“A study produced by Tel Aviv University’s Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies [in November 2003] indicates that Israel’s vaunted intelligence services could find no indication that Iraq possessed banned weapons, despite their location and access to Middle East sources. ‘On the eve of the war [March 2003],’ said the report, ‘Israeli intelligence on Iraqi capabilities resembled its counterparts in the United States and other Western countries. It had not received any information regarding weapons of mass destruction and surface-to-surface missiles for nearly eight years.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– James Bamford, A Pretext for War, Page 309