Israeli General Derides Findings on Iraq

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JERUSALEM - A former Israeli intelligence officer charged Thursday that Israeli agencies produced a flawed picture of Iraqi weapons capabilities on the eve of the Iraq (news - web sites) war and contributed substantially to the mistaken assessments of their counterparts in the United States and Britain. snip

"Israeli intelligence was a full partner with the U.S. and Britain in developing a false picture of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction capability," Brom said. "It badly overestimated the Iraqi threat to Israel and reinforced the American and British belief that the weapons existed."


Brom said a lack of professionalism and poor supervision were major reasons for the Israeli intelligence failure.


"Even if Iraq had any Scud missiles left, I can't understand how Israeli intelligence officers came to believe they threatened Israel, particularly when they hadn't been used in more than 10 years," Brom said. "It's a clear example of how an inability to think clearly is undermining the Israeli intelligence community."

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1. It just keeps getting worse n/t