Mukhabarat el-Jamahiriya ( ar, مخابرات الجماهيرية)
(Intelligence of the
Jamahiriya
The Third International Theory () was the style of government proposed by Muammar Gaddafi in the early 1970s, on which his government, the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, was officially based. It was partly inspired by Isl ...
) was the national
intelligence service
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Means of informatio ...
of
Libya
Libya (; ar, ليبيا, Lībiyā), officially the State of Libya ( ar, دولة ليبيا, Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Suda ...
under
Muammar Gaddafi. During the
Libyan Civil War
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, agency director
Abuzed Omar Dorda was captured by
anti-Gaddafi forces, the agency ceased to exist when the Jamahiriya was toppled in August 2011.
In 1988, the agency was accused of causing the bombing of
Pan Am Flight 103 over
Lockerbie,
Scotland
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, killing 270 people.
Successor
The Intelligence Community under Interim Government:
* External Security Service
* Internal Security Service
* General Directorate of Military Intelligence
References
External links
Libyan Intelligencefrom GlobalSecurity.org
First Libyan Civil War
Government of Libya
Libyan intelligence agencies
History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi
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