JERUSALEM - Erroneous Israeli warnings about Iraq (news - web sites)'s weapons of mass destruction ahead of last year's U.S.-led invasion were based on speculation, not fact, parliamentary investigators said Sunday, but stressed that intelligence agencies had not tried to mislead Israel's Western allies.
A report released Sunday said Israeli intelligence concluded there was a high probability that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) possessed weapons of mass destruction, despite little evidence backing that assessment, the report said. Estimates of Iraq's weapons arsenal also increased inexplicably ahead of the war, the report found.
"The committee ... did not find any signs that show an attempt to distort the intelligence picture in order to stress the necessity of going to war," it said.
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