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CHART: the Iraqi Security Apparatus Fedayin Saddam al-Haris al-Jamhuri al-Khas The Iraqi Security Apparatus Uday Hussein [Special Republican Guard] ~ 15,000 in 13 battalions IRAQI SECURITYAPPARATUS Ministry of Defense Presided by: Saddam Hussein Ali Hassan al-Majid Jihaz al-Himaya al-Khasa [Special Protection Apparatus] Presidential Secretary: Abid Hamid Mahmud Hizb al-Ba’th al-’Arab al-Ishtiraki [Arab Socialist Ba’thParty] Office of Presidential Facilities Al-Majils al-Qawmi [National Security Council] Presided by: Qusay Hussein Office of Special Republican Guard Security Bureau Amn al-Hizb Al-Jaysh al-Sha’bi [Party Security] [People’s Army] Special Office Director-General al-Amn al-Khas [Special Security] ~ 5,000 members Operations Office Political Bureau Presided by: Qusay Hussein Military Brigade Public Opinion Office al-Amn al-’Amm [General Security] al-Mukhabarat [General Intelligence] al-Istikhbarat [Military Intelligence] al-Amn al-’Askari [Military Security] ~8,000 members ~ 8,000 members ~ 4,000-6,000 members ~ 6,000 members Presided by: Rafi Talfah Presided by: Tahir al-Habbush Presided by: Ayad Ujayli Presided by: Thabit al-Takriti Security Office Technical Directorate Director’s Office Political Regional Special Bureau Security Unit Investigations Bureau Bureaus Directorate Al-Quwat al-Tawari’ [Emergency Forces] Opposition Battalions Military Brigade Regional HQ’s (manthumat): Special Bureau Regional Bureaus - Kirkuk (N. Iran border and Kurdish region) - Mosul (Turkey and Syria) - Basra (Gulf States and S. Iran border) Directorate 5: Political Bureau - Baghdad (Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia and central Iranian border) Security Unit Directorate 4: Secret Service Directorate 21: Baghdad Directorate 9: External Activities Directorate 23: Southern District (HQ/ Basra) Directorate 24: Northern District (HQ/ Mosul) Compiled by: Anjali Bhattacharjee Directorate 25: Western District (HQ/ Ramadi) Directorate 26:Eastern District (HQ/ Karbala - Adapted from: Ibrahim Al-Marashi, “Iraq’s Governate) Security and Intel Network”, MERIA, Sept. 2002.
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