Da'irat al-Muchabarat al-Amma

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Da'irat al-Muchabarat al-Amma ( Arabic دائرة المخابرات العامة, DMG dāʾirat al-muḫābarāt al-ʿāmma ; English General Intelligence Directorate , or GID for short ) is the Jordanian intelligence service . The GID is considered one of the most important intelligence services in the Middle East and is considered to be the most professional and efficient intelligence service in the Arab world.

Relations with the CIA are so good that the CIA liaison officer in Amman has free, unaccompanied access to the fortress-like headquarters of the GID. Relations with the Mossad , the Israeli foreign intelligence service, are also good.

Known activities

The Jordanian secret service is considered a particularly important tool in the fight against violent Islamism . He has repeatedly succeeded in smuggling informants into terrorist organizations.

There were also setbacks: Homam Khaleel Mohammad Abu Mallal, a Jordanian doctor , was reportedly recruited by the Jordanian intelligence service to infiltrate al Qaeda in Afghanistan and obtain information crucial to the US military operation in Afghanistan. Instead, the 33-year-old Jordanian turned against the Americans: he was wearing an explosives belt under his clothes when he went to meet America's agents on New Year's Eve 2009 at Forward Operating Base Chapman in eastern Afghanistan near Khowst . He tore seven CIA agents and his Jordanian command officer , Sharif Ali bin Zeid, to their deaths. Among the CIA agents killed was the second-highest CIA representative in Afghanistan.

In 2006, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture documented the use of torture by the Jordanian Intelligence Service.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jordan emerges as key CIA counterterrorism ally. The Washington Post January 4, 2010, archived from the original June 12, 2013 ; accessed on January 1, 2011 (eng).
  2. ↑ Al Qaeda's Desert Inn: Hard time. (No longer available online.) US News & World Report , May 25, 2003, archived from the original on November 22, 2005 ; accessed on January 1, 2011 (eng). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.usnews.com
  3. ↑ Ken Silverstein ( Los Angeles Times ) and Bruce Tefft: Clandestine Ties to Jordan Aid CIA Operations in Middle East. Mail-Archive.com, November 11, 2005, accessed January 1, 2011 (eng).
  4. ^ US and Jordan intelligence services pay the price of secrecy. (No longer available online.) The National, United Arab Emirates, January 9, 2010, archived from the original on February 6, 2011 ; accessed on January 1, 2011 (eng). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thenational.ae
  5. ↑ Double Agent Al Balawi: The Deceiver. Der Tagesspiegel , January 6, 2010, accessed on January 1, 2011 .
  6. ↑ CIA takes revenge with rocket strikes in Pakistan. World Socialist Web Site January 8, 2010, archived from the original January 6, 2011 ; Retrieved January 1, 2011 .
  7. ↑ Manfred Nowak: Torture - the everydayness of the incomprehensible. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-218-00833-4 , Jordan: The secret service as a haven of torture. Pp. 107-112; In the antechamber of Hell profil.at, accessed on February 11, 2013
  8. ^ Jordan Atlas of Torture, accessed February 11, 2013

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