Israelis 'misread' Iraqi threat
by BBC News

Israeli intelligence miscalculated the threat posed by Saddam Hussein, an Israeli think-tank has suggested.

"Israeli intelligence was a full partner with the US and Britain in developing a false picture of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction capability," said the author of the report, retired Brigadier General Shlomo Brom.

"It badly overestimated the Iraqi threat to Israel and reinforced the American and British belief that the weapons existed."

"If Israeli intelligence had argued Iraq did not have capabilities and there was no real threat, it would have had some effect," he said.

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