mukhabarat

For seven years, he had been administrative director of the Egyptian General Intelligence Service, more popularly known as the mukhabarat — the secret police.

No Tee Time for Zubaid Alex Berenson 2010

He said it protected him from detection by the Syrian security services, also known as mukhabarat.

CNN.com 2011

"eradicators" that is, the mukhabarat, the State apparatus for silencing dissent.

SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator 2009

One man who told me that thugs whom he referred to as "mukhabarat", the security services showed up at his home, accused him of throwing things at police from his windows, and shot him.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

(He declined to give his last name because a mukhabarat, or intelligence agent, was smoking nearby, handgun tucked into his jeans.)

Exodus 2010

Another resident said a group of people met with a member of the mukhabarat, Syria's intelligence forces, who vowed that "if the regime was to go down, it wouldn't go down without a repeat of 1982."

Scarred Syrian City Fears New Attack Nour Malas 2011

They excitedly planned their own revolt farther away from the watchful eye of the mukhabarat, or Arab intelligence agencies.

Syria Revolt Fueled by Roof Fires and Tweets Nour Malas 2011

The tactics of young tech-savvy Kashmiris have already confused and bewildered the Indian government, whose recent actions – censoring the Economist, forcing spying rights out of BlackBerry and Google – evoke the last-minute desperation of the Arab world's mukhabarat secret police states.

In India and Israel, the burden of protest falls on the victims of injustice | Pankaj Mishra 2011

Another resident said a group of people met with a member of the mukhabarat, Syria's intelligence forces, who vowed that "if the regime was to go down, it wouldn't go down without a repeat of 1982."

Scarred Syrian City Fears New Attack Nour Malas 2011

The tactics of young tech-savvy Kashmiris have already confused and bewildered the Indian government, whose recent actions – censoring the Economist, forcing spying rights out of BlackBerry and Google – evoke the last-minute desperation of the Arab world's mukhabarat secret police states.

In India and Israel, the burden of protest falls on the victims of injustice | Pankaj Mishra 2011