Shabak claims it now uses only psychological means, although B ' Tselem and Amnesty International continue to accuse Shabak of employing physical methods that amount to torture under international conventions.

During 1984 – 1986, Shabak experienced a major crisis following the Kav 300 affair in which two terrorists who hijacked a bus and took hostages were executed without trial by Shabak officers, who later covered up the event and conspired to frame a senior IDF officer.

* 1992 – Shabak Samech original members ( Plompy, Mook E., Fuck A, Miro, Assaf B. and Albert ) form the band, then called FFM ( Floating Fat-Man )

* 2000 – Shabak Samech disbands.

* 2003 – Mook E. and Piloni start a record label, Shabak Music.

* 2007 – Shabak Samech reunite and have a reunion concert.

* 2012 – Shabak 5th Album Parra Parra is released in 1st September.

* Shabak – 1995

* Shabak Be ' hofa ' a ( live album ) – 1998

Popular rock band Shabak Samech began rapping in Hebrew in 1995.

Sherut haBitachon haKlali (, General Security Service ), better known by the acronym Shabak (,, ), in English as the Israel Security Agency ( ISA ) or the Shin Bet ( a two-letter Hebrew abbreviation of the name ), is Israel's internal security service.

Responsibility for Shabak activity was later moved from the IDF to the office of the prime minister.

Following the affair, Shabak head Avraham Shalom was forced to resign.

The Landau Commission, set up to investigate Shabak interrogation methods, criticized the organization and established guidelines to regulate what forms of physical pressure could be used on prisoners.

Following the assassination, the Shabak director, Carmi Gillon, resigned preemptively.

In 2000, Ayalon was replaced by Avi Dichter, an ex-Sayeret Matkal commando and an experienced Shabak agent, tightened the working relationship with the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli police.

He turned Shabak into a prominent player in the war on terrorism after the collapse of the 2000 Camp David Summit.

Shabak also extracts information by interrogating suspects, and there is a history of concern over its methods.

Later, in 1999, the Israeli Supreme Court heard several petitions against Shabak methods, including ( 1 ) " forceful and repeated shaking of the suspect's upper torso, in a manner which causes the neck and head to swing rapidly ," ( 2 ) manacling of the suspect in a painful " Shabach position " for a long period of time, ( 3 ) the " frog crouch " consisting of " consecutive, periodical crouches on the tips of one's toes ," and other methods.

The Court ruled that Shabak did not have the authority, even under the defense of " necessity ," to employ such methods.

Shabak has also worked closely with the Israeli Air Force in " targeted killings " of field commanders and senior leaders of Palestinian militant factions of Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, and Fatah.

These killings, are usually done by helicopter gunships, where both IAF commanders and Shabak agents sit together in the command center monitoring the operation.

Once considered a commitment to lifelong anonymity and even invisibility in Israeli society, today a Shabak agent who achieves high rank in the service, especially the director, is considered a candidate for membership in the top brass of the Israeli government and business community.

In the Shabak and the foreign intelligence Mossad service, the trend showed up much later ( during the mid-1990s ), even though Isser Harel ( who served as head of both services ) and Meir Amit of the Mossad both served as lawmakers.

* Shabak ( Israel Security Agency ) Sherut HaBitahon HaKlali (, " General Security Agency "): the organization responsible for internal security, including in the Israeli-occupied territories.

Known for daring day time raids and the brazen ability to surface in the most volatile Arab areas, Yamas does not follow regular military or police command structure and answers directly to the Shabak.

On June 15, The Israeli press reported that the Shabak arrested a Palestinian militant cell in Nablus during the previous month.

Carmi Gillon ( born January 1950 ) () is an Israeli politician, and a former Israeli ambassador to Denmark and head of Shabak, the Internal General Security Service of Israel.

Chemi Arzi, one of the band members, recalls, “‘ They said you just can ’ t rap in Hebrew ; it doesn ’ t sound good .’” Shabak Samech continued to produce Hebrew-language rap songs in efforts to promote this new style of Hebrew and Mediterranean hip hop.

The CIA's Special Activities Division created successful guerrilla forces from the Hmong tribe during the war in Vietnam in the 1960s, from the Northern Alliance against the Taliban during the war in Afghanistan in 2001, and from the Kurdish Peshmerga against Ansar al-Islam and the forces of Saddam Hussein during the war in Iraq in 2003.

