The A to Z of Middle Eastern Intelligence by Ephraim Kahana & Muhammad Suwaed

Author:Ephraim Kahana & Muhammad Suwaed
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2009-03-12T16:00:00+00:00

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JABALI, GHAZI AL-. Ghazi al-Jabali was the Gaza Strip chief of the Preventive Security Service, appointed by the Palestinian National Authority in 1994. In February 2004, a gunfight erupted between his police officers and forces loyal to Muhammad Dahlan. In March 2004, his offices were targeted by gunfire. In April 2004, a bomb was detonated, destroying the front of his house. In July 2004, al-Jabali was kidnapped at gunpoint following an ambush of his convoy and the wounding of two bodyguards. He was released several hours later. Following his kidnapping, Yasser Arafat dismissed al-Jabali from his post. He was also a member of the Central Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. In 1998, Israel demanded his transfer to Israeli custody, accusing him of coordinating Palestinian attacks on Israel. See also PALESTINIAN NATIONAL AUTHORITY INTELLIGENCE.

JALIL, TAHIR (1950– ). General Tahir Jalil al-Habbush was born in Tikrit. In 1997, Jalil was appointed by Saddam Hussein to replace Taha Abbas as the commander of Iraq’s Directorate of General Security (DGS). He served in this position until 1999, when he was replaced by Rafi Tilfah. Jalil was then appointed director of the Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS). After the 2003 Operation Iraqi Freedom, Jalil was listed as wanted by U.S. forces in Iraq. Rumors spread that Jalil had succeeded in escaping to France on a counterfeit passport. The French authorities announced that if they were able to trace him, his passport would be cancelled and he would be arrested. It remains unclear whether Jalil entered France or found asylum in Syria. See also IRAQI DIRECTORATE OF GENERAL MILITARY INTELLIGENCE; IRAQI SPECIAL SECURITY ORGANIZATION.

JEWISH AGENCY IN EGYPT. During the 1936 Great Arab Revolt in Palestine, many Middle Eastern countries, including Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq, were involved in supporting the Palestinians in Palestine. In Egypt, this effort was led by the Muslim Brotherhood, which was founded in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna. At the beginning of the revolt, there was no attempt made by the Jewish Agency in Palestine to collect any information about the involvement of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Political Department of the Jewish Agency was satisfied with the intelligence work being supplied by its agent in Egypt, Nahum Wilensky, and took action in Palestine based on that information. Wilensky was a journalist who was assigned by the Jewish Agency to cover the events unfolding in Egypt.

After Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini’s escape from Palestine to Lebanon in the fall of 1937, the number of Palestinian and Syrian exiles in Egypt increased. Two Palestinian exiles, Abed al-Hadi and Munaif al-Husseini, were directing the main activities of the Palestinian struggle in Egypt, including a campaign to disseminate propaganda and collect funds for the cause. The Political Department in Jerusalem authorized Wilensky to enlarge his activities by recruiting local human sources in Egypt. Wilensky became intensively engaged in conducting surveillance on the movements and activities of the Palestinian and Syrian exiles in Egypt. He obtained his information from open sources as well as from secret agents in Egypt.

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