Mukhabarat el-Jamahiriya

Mukhabarat el-Jamahiriya (Arabic: مخابرات الجماهيرية‎) ^[1] (Intelligence of the Jamahiriya) is the national intelligence service of Libya. During the 2011 Libyan civil war, agency director Abuzed Omar Dorda was captured by anti-Gaddafi forces, and many of the agency's functions were disrupted or usurped as a result of the conflict.

Operations

Mukhabarat el-Jamahiriya allegedly keeps 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 has 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]}

References

1. ^ Simons, Geoffrey (2003). Libya and the West: from independence to Lockerbie. United Kingdom: I. B. Tauris. p. 106. ISBN 1860649882. http://books.google.com/books?id=5yPCY9ZHBBgC&pg=PA106&lpg=PA106&dq=Mukhabarat+libya&source=bl&ots=QXkFDZyHY8&sig=A8nknrfuZdTh6tqNxy2RGeYRi_s&hl=en&ei=P6SpSuXMDInosQP4k63yBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3#v=onepage&q=Mukhabarat%20libya&f=false. Retrieved 10 September, 2009. 

External links

• Libyan Intelligence from GlobalSecurity.org