JERUSALEM -- Israeli intelligence overplayed the threat posed by Iraq and reinforced the U.S. and British assessment that Saddam Hussein had large amounts of weapons of mass destruction, a retired Israeli general said Thursday.

The Israeli assessment may have been colored by politics, including a desire to see the Iraqi leader toppled, said Shlomo Brom, who was a senior Israeli military intelligence officer and is now a researcher with Israel's top strategic think tank.

SOURCE:

 http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-israel-iraq-intelligence,0,7105934.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines





Just like they are doing with Iran and Syria right now ...


Here we go again - now it's Iran - Wars for "israel" continue:

 http://www.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=345722&group=webcast



By way of deception, thou shalt do war with Iran:

 http://www.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=346368&group=webcast