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Middle East Review of International Affairs
Iraq's Security and Intelligence Network; A Guide and Analysis
by Ibrahim al-Marashi
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Abstract
Ensuring the survival of President Saddam Hussein are five primary agencies that make up the Iraqi security apparatus: Special Security, General Security, General Intelligence, Military Intelligence and Military Security. In addition to preventing coups and protecting Saddam, these agencies, whose duties largely overlap, maintain internal domestic security and conduct foreign operations. These intelligence agencies along with the Bah Party organizations and select units of the military form Saddam? security network, permeating every aspect of Iraqi life and ensuring his total control over the state.
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Note *: Ibrahim al-Marashi is a research associate at the Center for Non-Proliferation Studies in Monterey, California as well as a lecturer at the US Naval Postgraduate School. He is currently working on a project on Iraqi intelligence operations in northern Iraq and Kuwait.Back