Agency Name: | Intelligence of the Jamahiriya |
Nativename: | Mukhabarat el-Jamahiriya |
Dissolved: | 2011 |
Jurisdiction: | Government of Libya |
Headquarters: | Tripoli, Libya |
Chief1 Name: | Ali Itbigah |
Chief1 Position: | Head of the agency |
Parent Agency: | Independent |
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, the agency ceased to exist when the Jamahiriya was toppled in October 2011.
In 1988, the agency was accused of causing the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people.
The Intelligence Community under Interim Government: