The Middle East's Most Powerful Spooks

OMAR SULEIMAN

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Position: Director of Egypt's General Intelligence Service

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MEIR DAGAN

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Position: Director of Israel's Mossad

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QASSEM SULEIMANI

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Position: Commander of the Quds Force, the external wing of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps

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ASSEF SHAWKAT

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Former commander of Syria's military intelligence agency, current deputy chief of staff of the Syrian military

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PRINCE MUQRIN BIN ABDUL-AZIZ

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Position: Director general of Saudi Arabia's General Intelligence Presidency (GIP)

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Ayman al-Zawahiri

Pakisan," al Qaeda", failed extremist movement:

Position: On April 30, 2009, the US State Department reported that Zawahiri had now emerged as the Al Qaeda's operational and strategic commander.

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Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja

PashaPakistain ISI

Position: The Inter-Services Intelligence was created as an independent unit in 1948 in order to strengthen the performance of Pakistan's Military Intelligence during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. It was formerly in the Intelligence Bureau (IB), which handled intelligence sharing between the different branches of the military as well as external intelligence gathering. Its headquarters was initially located in Rawalpindi but later it was moved to Islamabad. The current director of the organization is Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha, who took over in September 2008.

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The Middle East's Most Powerful Spooks

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