotland. A total of 270 people were killed, eleven of them on the ground. This was in retaliation to British support of the United States during air strikes on Libya.^{[citation needed]}

• UTA Flight 772 - On 19 September 1989, Libyan agents detonated a bomb aboard a French airliner shortly after taking off from N'Djamena International Airport, killing all 170 people aboard. The attack was in retaliation for French support of Chad during the Chadian–Libyan conflict.^{[citation needed]}

Successor

The Intelligence Community under Interim Government^{[citation needed]}:

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

References

External links

• Libyan Intelligence from GlobalSecurity.org