Military Reconnaissance Department
The Department of Military Reconnaissance ( Arabic شعبة المخابرات العسكرية, DMG Šuʿbat al-muḫābarāt al-ʿaskariyya ) is a Syrian intelligence service founded in 1969 . It is Syria's military intelligence service and is located directly in the Defense Ministry in Damascus .
The service is responsible for
- Military surveillance and operational planning,
- Military and logistical support for Palestinian , Lebanese and Turkish paramilitary groups such as B. Hamas ,
- Monitoring and carrying out attacks on political dissidents abroad,
- Coordination of the Syrian and Lebanese troops in Lebanon until their withdrawal in 2005.
Asif Shaukat , Bashar al-Assad's brother-in-law , took over the management of the service in 2005. In 2009 he was followed by General Abd al-Fattah Qudsiyah as head of the military intelligence service .
Web links
- “Le rapport Mehlis: la Syrie et de hauts responsables libanais officiellement impliqués dans l'assassinat de Rafic Hariri” ( Memento of January 13, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), esisc.org, October 21, 2005
- Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior : Report on the Protection of the Constitution 2004 ( Memento from June 17, 2006 in the Internet Archive ). (PDF file, 254 kB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Rainer Hermann: Secret Services in Syria: Divide, Rule, Murder. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . April 26, 2011 (accessed September 16, 2012)
- ^ Direction du Renseignement Militaire (DRM) , esisc.org.