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"Arther Miller" |
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06 Dec 2003 05:54:33 PM |
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Israel accused over dud Saddam reports |
That was obvious for the begining .....
Israel accused over dud Saddam reports
By Justin Huggler in Jerusalem
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=470589
06 December 2003
Israel was a "full partner" in the intelligence failures that led to
the conclusion that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction before
the US-led invasion, according to a report by an Israeli think-tank.
The findings will re-ignite the speculation over whether Israel was
the "third country" that supplied intelligence used in Tony Blair's
Iraq dossier, claiming Iraq had tried to get "significant quantities
of uranium from Africa".
The report, by a former deputy director of the Israeli military's
planning division, said the demand in the UK and the US for an
investigation into how intelligence agencies concluded that Saddam
Hussein had weapons of mass destruction "forgets there was a third
senior partner to the assessment -- and that third partner was
Israel".
The report said: "Israeli intelligence was a full partner to the
picture presented by US and British intelligence about Iraq's
non-conventional capabilities ... [and] the failures in the war in
Iraq point to inherent failures and weaknesses of Israeli intelligence
and decision makers." It accuses Israel of producing "an exaggerated
assessment of Iraqi capabilities," and raises "the possibility that
the intelligence picture was manipulated".
The report, written by Brigadier-General Shlomo Brun for the Jaffee
Center for Strategic Studies, has caused controversy in Israel. But in
Britain it may fuel speculation surrounding the dossier published by
Mr Blair to justify the war.
US intelligence agencies had discounted the claim about African
uranium due to insufficient evidence. The UK Government defended its
inclusion, saying it had access to information from an unnamed "third
country", which US intelligence had not seen.
In Israel, an opposition MP, Yossi Sarid, has demanded an enquiry into
Israel's intelligence failures before the invasion, in the light of
the report's conclusions.
The report said: "A critical question to be answered is whether
governmental bodies falsely manipulated the intelligence information
in order to gain support for their decision to go to war in Iraq,
while the real reasons for this decision were obfuscated or
concealed."
Brigadier-General Brun said Israel's defence establishment "did not
spare any cost to deal with non-existent threats or threats with zero
possibility of actualization". Israeli intelligence was "taken over by
a mono-dimensional view of Saddam that fundamentally described him as
the embodiment of evil, a man in the grip of an obsession to develop
weapons of mass destruction to harm Israel and others ... There was
absolute indifference to the complexity of considerations that a
leader like Saddam Hussein must have."
Survival was Saddam's main concern, and "such an assessment should
have led to the conclusion that after 1991 developing weapons of mass
destruction could become threatening to his survival."
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06 Dec 2003 08:55:40 PM |
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Subject: Israel accused over dud Saddam reports
From: (Arther Miller)
Date: 12/6/2003 6:54 PM Eastern Standard Time
Message-id: <1451cd92.0312061554.7b6c40a0@posting.google.com>
That was obvious for the begining .....
Israel accused over dud Saddam reports
By Justin Huggler in Jerusalem
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=470589
06 December 2003
Israel was a "full partner" in the intelligence failures that led to
the conclusion that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction before
the US-led invasion, according to a report by an Israeli think-tank.
The findings will re-ignite the speculation over whether Israel was
the "third country" that supplied intelligence used in Tony Blair's
Iraq dossier, claiming Iraq had tried to get "significant quantities
of uranium from Africa".
The report, by a former deputy director of the Israeli military's
planning division, said the demand in the UK and the US for an
investigation into how intelligence agencies concluded that Saddam
Hussein had weapons of mass destruction "forgets there was a third
senior partner to the assessment -- and that third partner was
Israel".
The report said: "Israeli intelligence was a full partner to the
picture presented by US and British intelligence about Iraq's
non-conventional capabilities ... [and] the failures in the war in
Iraq point to inherent failures and weaknesses of Israeli intelligence
and decision makers." It accuses Israel of producing "an exaggerated
assessment of Iraqi capabilities," and raises "the possibility that
the intelligence picture was manipulated".
A lot of people are making a lot of money off of this war. Perle is one of
those individual. The failure of the intelligence might just be open lies for
profit. Our kids die and their kids go to nice colleges.
The report, written by Brigadier-General Shlomo Brun for the Jaffee
Center for Strategic Studies, has caused controversy in Israel. But in
Britain it may fuel speculation surrounding the dossier published by
Mr Blair to justify the war.
US intelligence agencies had discounted the claim about African
uranium due to insufficient evidence. The UK Government defended its
inclusion, saying it had access to information from an unnamed "third
country", which US intelligence had not seen.
In Israel, an opposition MP, Yossi Sarid, has demanded an enquiry into
Israel's intelligence failures before the invasion, in the light of
the report's conclusions.
The report said: "A critical question to be answered is whether
governmental bodies falsely manipulated the intelligence information
in order to gain support for their decision to go to war in Iraq,
while the real reasons for this decision were obfuscated or
concealed."
Brigadier-General Brun said Israel's defence establishment "did not
spare any cost to deal with non-existent threats or threats with zero
possibility of actualization". Israeli intelligence was "taken over by
a mono-dimensional view of Saddam that fundamentally described him as
the embodiment of evil, a man in the grip of an obsession to develop
weapons of mass destruction to harm Israel and others ... There was
absolute indifference to the complexity of considerations that a
leader like Saddam Hussein must have."
Survival was Saddam's main concern, and "such an assessment should
have led to the conclusion that after 1991 developing weapons of mass
destruction could become threatening to his survival."
Doing Insurance business in the Garden State
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