In the northern Syrian, eastern Anatolian region of the Levant, Natufian culture at Cayonu and Mureybet developed the first fully agricultural culture with the addition of wild grains, later being supplemented with domesticated sheep and goats, which were probably domesticated first by the Zarzian culture of Northern Iraq and Iran ( which like the Natufian culture may have also developed from Kebaran ).

Assyria was a Semitic Akkadian kingdom in what is now Northern Iraq, extant as a nation state from the late 25th or early – 24th century BC to 608 BC.

During his tour with the 24th MEU, he participated in Operation Provide Comfort in Northern Iraq and Turkey.

The Empire fell into anarchy ; the Safavid Empire invaded Iraq almost immediately, Northern Anatolia erupted in revolts, and in 1631 the Janissaries stormed the palace and killed the Grand Vizier, among others.

The campaign takes its name from Surat al-Anfal in the Qur ' an, which was used as a code name by the former Iraqi Ba ' athist administration for a series of attacks against the peshmerga rebels and the mostly Kurdish civilian population of rural Northern Iraq, conducted between 1986 and 1989 culminating in 1988.

Observed effects of the eruption include the following anecdotal accounts: dry fog in France ; lunar eclipses in England ; severe winter in Europe ; a " harsh " spring in Northern Iceland ; famine in England, Western Germany, France, and Northern Italy ; and pestilence in London, parts of France, Austria, Iraq, Syria, and South-East Turkey.

These are, the reduction in gun crime in Northern Ireland ( which led to guns coming from there to the criminal black market in England ); guns ( official issue or confiscated ) acquired by military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan ; and guns coming from Eastern Europe after the fall of the iron curtain.

He reported the Northern Ireland troubles in the 1970s, the Portuguese Revolution in 1974, the Lebanese Civil War, the Iranian revolution in 1979, the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the Iran – Iraq War, the Gulf War, the Bosnian War, the Algerian Civil War, the Kosovo War, the 2001 international intervention in Afghanistan and the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

The Muslims were terrified and were quite convinced that the Byzantine would occupy whole of Syria, Egypt, Al-Jazira ( Northern Iraq ), Diyar Bakr etc.

* On March 23, 2003 A co 3 / 75 Ranger Regiment conducted a combat jump into Northern Iraq, to seize a desert airfield.

* On March 26, 2003 the U. S. 173rd Airborne Brigade conducted a combat jump into Northern Iraq, during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, to seize an airfield and support special forces: Task Force Viking.

Members of the Reserve Forces and cadet organizations join in with the marching, alongside volunteers from St John Ambulance, paramedics from the London Ambulance Service, and conflict veterans from World War II, Korea, the Falklands, the Persian Gulf, Kosovo, Bosnia, Northern Ireland, Iraq, other past conflicts and the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan.

* List of cemeteries in Northern Iraq

* Operation Northern Lights, a 2006 U. S. military operation in Iraq

On December 5, Vilsack announced that he favored withdrawing most of the U. S. forces from Iraq and leaving a small force in the Northern region for a limited period.

These skills provide vital components in the Army's operational capability, and Royal Engineers are currently deployed in Afghanistan, Iraq, Cyprus, Bosnia, Kosovo, Kenya, Brunei, Falklands, Belize, Germany and Northern Ireland.

* 954 soldiers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, commanded by COL William C. Mayville, conducted a combat jump into Northern Iraq onto Bashur Airfield.

* Kurdish militia, aided by U. S. forces, move into Kanilan near Mosul in Northern Iraq.

Commissioned artists include Ken Howard, Linda Kitson, John Keane, Peter Howson, Steve McQueen ( see Queen and Country ) and Langlands & Bell, responding to conflicts in Northern Ireland, the Falklands, the Persian Gulf, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan.

* Both major parties of Kurdistan, an autonomous region in Northern Iraq, vow to fight Turkish troops if they enter Kurdistan to capture Mosul or interfere in Kurdish self-rule.

Between them the two parties can mobilize up to 80, 000 guerillas – most likely no match for the modern Turkish army, but a severe blow to the unity of U. S. allies on the Northern front expected in the U. S. plan to invade Iraq.