'Arafat gave Saddam info on Israel^

Saddam's intelligence service collected information on sites in Israel that could be potential targets for attacks, a paper claims.

The information emerged following the release of documents captured during the American invasion in 2003, Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz reported on Sunday.

The decision to make the report available is part of a program in US military academy at West Point to evaluate the lessons of the war in Iraq, added Ha'aretz.

The Americans captured more than 600,000 intelligence items, including thousands of hours of video and sound recordings but only 15 percent was fully translated into English, it noted.

According to the report, the paper claimed, Force 17, the security force of Yasser Arafat was among the sources providing intelligence to Saddam's regime.