JERUSALEM, March 30 (UPI) -- Israel overestimated the Iraq's military threat because of faulty intelligence that was derived from conjecture rather than fact, an investigation found.
Following eight months of closed hearings, a special committee appointed by Israel's Parliament recommended restructuring Israel's intelligence services, including the Mossad, the Baltimore Sun reported.
However, the report of the special committee said there had been no deliberate attempt to falsify information about Iraq and its alleged weapons of mass destruction.
Yuval Steinitz, the chairman of Parliament's Foreign Relations and Defense Committee and head of the special investigative panel, said Israel's was a "a very minor role."
"Israel did not deceive," Steinitz said. "There are no signs of a deliberate deception or distortion of intelligence data. If mistakes were made, they were made innocently."
Steinitz's committee recommended that the Mossad concentrate on foreign intelligence gathering and that the military intelligence agency focus on threats of war.
