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Policing Measures on Iraqi Kurds during the Iran Iraq War 1980-1988
Presentation by Ali Dogan (ZMO) at MESA Annual Meeting.
Panel: Exercising State Power in the Middle East
This paper analyses activities of Iraq’s main intelligence agency, the Jihaz Al-Mukhabarat Al-Amma, carried out during the 1980s against the Kurdish opposition. I use this historical material in order to make a specific, theoretical argument about the role that the Jihaz Al-Mukhabarat Al-Amma played for the maintenance of the Iraqi state.
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