- Asayesh
Asayesh or Asayish (Kurdish for "security" [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE7DC1131F930A35752C0A965958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=8 Iraq Accused: A Case of Genocide - New York Times ] ] ) is a Kurdish organization and the primary intelligence agency operating in the Kurdistan region in Iraq. The organization was established in September of 1993 [ [http://www.hrw.org/reports/1993/WR93/Mew-04.htm Mew ] ] and has been often referred to as "intelligence agency" [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/14/AR2005061401828.html] , "security force", [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE7DC1131F930A35752C0A965958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=8 Iraq Accused: A Case of Genocide - New York Times ] ] "security service", [ [http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article1154093.ece Gary Trotter: My Life In Media - Media, News - The Independent ] ] "security police", [ [http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/oct2006/kurd-o14.shtml Mounting social crisis in Kurdish Iraq ] ] "secret service", [ [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/20/AR2005082000940_pf.html Militias Wresting Control Across Iraq's North and South ] ] "secret police", [ [http://agonist.org/nick/20060303/a_detour_with_kurdish_secret_police A detour with Kurdish secret police | The Agonist ] ] or just "Kurdish police", [ [http://web.krg.org/articles/detail.asp?rnr=73&lngnr=12&anr=12997&s
] ] . Asayesh coordinates and shares information withParastin andZaniyar , the investigative arms and intelligence gatherers operating in the Kurdistan region in Iraq.It acts under the command of the
Kurdish National Assembly and theKurdistan Regional Government [ [http://www.hrw.org/reports/1993/WR93/Mew-04.htm Mew ] ] .Its official goals according to the Kurdistan authority are:
*Counter-Drug trafficking
*Counter-Terrorism
*Counter-Espionage
*Gathering intelligence
*Assessing threats to Iraq’s national securityThe organization has jurisdiction over:
*Economic crimes
*Smuggling
*Political crimes
*Espionage
*Sabotage
*Terrorism ee also
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Kurdistan
*Peshmerga Reference
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