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((for|the previous Iraqi domestic intelligence agency|Directorate of General Security))
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| nativename = Mudiriyat al-Amn al-Amma
| nativename_a = مديرية الامن العامة
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| formed = January 2004
| preceding1 = [[Directorate of General Security|al-Amn al-‘Amm]] (internal, secret police)
| preceding2 =  [[Iraqi Intelligence Service|Mukhabarat]] (external)
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The '''General Security Directorate''' ('''GSD''') (مديرية الامن العامة, ''Mudiriyat al-Amn al-Amma'') was the [[intelligence agency]] of [[Iraq]]. Although details on its organisation were not made clear at the time, the General Security Directorate's designated mission was to "infiltrate and annihilate Iraq's tenacious insurgency".<ref name="GS">((cite web | url=https://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/world/iraq/gsd.htm | title=General Security Directorate ))</ref>

The GSD was eventually replaced by the [[Iraqi National Intelligence Service]].

==History==
After the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, [[Paul Bremer|L. Paul Bremer]] disbanded [[Saddam Hussein]]'s military and security services, including the [[Iraqi Intelligence Service|Mukhabarat]]. As the security situation within Iraq deteriorated and Iraqi resistance to the occupation became stronger and more violent, the need for a secret service became more pressing. In December 2003, the ''[[Washington Post]]'' reported, Iyad Allawi and [[Nouri Badran]], two members of the [[Iraq Interim Governing Council|Interim Governing Council]] and [[Iraqi National Accord]] officials, flew to the US to discuss details of setting up a new secret service with the help of the [[CIA]]. The agency was to be headed by Badran and recruit many agents of Saddam's Mukhabarat. The main objective of the new organisation was to counter the insurgency.<ref name=Wapo031211>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110514000120/http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A54518-2003Dec10&notFound=true Iraq Spy Service Planned by U.S. To Stem Attacks: CIA Said to Be Enlisting Hussein Agents], ''[[Washington Post]]'', December 11, 2003</ref>

In January 2004, the ''[[New York Times]]'' reported that the creation of the new agency was under way. It was to employ between 500 and 2,000 staff and be financed by the U.S. government. [[Ibrahim al-Janabi]] was said to be the main candidate for leading the spy agency. These efforts drew criticism from [[Ahmed Chalabi]], another formerly exiled Iraqi politician who had good connections with the CIA, who voiced worries that the new agency might be used for the restoration of the old Ba'athist security apparatus and follow the well-established pattern of government repression.

In March 2004, L. Paul Bremer announced the creation of the [[Iraqi National Intelligence Service]], headed by [[Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed al-Shahwani]] and replaced the GSD. The INIS is funded from secret funds set aside within the Iraq appropriation approved by the US Congress. These secret funds, totalling $3 billion over three years, are said to be destined for covert CIA operations within Iraq (as well as, to a small extent, [[Afghanistan]]).<ref name=GlobalSecurity>[http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2003/031212-iraq.htm Phoenix Rising] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040923012850/http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2003/031212-iraq.htm |date=2004-09-23 )), ''[[The American Prospect]]'', January 1, 2004</ref>

In June 2004, it was reported that the GSD also included ex-[[Iraqi Intelligence Service]] agents.<ref name="Janes">((cite web | url=http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/jid/jid040722_1_n.shtml | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061017111739/http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/jid/jid040722_1_n.shtml | archive-date=2006-10-17 | title=Back to the past in Iraq ))</ref> It was announced by interim Prime Minister [[Iyad Allawi]] at a press conference in July 2004 in a climate of widespread violence by [[terrorism|terrorist]] groups and the [[Iraqi insurgency (Iraq War)|Iraqi insurgency]].<ref name="Age">((cite web | url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/allawi-sets-up-spy-agency-20040717-gdy9ts.html | title=Allawi sets up spy agency | date=17 July 2004 ))</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Defunct Iraqi intelligence agencies]]
[[Category:Organizations disestablished in 2004]]
[[Category:2004 establishments in Iraq]]
[[Category:2004 disestablishments in Iraq]]

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